<b><font color="#000000"><span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span><span><span><span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><u>For immediate release:</u></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></b>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial"><span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span><span><span><span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font> </div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial"><span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span><span><span><span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font> </div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial"><span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span><span><span><span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Lisboa 20 <span>Arte Contemporânea is launching tomorrow, <u>November 14th</u>, <b><span>LX</span> <span>2.0</span> Project</b>'s</span><span> <span>new</span> commission, the piece<b> Google Is not The Map</b> by <b>Les Liens Invisibles</b> </span>(<a title="http://www.lisboa20.pt/lx20" href="https://webmail.netcabo.pt/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.lisboa20.pt/lx20" target="_blank">http://www.lisboa20.pt/lx20</a>).<span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></div>
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<span></span> <br><br><br></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br><i>"The
world is my idea": this is a truth which holds good for everything that
lives and knows, though man alone can bring it into reflective and
abstract consciousness.<br>
<br>Arthur Schopenhauer from "The world as will and representation"<br></i>
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<br>Since ancient times cartography has been used to describe the world
as a geometric ensemble of measurable points, lines, areas and<br>
data-labels on a plane.<br>
While the world slowly fades away in an increasingly multiplication of
self-representations, the map making process - missing its real
reference - becomes nothing more than an empty-meaning abstract
practice: so, what do all those maps stand now for?<br>
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In order to disclose this contradiction - or just to give a paradoxical point of view about it - the imaginary art-group <b>Les Liens<br>
Invisibles</b> has explored the world along its self-referential techno-linguistic layers, moving through its hidden mechanisms and<br>
forcing the grammar of its public-released API code.<br>
<br>Commissioned by <b>LX 2.0</b> - a project by Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporănea and curated by Luis Silva - <b>Google Is Not The Map (GISNTM)</b> is a collection of over 35 <i>GeoPoeMaps</i>,
a series of works in which ordinary maps become the unusual surfaces
used to disarticulate the perception of the world, to trace new routes
across the boundaries and to draw new imaginary geometries of the
possible.<br><br><b>Les Liens Invisibles</b> (<a href="http://www.lesliensinvisibles.org/">http://www.lesliensinvisibles.org/</a>) is an imaginary art group from Italy. It is comprised of media artists Clemente Pestelli and Gionatan Quintini. Their artworks are based on the invisible links between the infosphere, neural synapsis and real life.<br>
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Links and routes to nowhere<br>
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^<br>
<br>
Google is not the map<br>
> <a href="http://google.isnotthemap.net/" target="_blank">http://google.isnotthemap.net</a><br>
<br>
A map is not the map<br>
> <a href="http://map.isnotthemap.net/" target="_blank">http://map.isnotthemap.net</a> (for credits, info and linear maps index)<br>
<br>
Poetry is not the map<br>
> <a href="http://poetry.isnotthemap.net/" target="_blank">http://poetry.isnotthemap.net</a> (for silly poems about map statements)<br>
<br>
Press is not the map<br>
> <a href="http://press.isnotthemap.net/" target="_blank">http://press.isnotthemap.net</a> (press area)<br>
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Contact is not the map<br>
> <a href="http://contact.isnotthemap.net/" target="_blank">http://contact.isnotthemap.net</a> (contact area)<br>
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Credits<br>
^ ^ ^ ^<br>
A project by Les Liens Invisibles<br>
> <a href="http://www.lesliensinvisibles.org/" target="_blank">http://www.lesliensinvisibles.org</a><br>
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Commissioned by LX 2.0, a project by Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporânea<br>
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