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Breaking the News

Franc Archive, winner of the Noorderlicht Award 2024, explores how algorithms manipulate the news in this installation. Franc, the artist’s alter ego, creates fake news headlines and manipulates photos to deliver socio-political commentary. 

The installation features over a hundred generative news items displayed across screens suspended from scaffolding. The work powerfully illustrates how algorithms dictate what we see and don’t see, raising questions about the reliability of news in the digital domain and on social media.

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