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Photo showing Honor Harger (NZ) at STARTS Collaborations at Ars Electronica Festival 2018.
Credit: gregor tatschl
Photo showing Honor Harger (NZ) at STARTS Collaborations at Ars Electronica Festival 2018.
Credit: gregor tatschl
Photo showing Honor Harger (NZ) at STARTS Collaborations at Ars Electronica Festival 2018.
Credit: gregor tatschl
Photo of “National Grid” - the electromagnetic sound installation by the art project Disinformation, in the basement of the Museum of Installation [art gallery], London, in July 1997. The “Soundproofs” exhibition featured installations by Joe Banks, David Clegg, Bruce Gilbert (from the band Wire) and Javier Marchán, performances by Joe Banks, Martin Creed and Keiko Owada, Bruce Gilbert, and Hayley Newman, plus a panel discussion chaired by Robert Worby (from BBC Radio 3) and the late Paul Burwell. “National Grid” was sponsored by Bowers & Wilkins loudspeakers (who also sponsored the Disinformation solo exhibition at Fabrica in 2001). This photo appears on page 157 of “Installation Art in the New Millennium” by MOI curators Nicolas de Oliviera, Nicola Oxley and Michael Petry, published by Thames & Hudson in 2003, and on page 25 of the magazine “Musica Falsa”, published in Paris in 1997 (photo by Edward Woodman and courtesy of the MOI). The opening event was attended by the artist Gustav Metzger, and by Mika Vainio (of the electronic music group Panasonic).
The “Installation Art in the New Millennium” book describes how “in his work for Soundproofs the British sound artist Joe Banks used the live frequency of the national electricity grid”, and how “the resulting compression of sound was amplified through a series of sensitive nodes [antennas] and produced a loud tremor, which vibrated through the building”. David Clegg claimed that vibrations from “National Grid” triggered car alarms in the street outside and caused masonry to fall from the front of the building.
The text from the original exhibition proposal reads as follows…
“This installation involves setting up a specially adapted shortwave radio to intercept the sine-wave radiated into the VLF radio band by alternating-current electrical supply, at its resonant frequency of 50Hz, interpret this signal, and amplify the results into a live acoustic mass via loudspeakers. National Grid manifests a genuine geomagnetic phenomenon – the electromagnetic signature of the built environment. National Grid is the ultimate realisation of Futurist noise mechanics – drawing not on a stylised simulation of industrial processes, as precedent dictates, but directly upon electricity itself as both a real and metaphorical source of creative energy.”
“Cette installation nécessite l’utilisation d’une radio onde-courtes conçue de manière à intercepter les ondes-sinus émises dans la bande très basse fréquence par le courant électrique alternatif fourni à sa fréquence résonnante de 50Hz, à l’interpréter, et à amplifier le résultat en une masse acoustique projetée dans des haut parleurs. National Grid met au jour un pur et simple phénomène géomagnétique - la signature électromagnétique d’une construction ou d’une bâtiment. National Grid est la réalisation ultimes des mécaniques sonores Futurist- élèves non sur la simulation stylisée d’un process industriel, comme le veut tradition, mais directement sur l’électricité elle-même en tant qu’elle est le sources la fois réelle et métaphorique de l’énergie créatrice” [translation as printed in “Musica Falsa”].
“National Grid” was first published on LP in 1996, and has been exhibited and performed nearly 40 times since…
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Betwixt Festival attends to this form of art, a form that becomes art in the presence of the human element through interaction, thereby humanising digital technology. It aims to demystify the art form and strengthen the community of digital, interactive art makers through its three-day exhibition, an academic symposium, lectures and masterclasses, performances and screenings.
Betwixt Festival attends to this form of art, a form that becomes art in the presence of the human element through interaction, thereby humanising digital technology. It aims to demystify the art form and strengthen the community of digital, interactive art makers through its three-day exhibition, an academic symposium, lectures and masterclasses, performances and screenings.
Betwixt Festival attends to this form of art, a form that becomes art in the presence of the human element through interaction, thereby humanising digital technology. It aims to demystify the art form and strengthen the community of digital, interactive art makers through its three-day exhibition, an academic symposium, lectures and masterclasses, performances and screenings.
Betwixt Festival attends to this form of art, a form that becomes art in the presence of the human element through interaction, thereby humanising digital technology. It aims to demystify the art form and strengthen the community of digital, interactive art makers through its three-day exhibition, an academic symposium, lectures and masterclasses, performances and screenings.
Betwixt Festival attends to this form of art, a form that becomes art in the presence of the human element through interaction, thereby humanising digital technology. It aims to demystify the art form and strengthen the community of digital, interactive art makers through its three-day exhibition, an academic symposium, lectures and masterclasses, performances and screenings.
Betwixt Festival attends to this form of art, a form that becomes art in the presence of the human element through interaction, thereby humanising digital technology. It aims to demystify the art form and strengthen the community of digital, interactive art makers through its three-day exhibition, an academic symposium, lectures and masterclasses, performances and screenings.
Betwixt Festival attends to this form of art, a form that becomes art in the presence of the human element through interaction, thereby humanising digital technology. It aims to demystify the art form and strengthen the community of digital, interactive art makers through its three-day exhibition, an academic symposium, lectures and masterclasses, performances and screenings.
Betwixt Festival attends to this form of art, a form that becomes art in the presence of the human element through interaction, thereby humanising digital technology. It aims to demystify the art form and strengthen the community of digital, interactive art makers through its three-day exhibition, an academic symposium, lectures and masterclasses, performances and screenings.
Betwixt Festival attends to this form of art, a form that becomes art in the presence of the human element through interaction, thereby humanising digital technology. It aims to demystify the art form and strengthen the community of digital, interactive art makers through its three-day exhibition, an academic symposium, lectures and masterclasses, performances and screenings.
Betwixt Festival attends to this form of art, a form that becomes art in the presence of the human element through interaction, thereby humanising digital technology. It aims to demystify the art form and strengthen the community of digital, interactive art makers through its three-day exhibition, an academic symposium, lectures and masterclasses, performances and screenings.
Betwixt Festival attends to this form of art, a form that becomes art in the presence of the human element through interaction, thereby humanising digital technology. It aims to demystify the art form and strengthen the community of digital, interactive art makers through its three-day exhibition, an academic symposium, lectures and masterclasses, performances and screenings.
Betwixt Festival attends to this form of art, a form that becomes art in the presence of the human element through interaction, thereby humanising digital technology. It aims to demystify the art form and strengthen the community of digital, interactive art makers through its three-day exhibition, an academic symposium, lectures and masterclasses, performances and screenings.
Betwixt Festival attends to this form of art, a form that becomes art in the presence of the human element through interaction, thereby humanising digital technology. It aims to demystify the art form and strengthen the community of digital, interactive art makers through its three-day exhibition, an academic symposium, lectures and masterclasses, performances and screenings.
Betwixt Festival attends to this form of art, a form that becomes art in the presence of the human element through interaction, thereby humanising digital technology. It aims to demystify the art form and strengthen the community of digital, interactive art makers through its three-day exhibition, an academic symposium, lectures and masterclasses, performances and screenings.
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