Electromagnetic Sound Art in Virtual Exhibition Space - Disinformation 1996 to 2022 [page 2]

Disinformation – “Antithesis”
Virtual exhibition for Schemata Art
Hosted by New Art City + Corsica Studios
March 2022 onwards (indefinite exhibition)

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3D view – newart.city/show/schemata-disinformation-antithesis

Catalogue view - newart.city/catalog/schemata-disinformation-antithesis

Curated and designed by Alice Hoffmann-Fuller, the latest exhibition in Schemata, Corsica Studios’ new experimental arts platform, takes place in a 3D digital rendering of Corsica Studios, hosted by on-line gallery platform New Art City. The “Antithesis” exhibition features brand new and archival work by the highly innovative and influential audio-kinetic art project Disinformation.

The Disinformation project’s exhibition for Schemata is in part inspired by the close proximity of Corsica Studios to the Brutalist architect Rodney Gordon’s iconic memorial to the electrical scientist Michael Faraday, installed, close to Corsica Studios, at the Elephant & Castle in 1961. The Disinformation sound artwork “National Grid” was first released on LP and performed live in 1996, and first exhibited as an art gallery sound installation in 1997. “National Grid” uses electromagnetic noise from live mains electricity to create a monolithic and immersive sound installation, which is conceived as a musical tribute to “the (creative) genius of electrification” [1]. The Michael Faraday memorial itself contains an electrical substation, which feeds high-voltage power to the London Underground; and it is consistent with the assertion that “art is not necessarily science, but science is always art” [2] that the original design for the Michael Faraday memorial envisaged this important work of public art as being a glass container (not, as it stands at present, a highly reflective steel box). On this basis, and in terms that are equally antithetical to the conventional wisdom of mainstream contemporary art, it can be argued that the true purpose of the architect’s original design was to enable members of the public to view what can be seen as the “real” work of art - meaning to view the electrical infrastructure.

[1] Hull Time Based Arts TOOT Festival Programme, Mute Magazine (special supplement) Oct 1999
[2] Joe Banks “The Rumble” (catalogue) Royal Society of Sculptors, March 2001

“Virtually all the physical phenomena we experience, such as light, chemical reactions, the properties of materials, and the transmission of signals along nerve fibres, are electrical in nature. In fact, the only non-electrical force we experience every day is the force of gravity.” – Harris Benson “University Physics” Wiley 1991

See also - www.flickr.com/disinfo/31910925141/

Taken on: July 10, 2022

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