A new exhibit at the Target Gallery at the MIA addresses how current technology effects how we see truth and sort through reality.
The exhibition title truthiness comes from a comedic segment of The Colbert Report where Stephen Colbert indirectly bashes president Bush's decision to invade Iraq. The exhibition focuses on new forms of media such as second life and video chatting. The show asks questions about how we take in information and how we believe what we believe. One piece graphically shows an artist who fakes his death and shows it on a video chatroom and the piece shows the reaction of the viewers.
Most people don't believe what is on the internet, yet the show describes, especially with the pieces from second life, how we want to believe what is on the internet and the computer. Most of the pieces try to blur the distinction between fiction and reality.
The show is up until June 9th, 2013.
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