''The War Of The Worlds'' which was broadcast in the style of a breaking-news report in October 1938, and led many to believe in an ongoing Martian invasion despite a broadcast disclaimer.
Another example are the "snouters" ''
Nasobēm'' (or
Rhinogradentia
Rhinogradentia is a fictitious order of shrew-like mammals invented by German zoologist Gerolf Steiner. Members of the order, known as rhinogrades or snouters, are characterized by a nose-like feature called a "nasorium", which evolved to fu ...
), an order of animals invented by the German poet
Christian Morgenstern
Christian Otto Josef Wolfgang Morgenstern (6 May 1871 – 31 March 1914) was a German author and poet from Munich. Morgenstern married Margareta Gosebruch von Liechtenstern on 7 March 1910. He worked for a while as a journalist in Berlin ...
in 1905 and then introduced into scholarly publication by the (''fictitious'') naturalist Prof. Harald Stümpke (1957).
Practice
Artists employing superfictions as a focus or significant part of their practice include:
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AA Bronson
AA Bronson (born Michael Tims in Vancouver in 1946) is an artist. He was a founding member of the artists' group General Idea, was president and director of Printed Matter, Inc., and started the NY Art Book Fair and the LA Art Book Fair.
Earl ...
–
General Idea
General Idea was a collective of three Canadian artists, Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson, who were active from 1967 to 1994.
As pioneers of early conceptual and media-based art, their collaboration became a model for artist-initiated ac ...
– (1969–1994)
Lyndell Brown and Charles Green– paintings of fictional worlds (since 1993)
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Kay Burns – performative lectures as the fictitious researcher/ethnographer Iris Taylor; and founder/curator of the Museum of the Flat Eart
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Janet Cardiff
Janet Cardiff (born March 15, 1957) is a Canadian artist who works chiefly with sound and sound installations, often in collaboration with her husband and partner George Bures Miller. Cardiff first gained international recognition in the art worl ...
– many audio-walks that superimpose fiction and experience since the mid-1990s
Paradise Institute(2001)
*"et al." – e.g
The Fundamental Practice(2005)
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– e.g
Secret Fauna(since 1987)
*Rodney Glick – e.g
(since 1989)
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Iris Häussler
Iris Haeussler (or German spelling 'Häussler') (; born April 6, 1962) is a conceptual and installation art artist of German origin. She lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Many of Iris Haeussler's works are detailed, hyperrealistic installations ...
– many "fictitious memories", constructed living spaces of fictional personae (since 1989)
*Oren Herschander â€
The Mountweazel Research Collection an archive featuring a variety of material related to the life and work of American photographer and
fictitious entry
Fictitious or fake entries are deliberately incorrect entries in reference works such as dictionaries, encyclopedias (including Wikipedia), maps, and directories. There are more specific terms for particular kinds of fictitious entry, such as Moun ...
, Lillian Virginia Mountweazel.
*Peter Hill â€
Museum of Contemporary Ideas(since 1989)
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Damien Hirst
Damien Steven Hirst (; né
Brennan; born 7 June 1965) is an English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector. He is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. He is reportedly the United Kingd ...
– ''Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable'' (2017)
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Res Ingold
Res Ingold (born 1954 in Burgdorf, Switzerland) is a Swiss contemporary artist.
He is known for his superfiction airline company Ingold Airlines he started in 1982.
Res Ingold is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich.
Exhibitions and ac ...
– e.g
Ingold Airlines(1982)
– Shelly Innocence is a former supermodel, international athlete and in-store demonstrator marketing Happiness™, Integrity™ and other intangible products. 2005
IRFAKFat to Food Recycling, Glocal Affairs 2008, Mieke Smits
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Martin Kippenberger
Martin Kippenberger (25 February 1953 – 7 March 1997) was a German artist known for his extremely prolific output in a wide range of styles and media, superfiction as well as his provocative, jocular and hard-drinking public persona.
Kippenbe ...
– inventions of fictional artists in the 1980s, within a much broader oeuvre of painting
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Eve Andree Laramee has exhibited works credited t
Yves Fissialt a fictional scientist with some elements based on the artist's father
Eve Andrée Laramée
*Dr James Lattin – founder and curator of th
Museum of Imaginative Knowledge*The Leeds 13 – staging a fictional vacation paid for by real sponsor's and grants funds for their Leeds University Fine Arts Degree project (1999)
*Seymour Likely – a fictitious artist invented by Aldert Mantje, Ronald Hooft and Ido Vunderink
*Beauvais Lyons – Professor of Art at University of Tennessee and curator of th
Hokes Archiveswhich includes the Association for Creative Zoology, Hokes Medical Arts and the Spelvin Collection among others.
Mish Meijersan
Tricky Walshpresent The Collecto
Henri Papin*
Rebekah Modrak
Rebekah Modrak is an American artist, author, and educator, born in 1971, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
She studied painting and photography at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, in Alfred, New York and subsequently ...
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ReMade Co a fictional artisanal plunger company masquerading as a real company.
*Patrick Nagatani â€
A series of photographs documenting proof of a worldwide ancient automobile culture.
*Philip R. Obermarck â€
The Gammon Collection(2012), a collection of artifacts and items recovered from the ''Great Plains Society for the Dissemingation of Information and Education''.
*Eve-Anne O'Regan – BabyFace
Eugene Parnell– e.g
Lost Naturalists of the Pacific(2005)
*Patrick Pound – e.g
(2002)
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Walid Raad
Walid Raad (Ra'ad) (Arabic: وليد رعد) (born 1967 in Chbanieh, Lebanon) is a contemporary media artist. The Atlas Group is a fictional collective, the work of which is produced by Walid Raad. He lives and works in New York, where he is curr ...
's â€
Atlas Group Archives– a fictional world of fish
*Michael Vale – Le Chien Qui Fume (2002 onwards). An historical satire that positions an icon of early 20th. century kitsch, the smoking dog, as an integral, but forgotten player in the history of Surrealism.
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Jeff Wassmann
Jeff Wassmann (born April 2, 1958) is an American artist, writer and theorist, currently living in Melbourne, Australia. His first novel, ''The Buzzard'', was released in October 2012. Wassmann's art work incorporates assemblage (art), assemblage ...
– an American artist working under the nom de plume of the pioneering German modernist
Johann Dieter Wassmann
Johann Dieter Wassmann (1841–1898) is a fictitious artist and sewerage engineer, purportedly from Leipzig, Saxony, in east-central Germany. He is the creation of the American-born artist and writer Jeff Wassmann. As a result of the widespread ...
(1841-1898)
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David Wilson –
The Museum of Jurassic Technology
The Museum of Jurassic Technology at 9341 Venice Boulevard in the Palms, Los Angeles, Palms district of Los Angeles, California, was founded by David Hildebrand Wilson and Diana Drake Wilson in 1988.Tony Perrottet" The Museum of Jurassic Technology ...
founded in 1989, Los Angeles
Alexa Wright– photography, including the depiction of
Phantom limb
A phantom limb is the sensation that an amputated or missing limb is still attached. Approximately 80 to 100% of individuals with an amputation experience sensations in their amputated limb. However, only a small percentage will experience painf ...
s
After Image1997) and other works that combine and superimpose visual artefact and documentation
See also
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Alternate reality game
An alternate reality game (ARG) is an interactive networked narrative that uses the real world as a platform and employs transmedia storytelling to deliver a story that may be altered by players' ideas or actions.
The form is defined by inten ...
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Conceptual art
Conceptual art, also referred to as conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns. Some works of conceptual art, sometimes called insta ...
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Fictive art Fictive art is a practice that involves the production of objects, events, and entities designed to support the plausibility of a central narrative. Fictive art projects disguise their fictional essence by incorporating materials that stand as evide ...
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Installation art
Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called ...
External links
Museum of Contemporary IdeasMuseum of Jurassic TechnologyMuseumZeitraum Leipzig
Art movements
Fiction