Disinformation "Angel"

Disinformation "Angel - sense 8, an unexplained signal on a radar screen" (RAF slang). The original version of this artwork was designed in 1997 and published on the gatefold insert to the "Antiphony" double CD (of Disinformation remixes), and was reproduced in several magazine articles about Disinformation. A rough draft of the film version was animated in Quicktime, with the Flash version (from which this clip is derived) being animated by Ben Moat in 1999. Where the best version of Disinformation's "Theophany" sound installation lasts for just 0.083 seconds, in contrast the "Angel" video clocks in at a whopping 5 seconds!

Oscillating between more "serious" technical projects and what you might call contemporary anthropology, a great deal of early Disinformation repertoire drew on the techniques, imagery and folklore associated with radio and radar research, defence electronics and geomagnetism etc; and even though the suggestion was clearly never serious, nonetheless the idea that stray radar traces might represent flight-paths of angels, resembles the idea that stray radio signals might represent voices of ghosts, and the idea that VLF radio "whistlers" (heard on German army field telephones during WW1) might be "ghosts" of artillery shells. These ideas are explored in projects like "Rorschach Audio" and "Ghost Shells" by Disinformation...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZQXMfcl-M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fLxs9H0-t4

"The Angel" was exhibited in the Disinformation "Blackout" exhibition at The ICA New Media Centre (London) in March 2000, and served as the interface for the "Blackout" website which was hosted by The ICA for several years following. The themes explored in Disinformation's "Angel" artwork, "Spellbound" (an allegorical portrait of atom bomb scientist Robert Oppenheimer) and nuclear bunker event, bear a close conceptual and visual similarity to the imagery of Carsten Nicolai's later project "In God We Trust". Disinformation's work with radio noise and the "Angel" animation also very closely resemble a later work called "Scatter" by Marko Peljhan...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/12123300@N04/2328877156/

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