On the 3 March 2016 a “Rorschach Audio” lecture demonstration was presented at The University of Applied Sciences & Arts (FHNW) Basel as part of “The Sensorium of Animals” – a two day symposium convened and organised by Shintaro Miyazaki (of the group Detektors) and the artist Susanna Hertrich. “The Sensorium of Animals” took place at The Institute of Experimental Design & Media Cultures (IXDM) at FHNW (which, as it happens, is right next door to Basel’s House of Electronic Arts, the HeK). The symposium was convened to explore “electroreception in experimental and historical media and design research”, and to explore “the possibilities of technology mediated systems to alter the human sensory apparatus from artistic-experimental and media historical angles”. Contributors included Jamie Allen, Alvaro Cassinelli, Joe Banks, Gerhard von der Emde, Antony Hall, Michael Hohl, Martin Howse, Pedro Lopes, Barbara Nordhjem, Selena Savic, Daniela Silvestrin, Tom Thwaites and Jan Claas van Treeck. Among a series of very interesting presentations, particular high-points included talks by Gerhard von der Emde (University of Bonn) and the sound artist Anthony Hall (Owl Project), both speaking about the sensory capabilities of (some extremely cute) electric fish; and the events were followed by excellent (albeit separately organised) noise performances by (turntablist) Pedro Lopes and (guitarist) Mikko Savela, at Plattfon + Stampa.
The following day included a presentation about the Disinformation project, focussing on the “R&D” CD, and “National Grid” and “Stargate” sound works (which were all published in 1996, using electromagnetic – shortwave and VLF radio – noise from natural and man-made sources, including electromagnetic noise from live mains electricity and from the sun), and this presentation provided an invaluable opportunity to fly the flag for Disinformation’s artistic research into electromagnetic fields, etc. Special thanks to Susanna Hertrich, Shintaro Miyazaki, Martina Siegwolf and Zata Banks. Thanks also to everyone who heard “Stargate” at the Upplýsingafölsun Hlustunarpartý in Reykjavik on March 10, and everyone who came along to the impromptu “Rorschach Audio” event at NES Skagaströnd on Feb 18.
Photo – Umberto Eco with Renate Ramge
“Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used “to tell” at all.” [ex caelis oblatus, 1932]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_loop
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar_paradox
Sérdeilis spennandi dagskrá þar sem fléttast saman hljóðverk eftir hljóð – og myndlistarmanninn Joe Banks og margvísleg kvikmyndaljóð sem varpað verður á vegg Mengis. VIð sögu koma meðal annars Schubert og T.S. Eliot, Dolce og Gabbana, mexíkósk ljóðskáld og seigfljótandi hljóð utan úr geimnum. Að baki hlustunarpartýinu stendur enski hljóð og myndlistarmaðurinn Joe Banks sem hefur starfað undir nafninu Disinformation frá árinu 1995 og skapað hljóðverk, hljóðinnsetningar og vídeóverk. Hann hefur gefið út rómaðar plötur á vegum útgáfufyrirtækisins Ash International (systurútgáfu Touch Records), Iris Light og Adaadat Records og haldið fjölda einkasýninga. Í Mengi býður hann upp á verk sem byggja á upptökum stuttbylgjuútvarpa af segulstormum sem myndast vegna kórónugoss eða kórónuskvettu en svo nefnist það þegar gríðarstórar gasbólur springa út frá kórónu sólar.
PoetryFilm var stofnað af sýningastjóranum og listamanninum Zata Banks árið 2002. PoetryFilm Paradox er klukkustunda löng dagskrá með stuttmyndum sem eiga það sammerkt að rannsaka og velta fyrir sér margvíslegum birtingarmyndum ástarinnar, erótík, rómantík og væntumþykju. Myndirnar eru þrettán talsins – þar á meðal er stuttmynd eftir Kate Jessop þar sem við sögu koma hjartnæm bréfaskipti hönnuðanna Domenico Dolce og Stefano Gabbana, kvikmyndafantasía Bruno Teixidor sem byggir á ljóði eftir mexíkóska rithöfundinn og þýðandann Tomas Segovia, táknmálsmynd eftir Brooke Griffin sem byggir á ljóðum Raymond Luczak, kvikmynd Stuart Pound sem byggir á ljóðasöngnum “Die Nebensonnen” úr Vetrarferð Franz Schuberts og Wilhelm Müller, myndræn túlkun Martin Pickles og Mikey Georgeson á ljóði T.S. Eliot “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, stuttmyndin “Fucking Him” eftir listamennina C. O. Moed & Adrian Garcia Gomez, og “447: Intellect – N” eftir Jane Glennie.
Mengi, Reykjavik, 10 March 2016
2,000 ISK, starts at 9pm sharp
Viðburðurinn hefst klukkan 21
Miðaverð 2000 krónur
Mengi, Óðinsgata 2
Reykjavik 101
Iceland
The Disinformation Listening Party focusses on shortwave radio recordings of so-called “Type II” (slow-drift) noise storms – interstellar shock-waves produced by coronal mass ejections from the surface of the sun (first published in 1996).
Illusions of language as illusions of sound – “Random Exhibition Title Generator” by Rebecca Uchill – http://www.mit.edu/~ruchill/lazycurator.html
https://rorschachaudio.com/2014/07/11/john-locke-on-illusions-of-language/
https://rorschachaudio.com/2013/01/05/target-hypnosis/
https://rorschachaudio.com/2012/06/01/laud/
See the “Rorschach Audio” book pages 95 (last sentence) and 102
Following the (packed) “Rorschach Audio” demonstration at The University of Leeds Chemistry Building in Oct 2014, Leeds University’s School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies invited 12 guest speakers to offer “a short answer to a big question”, with a very loose brief… “If you could give 200 words worth of advice to a Fine Art student in 2015, what would it be?”… for publication in an A5 chapbook produced in May 2015.
Authors (contributing one page each) include Tim Etchells (performance artist and co-founder, Forced Entertainment), Richard Forster (sculptor and draughtsman), Oona Grimes (multimedia artist and story teller), Melissa Gronlund (writer and editor, Afterall), Mishka Henner (photographic and web artist), Jennifer Higgie (writer and editor, Frieze), Pavilion (commissioning agency), Grace Schwindt (sculptor and film and performance artist), Molly Smyth (sculptor), Alison Turnbull (painter), Covandonga Valdes (painter) and Joe Banks (founder of Disinformation). The booklet is edited by Nick Thurston and published in association with The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Art Gallery, Pavilion and Yorkshire Sculpture Park. “Art is not necessarily science, but science is always art”; “All artworks are psychology experiments”; “Don’t destroy all rational thought”; “The medium isn’t the message”; “Art should never be boring”…
http://www.fine-art.leeds.ac.uk/events/visiting-artists-talk-joe-banks/
Disinformation + Rorschach Audio 