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Disinformation “Antithesis” review by Farhad Mirza

The Disinformation “Antithesis” exhibition reviewed by the Glasgow based journalist Farhad Mirza…

https://newart.city/blog/electric-spirits

To provide a little context for some of the material used in this article, the quote from Lafcadio Hearn – author of “Kokoro” (meaning “heart”) and “Kwaidan” (“scary stories”) – viz. “very possibly all sense of art, as well as all sense of the supernatural, had its simple beginnings in the study of shadows”, features prominently in the catalogue for the Disinformation touring exhibition (“The Analysis of Beauty” exhibition catalogue, published 2003); plus the tracks “Kwaidan part 1” and “Kwaidan part 3” feature on the Disinformation CD “Sense Data & Perception” (published 2005).

Also note in particular the material about “Antithesis” curator Alice Hoffmann-Fuller’s 3D model of the Michael Faraday Memorial at the Elephant & Castle in London. Special thanks to Farhad Mirza, Alice Hoffmann-Fuller and Benny Lichtner.

“A Year In The Country… Spectral Fields”

The latest book by Stephen Prince – “A Year In The Country – Wyrd Explorations” (subtitle “A Decade Of Wandering Through Spectral Fields”) features documentation of the two (highly influential) sound installation and music events, co-curated by Disinformation and Drew Mulholland, at the former RAF “Rotor” radar station and Regional Seat of Government – meaning massive nuclear bunker – at Troywood, Anstruther, Fife, the first event being in September 1998 –

https://ayearinthecountry.co.uk/a-year-in-the-country-wyrd-explorations-book/

The first event featured live performances by Add N to X, Disinformation, E.A.R. (aka Pete Kember, aka Sonic Boom), Mount Vernon Arts Lab (Drew Mulholland) and Project DARK, with the “National Grid” (sub-bass) sound installation exhibited in the (electrical access chute in the) bunker’s 150 metre long access corridor, and the “Theophany” (“The Voice of God”) sound installation in the bunker’s underground chapel. The flyer advertising the first event can be read here –

https://www.flickr.com/disinfo/33020832354/

“Rorschach Audio: Orpheus Mix” – Palais de Tokyo, 2009 to 2011

Orpheus Mix – https://www.flickr.com/disinfo/53805202392/

“Citadels of the Underworld” ****

Part 1 – https://www.flickr.com/disinfo/53745156221/

Part 2 – https://www.flickr.com/disinfo/53744223107/

“Rorschach Audio” talk for Modus Sandbox

Thanks to everyone who came to the “Rorschach Audio” lecture-demonstration at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre in Tottenham last night. Last night’s talk was the inaugural presentation in the new Modus Sandbox series organised by Modus Arts (and was, owing to limited capacity, promoted almost completely by word-of-mouth). Special thanks to Wajid Yaseen, Annie Goh, and Caitlin Evans.

“Rorschach Audio – Art & Illusion for Sound” stresses the influence that little-known wartime intelligence work with sound had on one of the most important works of visual arts theory ever published…

“Ammonite” video at LCB Depot, Leicester ****

“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

 

Hyōshigi + “Theophany” sound artwork ****

“Theophany” artwork in Clot Magazine – https://tinyurl.com/y4vp7wxl

Happy New Year folks!

Disinformation + Flooded Access perform “National Grid”

Ealing Extranormal – Volume 22

Experimental music at Open Ealing Arts Centre…
Saturday 16th December 2023 at 7:30pm

Flooded Access + Disinformation
Rob Flint/FLOMO
Secret Nuclear
Swilly

Disinformation + Flooded Access performing “National Grid”

Open Ealing Arts Centre
Unit 14 School Lane
Dickens Yard
London W5 2TD

Please donate to Doctors Without Borders – https://msf.org.uk/

Tickets – ealingextranormal.eventbrite.co.uk

Sähkö Recordings “Cire Noire” – Disinformation + Savion Glover – “Doppelgänger Variations”


“Disinformation + Savion Glover knock it out of the park in terms of weirdness”

https://www.normanrecords.com/records/200411-various-cire-noire

https://sahkorecordings.bandcamp.com/track/doppelg-nger-variations

• Egg Meat – “Milton / Earth” (Massive Bereavement Mix) 07:11
• Umfang – “Baby Blue” (Drone Edit) 05:07
• Disinformation + Savion Glover – “Doppelgänger Variations” 06:39
• Nuke Watch – “NWPJS Perc” 04:09
• Georgia – “Mekael” 04:00
• Ana Fosca – “Anima” (Novus) 07:28
• Rafael Toral – “Mixed States Uncoded” 03:53

“Doppelgänger Variations” is loosely based on the composition of the same name, D957 #13 in the Concordance of works by composer Franz Schubert.

This “Doppelgänger” variation was field tested at the “Liminality 2 – The Unknown” (event series), Gallery 46, Whitechapel, London, 10 February 2018.

See also – https://tinyurl.com/y7n9j9um

Visual artwork by Wladd Muta, special thanks to Tommi Grönlund

Javier Milei and “Direct Communication”

A far-right (so-called) “libertarian” extremist, who claims “direct communication” with the afterlife, using a psychic medium to take political advice from dead dogs…

https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/opinion-and-analysis/javier-milei-telepathic-conversations-with-dogs-and-mental-health.phtml

… and whose popularity is “connected to (a) lack of a cognitive and sociological framework of the intelligentsia to acknowledge and digest such a phenomenon”.