“Language [as] Meta-Technology” ****

“Language [as] Meta-Technology” [edition 2] by Disinformation

Accessible every day – 10am to 6pm
Fri 23 July to Sun 1 Aug 2021

White Box Gallery
5 Hare & Billet Road
Blackheath
London SE3 0RB

The book “Rorschach Audio – Art & Illusion for Sound” argues that “the earliest form of sound recording technology was not a machine but was written language”. “Language [as] Meta-Technology” is an installation, exhibited by the artist project Disinformation, which, extrapolating that concept, uses a commercially available high-end speech synthesiser to articulate (among other statements) the assertions that “the ultimate form of communications technology is language itself”, and that “all literature and poetry are forms of sonic art”. “Language [as] Meta-Technology” is a fully automated, medically sterile and autonomous kinetic audio installation, which will be fully accessible online and from outside White Box gallery.

Image: “Language [as] Meta-Technology” montage © Joe Banks 2021