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SuPerVillainizer - Conspiracy Client
Website, 2002


Kunstuniversität Linz
06.09 from 13:30 to 19:00
07.09 to 11.09 from 10:00 to 19:00


www.supervillainizer.ch

*SuPerVillainizer* is an interactive Web project that takes a stand against thinking in terms of the cliché-ridden images of the bad guys that are the basis of new surveillance scenarios. By generating artificial villains, *SuPerVillainizer* calls conventional concepts of friend and foe into question. The way it does this is by designing profiles of desperados, rogues and scapegoats, setting them up with real e-mail accounts at Swiss providers, getting them hooked up in conspiracies and then watching how the rogues start passing conspiracy content generated by *SuPerVillainizer* back and forth to each other. Users can have input into the conspiratorial e-mails and choose the language of the conspiracy. In this way, the carefully planned surveillance databanks get infiltrated, bewildered and filled up with conspiratorial connections.

LAN / Annina Rüst

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