futurism

The zeitgeist-defining moment came last year when The Verge and Futurism busted multi-tentacled media vampire Red Ventures in a ripping series of stories.

Futurism reports that AdVon, a “content solutions” company which published scores of articles by fictional writers in Sports Illustrated, ultimately leading to its publisher losing the rights to the name Sports Illustrated, placed work in Hollywood Life and Us Weekly, as well as the Miami Herald and Los Angeles Times.

Screenshots from AdVon’s content management system acquired by Futurism suggest that the company has published over 90,000 articles for hundreds of publications.

“Ways people do that are with materials, characters and concepts. We have people doing Indigenous futurism. We have people working with only trash art, reconstructing everyday items. We have people making completely different planets that have their own interesting logic. The umbrella feels quite broad, but that’s really what I’m trying to find. I’m looking for people who have a really defined sense of what they do.”

In all that time, the Biennale has weathered seismic social shifts: the rise and fall of European fascism, the beginning and end of the Cold War, and countless other conflicts, as well as the advent of Futurism, Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art.