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Robert Longo
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Palais de Tokyo (art space) in Paris commissioned the “Rorschach Audio - Orpheus Mix” – a tribute to the Surrealist film-maker Jean Cocteau – recorded by the art project Disinformation in 2009.

The finished work was exhibited on a special Palais de Tokyo “Répondeur” [answering machine] throughout July 2009, and exhibited online until 2011. The commission was curated by the writer Rahma Khazam and administered by Claire Szulc.

The commission itself and the Disinformation art project are both documented in the Palais de Tokyo hardback book “2009 A-Z - From Yodeling to Quantum Physics” (“Du Yodel å la Physique Quantique”) pages 40 to 41, edited by the curator Marc-Olivier Wahler, the philosopher Mark Alizart, and by Palais de Tokyo publisher Frédéric Grossi.

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ERTZ 14 featured a Disinformation concert and “Rorschach Audio” lecture-demonstration, plus performances and installations from Maialen Lujanbio, Xabier Erkizia, Iban Urizar, Aitor Nova, Asier Gogortza, Jose Mari Zabala, Jose Luis Maire, Colin Hacklander, Farah Hatam, Idoia Zabaleta, Peter Cusack, Jakoba Errekondo, Fernando Mikelarena, Jose Luis Espejo, Mikel Nieto, Luca Rullo, Eduardo Gil Bera, Karlos Sanchez Ekiza, Roc Jimenez de Cisneros, Khantoria and Ander Berrojalbiz. The festival was themed around “Los Sonidos de la Guerra” - with the “Rorschach Audio” lecture therefore being included on account of the emphasis that the talk places on the wartime activities of the BBC Monitoring Service.

ERTZ 14 was curated by Xabi Erkizia, and produced in collaboration with Xavier Balderas Cejudo, Mikel Nieto, Jose-Luis Espejo, Marcelo Liberato and Natalia Barberia.

The “Rorschach Audio” talk was delivered with live translations into Basque and Spanish (conveyed to the audience via induction loop headphones), and a detailed introduction to the Disinformation and “Rorschach Audio” projects by Xabi Erkizia (see video)…

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Open Source City event - Static, Liverpool, 21 June 2008. The event featured electronic music by Thought Universe (Mark Pilkington - though not the same Mark Pilkington who runs Strange Attractor Press), Disinformation film screenings, performances by Ad Hoc and OxA, and a REAL boat trip hosted by artist Simon Blackmore (also of Owl Project). The event was organised by and streamed on-line for Sound Network by producer Ross Dalziel, who also organised the “Rorschach Audio” lecture at FACT Liverpool, 5 Nov 2005.

“The ultimate form of communications technology is language itself”

International Lawns, Field Trip No.15
Saturday 4 November 2017
Domo Baal, London

International Lawns present an exhibition installed in Domo Baal gallery, London, for one day only, 4 Nov 2017, with special guests Disinformation, presenting selections from the Colin Banks archive, and the Rural College of Art.

Disinformation is an art project whose work focusses on electricity, communications and language - exploring the creative potential of electronic messaging and laboratory technologies, investigating the psychology of perception of recorded and transmitted speech, and examining relationships between auditory signs and their visual representations. These interests converge in the fields of commercial telecommunications and corporate branding. The philosopher Marshall McLuhan characterised “advertising (as) the folk art of the 20th century”, while the design critic Stephen Bayley argues that “branding should be regarded as the contemporary equivalent of folk art”. The Disinformation project's own (somewhat tongue-in-cheek) branding is inspired by the philosopher’s notion of the “liar paradox”, while specific Disinformation artworks engage with brand entities such as the National Grid and London Underground. For Field Trip 15, Disinformation presents a carefully curated selection of branded telecommunications artefacts from the collection of the typographic designer Colin Banks. The book “Rorschach Audio - Art & Illusion for Sound” states that “the earliest form of sound recording technology was not a machine, but was written language”. Similarly, despite the emphasis that this exhibition places on branded telecommunications hardware, the display, alongside that hardware, of meticulously-crafted typographical and ideographic 'tools', helps emphasise the view that the ultimate form of communications technology is not so much these various forms of communications electronics, so much as language itself.

www.domobaal.com/exhibitions/99-17-international-lawns-fi...