The debut “National Grid” sound installation premiered in the “Soundproofs” exhibition at the Museum of Installation (art gallery) Deptford, London, July 1997. “Soundproofs” also featured artworks by David Clegg, Bruce Gilbert (from the punk band Wire) and Javier Marchan, plus a Disinformation DJ set, and performances by Martin Creed and Owada and by Hayley Newman. The MOI Archive launched at Tate Britain on Friday 6th Sept 2024 (more info soon)…
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/museum-of-installation-archive
“National Grid” is documented in the book “Installation Art in the New Millennium” by MOI directors Michael Petry, Nicola Oxley and Nicolas De Oliveira, Thames & Hudson 2003 (page 157), and “Musica Falsa” (magazine) Éditions MF (Paris) 1997 (page 25). Photo (above): Stefan Brüggemann.
“National Grid” at MOI, 1997 – https://www.flickr.com/disinfo/33661873685/
“Sound 2024” exhibition
2nd to 20th Sept 2024
Mondays to Fridays [only]
Opening 9am to 5pm
LCB Depot
31 Rutland Street
Leicester LE1 1RE
Large format graphics + radio noise recordings from the Disinformation “R&D” CDs feature in the “Sound 2024” exhibition at LCB Depot, Leicester, alongside work by Arjan Onderdenwijngaard, Asha King, Dead Hand, Diren Demir, Domenico De Simone, Eloïse Bertil, James West, Jon Pask, Kwame Phillips, L’KU / AJH, Lucy Dearlove, Miriam Bean, Mort Drew, Nadya Sayapina & Eugene Bulyk, Núria Rovira Terradas, Patricia Azevedo & Clare Charnley, Ross Clement, Sam Rowe, Seth Guy, Shortwave Collective, Soar Sound & Radio Lear, and Yu Yan.
The recording exhibited in “Sound 2024” is the Disinformation track “Ghost Shells”, which was first published on LP and CD in 1996, then exhibited as a gallery sound installation at Art™ (Inverness) May 1999, and in the Ikon Gallery touring exhibition “Kiss the Sky”, which toured UK venues from May 2000 onwards. “Ghost Shells” can also be heard in the BBC Radio 4 “Broadcasting House” interview, broadcast 15 June 2008 (see earlier posts). A 0.083 seconds long extract from “Ghost Shells” was exhibited as the definitive (though not the first) iteration of the “Theophany” sound artwork, which was exhibited in the Raphael Cartoon Room at the Victoria & Albert Museum (London) 5 Nov 2000, and at Fabrica Gallery (Brighton) Nov to Dec 2001*.
https://lcbdepot.co.uk/event/sound2024/
Special thanks to Chris Slowe.
* “Theophany” in Clot Magazine – https://tinyurl.com/y4vp7wxl
Orpheus Mix – https://www.flickr.com/disinfo/53805202392/
Disinformation on Resonance 104.4 FM – Wavelength – 4 November 2016 –
https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/wavelength-4th-november-2016/
Disinformation on BBC Radio 4 – Broadcasting House – 15 June 2008 –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoMKR_OH3GM
Disinformation on BBC Radio 4 – Broadcasting House – 2 November 2008 –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrV3e3WQZ1Y
Disinformation on ITV1 (formerly Carlton TV) – Raw TV – 20 August 1999 –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g6PcLEx6bs
Thanks to William English, Paddy O’Connell, Ryan Dilley, Raw TV, and to Chris Weaver (of Resonance FM)
… interviews discussing work published 1996 onwards
“New Generations” exhibition
12th to 26th January 2024
Mondays to Fridays [only]
Opening 9am to 5pm
LCB Depot
31 Rutland Street
Leicester LE1 1RE
“New Generations” at LCB Depot, Leicester, is an exploration of “the processes that artists employ to create intricate and surprising computational artwork”, featuring the “Ammonite” video by Disinformation, alongside exhibits by Chris Joseph, Stuart Smith, Karen Hazelton, Seph Li, Fania Raczinski & Dave Everitt, Alp Tuğan, Simon Šerc, Algoritmarte, Mateus Domingos, Alan Jetzt, Paul Mazzitelli, Khush Kali, Stephen Scrivener, Howard Cohen, Stephen Bell, Sean Clark, Desmond Henry and Brian Reffin Smith.
https://www.interactdigitalarts.uk/projects/new-generations
Images – https://photos.app.goo.gl/TRdPGEDDstR7ctAM8
Disinformation + Rorschach Audio 