Disinformation "Artificial Lightning" 1

"Artificial Lightning" (aka "The Origin of Painting") by Disinformation - electromagnetic sound and shadow wall, autodestructive portraiture and experimental painting installation, live at The Hayward Gallery, London, UK, April to July 2000 (where this installation was set-up directly opposite an exhibit by Brian Eno). Special thanks to Tim and Jamie Register and David Toop. 36,000 people came to see the exhibition, and The Financial Times described Disinformation's exhibit as "actively thrilling". The installation functions as a form of contemporary Vanitas painting, as Sci-Fi author Jeff Noon wrote in The Independent - "peole are fascinated by this work - it brings a shiver, a sudden recognition of death, as though we have seen or heard our own ghost".

The Hayward Gallery installation was visited by choreographer Saburo Teshigawara (with dancer Kei Miyata and photographer Ravi Deepres), and inspired the dance producton "Luminous" on which Disinformation worked with Saburo's dance company Karas in Tokyo in 2001. "The Origin of Painting" also inspired a project called "Anti Matter" (exhibited at The Huddersfield Art Gallery, The Mac in Birmingham, Wrexham Arts Centre etc) - a Disinformation video which explores themes suggested by ideas of the physicist Paul Dirac.

"Sonic Boom" at The Hayward Gallery featured installations by Disinformation, Christian Marclay, Lee Ranaldo (of Sonic Youth), John Oswald, Brian Eno, Ryoji Ikeda, Mariko Mori, Pan Sonic, Paul Burwell (RIP), Stephan Von Heune, Angela Bulloch, Chico Macmurtrie, Greyworld, Russell Mills, Ian Walton, Philip Jeck, Paul Schutze, Rafael Toral, Robin Rimbaud / Scanner, Joao Paulo Feliciano, Max Eastley, Heri Dono, Thomas Koner, Christina Kubisch and Project DARK. Many of the ideas documented in Disinformation's section of the "Sonic Boom" catalogue reappreared (several years later) in a series of works by Christina Kubisch called "Electrical Walks" (Professor Kubisch constantly claims she is one of "the first generation of sound artists" - Christina Kubisch published her first LP in 1976, John Cage wrote his first "Imaginary Landscape" in 1939 and Luigi Russolo premiered his "Intonarumori" in 1911).

Disinformation also contributed to a (separate) CD project called "C4i". Some time later, lawyers acting for "Sonic Boom" contributor Ryoji Ikeda threatened to sue Disinformation for "defamation" for pointing out (to an employee of London's Barbican Centre) a rather obvious conceptual similarity between the original "C4i" project and Ryoji's later project "C4i" (which was commissioned by Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media - YCAM, in Japan, with its touring funded by the Japan Foundation). The record company that released the original "C4i" CD - Staalplaat, is the same company that released Ryoji's "Time and Space" and "Mort Aux Vaches" CDs, Ryoji's lawyer argued that the 2 "C4i" projects could not be related however, because Ryoji's title was an acronym for the term "Command, Control, Communications, Computing and Intelligence" - a term which happens to be a direct quote from the front cover of the original "C4i" CD !

http://www.spiderbytes.com/ambientrance/c4i-c.htm
http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=3691
http://www.staalplaat.com/search/catalog/9395

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Film & Animation

[cipherfx]

please explain whats going on here

[JHLKJHLKHLK]

See text opposite

[pewploid]

Is it from the 'Disinformation' crew who also run a website,a publishing co,and a series broadcast by c44 in england circa:1997?

[JHLKJHLKHLK]

No it's from the art group that started in England in 1995, NOT from the US company that stole their name

[lighttree2012]

Ash 9.2 - Disinformation - R&D2 GOOD STUFF

[coelacanth23]

sonic boom was great; i was studying sound art and this time was really good for us

[SamoMarshall]

cool

[ric8ard]

heh, i saw this when it was on in london. (I went as project Dark had some artifacts there, and Ashley D. is a friend of mine). Good to be reminded of it.

[nanoesunsersupremo]

vurt