9/11/2001
The Origin of Painting
Fabrica, Brighton
A series of sound, video and interactive installations by Disinformation. Disinformation has produced a large body of work, often characterised by informed and fascinating collusions between art and science. Despite rigour and complexity, Disinformation's output remains accessible to a wide range of audiences, and this debut solo exhibition highlights its approach with several large-scale interactive pieces as well as smaller, more intimate installations.
A series of sound, video and interactive installations by Disinformation
Disinformation has produced a large body of work, often characterised by informed and fascinating
collusions between art and science. Despite rigour and complexity, Disinformation's output remains
accessible to a wide range of audiences, and this debut solo exhibition highlights its approach with
several large-scale interactive pieces as well as smaller, more intimate installations.
National Grid is a pulsing sub-bass sound installation, originally sourced from the ambient VLF-
band radio field radiated by electricity pylons and alternating current, but in this case sourced
directly from the output cables of mains transformers. National Grid is a hypnotic, monolithic and
immersive tribute to the creative vision of the architects of nationwide electrification, and provides
the soundtrack for a new video, commissioned by Fabrica, made in collaboration with film-maker
Barry Hale.
The title piece, The Origin of Painting, is an interactive optokinetic sound and light work. The
installation is a huge light sensitive painting onto which viewers can inscribe images of their own
shadows. A version of this work was included in the Sonic Boom exhibition at the Hayward Gallery
in 2000 and shown earlier this year at the Centre de Cultura Contempornia in Barcelona.
Spellbound is based on photographer Mike Michnoviczs portrait of the nuclear scientist Robert
Oppenheimer, and an optical illusion visible in Bernard Waldmans aerial photograph of the lake of
green glass melted into the sand of the atomic test site at Trinity, Alamogordo, New Mexico, on
July 16th 1945.
The Theophany (the Voice of God) sound installation is a magnetic-field VLF radio recording of a
single frequency-dispersed noise peak radiated by a lightning strike in a tropical electric storm. The
installation lasts for 0.083 seconds.
For further information contact : Matthew Miller at Fabrica 01273 778646
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