CONGRATULATIONS, YOU’VE REWRITTEN HISTORY — and CHANGED THE WORLD! What does it mean?
A phrase often attributed to Winston Churchill, but found in literature in 1842 is “The history is right perhaps, but let us not forget, it was written by the victors”.
The Definitive Truths of the World is an interactive installation that encourages the user to think about how easily history and even science can be manipulated. The project uses the principles and tactics used by the oppressive regime in George Orwell’s 1984 to illustrate how close we are to a dystopian reality:
- Newspeak: simplified speech strikingly similar to shortened version of how we text/our slang
- Constant revision of history
- Claiming the revised fact is the ”DEFINITIVE” truth
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