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Trust Is The Ultimate Currency seeks to consider the importance of the news, questioning why fake news and alternative facts have become throwaway catchphrases, overwhelming and frightening to the mainstream media whilst enabling small groups and organisationsto spark outrage and anger by manipulating imagery and falsifying realities.The exhibition brings together  works  critiquing,  commenting  and  reflecting  upon  the  rise  of  the  media  circus,  documentingthe  decline  in  the relevance and reliability of the news and wondering whether citizen journalism is a worthy replacement.

Trust Is The Ultimate Currency is an accompaniment to the sixth issue of the isthisit? book, which launched at SPACE’s Art+Technology programmeon the 31st January, looking at fake news, alternative facts and the rise of clickbait.

isthisit?  is  a  platform  for  contemporary  art,  exhibiting  over  700  artists  since  its  creation  in  May  2016,  founded  by  its current  director,  artist  and  curator  Bob  Bicknell-Knight.  Online,  it  operates  as  a  gallery  producing  monthly  exhibitions showcasing  emerging  to  mid-career  artists,  hosting  a  roster  of  guest  curators  experimenting  with  the  medium  of  the internet  to  interrogate  a  variety  of  concepts.  The  website  also  hosts  monthly  residencies,  where  artists  are  given  a  web page  to  create  new  work  that  exists  on  the  internet  as  a  piece  of  net  art.  Offline,  it  has  held  exhibitions  nationally  and internationally and is the publisher of isthisit?, a book series released on a triannual basis.