Visual artworks which use fiction and appropriation to mirror organizations ( The Museum of Jurassic Technology and The Museum of Contemporary Ideas), business structures (The Bank of Oklahoma PLC, SERVAAS, Tecnotest SRL etc) and the lives of invented individuals (Klusian Philosophy, Olive, Dr Peter Ameisenhaufen) often in a trompe l'oeil way.

Many of the fictions created are oxymorons, such as the Museums of Jurassic Technology and of Contemporary Ideas.

     Superfictions is also known as Simulationism, Fictive Realism, Les Trompes (from the French trompe l'oeil ) and Tokyo Mirror Boys.
 

David Wilson 
 

     The creator of The Museum of Jurassic Technology, which has been best described by Ralph Rugoff in Parkett magazine (no 32, p50) written while he was staying at The Duchamp Clinic and Recovery
   Centre close to The Betty Ford Clinic in Palm Springs,California.

While he describes The Duchamp Clinic as "Fairly cozy, cluttered with second-hand furniture, various found objects, and a scattering of chess sets," he paints this picture of The Museum of Jurassic Technology:
"It is dark and claustrophobic enough to evoke the kinship between museum and mausoleum, the MJT is a curiosity collection-cum-natural history museum where science and art, as well as history and fiction, are so fluidly conflated that all distinctions seem suspect.

Aloha

     Aloha , a fictional Australian group from Brisbane, Australia. They take art and tourism as their subject matter and also make wry comments on the sort of merchandise sold in museum shops around the world.

     Some of their work takes the form of what Marcel Duchamp called assisted readymades.

   One of these, a child-size tartan ironing board which, in the one icon, was supposed to stand for the oppression of women, children, and Scotland as a nation, was smuggled in to the 1990 Sydney Biennale and photographed next to works by Richard Wentworth, Hermann Pitz, Rebecca Horn, and others. These were later exhibited in the 1990 exhibition New Complexities New Dance Steps as large C
 prints.
 

     Situated on Park Avenue, is the largest organisation of its kind in the world to be dedicated to contemporary ideas and their research.

The museum offers an unrivalled view across the visual and performing arts, science, architecture, philosophy of science, new technologies, and off-planet systems.

A range of services is available to the physically disadvantaged, sign language interpretors are available for hearing-impaired visitors, and a sculpture touch tour (by appointment) has been designed for the visually dysfunctional.

     The lecture theatres in the Alice and Abner "Bucky " Cameron theatres 3 and 6 are enhanced by infra-red amplification systems backedup by terrestrial and off-planet broadcasting systems.

     According to the museum's primary mission statement, "The Museum of Contemporary Ideas is a  bequest to the people of New York thru the Alice and Abner "Bucky" Cameron Foundation. It was also their wish that the European centre for the museum locate in Dundee, Scotland, home of "Bucky" Cameron's grandparents whose wealth from the local jute industry financed both their son and their    grandson's activities in the multi-national oil and artificial intelligence industries.

all of the above:
courtesy of the MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY IDEAS