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Hands of stone

A reworking of an old image taken of a section of a statue in an art display in the cloisters of Chichester Cathedral in 2022.

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The artist project Disinformation exhibits a substantial repertoire of artworks, which reflect long-standing involvement with experimental and expanded photography. These artworks represent a creative philosophy which conceives photography, not just as a representational art-form, but also as a form of kinetic art. Disinformation is also known for exhibiting electromagnetic sound art, for exhibiting works which exploit phenomena from those portions of the electromagnetic spectrum perceived through the medium of RADIO; and those works make ideal accompaniments for other artworks which exploit phenomena from those portions of the electromagnetic spectrum which are normally perceived through the faculty of SIGHT.

“The Origin of Painting” (for instance) is a highly dynamic and interactive optokinetic sound and light artwork, which enables exhibition visitors to photograph their own life-size shadows, to a soundtrack of live (and surprisingly musical) electromagnetic noise. “The Origin of Painting” was first exhibited under the title “Artificial Lightning”, in the “Sonic Boom” exhibition at London’s Hayward Gallery, April to June 2000 (alongside artworks by Brian Eno, Christian Marclay, Ryoji Ikeda, Christina Kubisch and Mika Vainio etc); after which (using the new title) “The Origin of Painting” has since been exhibited more than 30 times.

“Fire in the Eye” (see photo above) is a series of electro-kinetic photograms, first created in 2004, using high-voltage electro-medical equipment to discharge 30,000 volt shocks through Fujichrome ISO400 35mm daylight film. “Fire in the Eye” light boxes were first exhibited at Canolfan Gelf Wrecsam (Wrexham Arts Centre), Oct 2006, and the Saltburn Gallery, Jan 2007; while a 35mm CINEMA version of “Fire in the Eye” was realised in 2007, created by discharging 30,000 volt shocks through the famous Kodak 5294 film stock used by Ridley Scott for the film “Aliens”.

The “Fire in the Eye” photograph shown above also appears on the front cover of the film magazine “Vertigo” (vol. 4, no. 3, summer 2009) and has been used to illustrate Disinformation exhibits at, amongst others, Iniva (London) May 2009, and Palais de Tokyo (Paris) 2009 to 2011. This photograph also appears in the book “2009 A-Z, Palais de Tokyo - Du Yodel à la Physique Quantique” published in 2009.

“Spellbound” (“An Allegorical Portrait of J. Robert Oppenheimer”) is a photomontage (created by Disinformation producer Joe Banks) of historic images by US Army photographers J.J. Mike Michnovicz and Bernard Waldman. “Spellbound” was first exhibited as a framed artwork at the Victoria & Albert Museum (London) Nov 2000, and the Royal Society of Sculptors (London) March 2001. “Spellbound” has since been exhibited as a video installation - at Fabrica Gallery (Brighton) Nov 2001, the Huddersfield Art Gallery, Jan 2003, Quay Arts (Newport, Isle of Wight) Feb 2004, South Hill Park (Bracknell) April 2004, Derby Quad, June 2004, Goldsmiths College (London) Dec 2008 and Sluice HQ (London) Nov 2018.

Other photographic artworks exhibited by Disinformation include “An Allegorical Portrait of Roger Bacon” photomontage (1997), the “Blackout” [Sound Mirrors] video (1997), the “National Grid” [video installation version] (2001), and “Anti-Matter” (2002), “Ammonite” (2009) and “The Rapture” (2021) video artworks. The “Language [as] Meta-Technology” artwork (2nd version, 2022) is particularly notable, in that, rather than being a photographic image, it requires the artwork’s viewers themselves to actively PHOTOGRAPH a visual image, using a mobile Smartphone, in order to activate the audio element of the “Language [as] Meta-Technology” artwork.

The artist project Disinformation exhibits a substantial repertoire of artworks, which reflect long-standing involvement with experimental and expanded photography. These artworks represent a creative philosophy which conceives photography, not just as a representational art-form, but also as a form of kinetic art. Disinformation is also known for exhibiting electromagnetic sound art, for exhibiting works which exploit phenomena from those portions of the electromagnetic spectrum perceived through the medium of RADIO; and those works make ideal accompaniments for other artworks which exploit phenomena from those portions of the electromagnetic spectrum which are normally perceived through the faculty of SIGHT.

“The Origin of Painting” (for instance) is a highly dynamic and interactive optokinetic sound and light artwork, which enables exhibition visitors to photograph their own life-size shadows, to a soundtrack of live (and surprisingly musical) electromagnetic noise. “The Origin of Painting” was first exhibited under the title “Artificial Lightning”, in the “Sonic Boom” exhibition at London’s Hayward Gallery, April to June 2000 (alongside artworks by Brian Eno, Christian Marclay, Ryoji Ikeda, Christina Kubisch and Mika Vainio etc); after which (using the new title) “The Origin of Painting” has since been exhibited more than 30 times.

“Fire in the Eye” (see photo above) is a series of electro-kinetic photograms, first created in 2004, using high-voltage electro-medical equipment to discharge 30,000 volt shocks through Fujichrome ISO400 35mm daylight film. “Fire in the Eye” light boxes were first exhibited at Canolfan Gelf Wrecsam (Wrexham Arts Centre), Oct 2006, and the Saltburn Gallery, Jan 2007; while a 35mm CINEMA version of “Fire in the Eye” was realised in 2007, created by discharging 30,000 volt shocks through the famous Kodak 5294 film stock used by Ridley Scott for the film “Aliens”.

“Spellbound” (“An Allegorical Portrait of J. Robert Oppenheimer”) is a photomontage (created by Disinformation producer Joe Banks) of historic images by US Army photographers J.J. Mike Michnovicz and Bernard Waldman. “Spellbound” was first exhibited as a framed artwork at the Victoria & Albert Museum (London) Nov 2000, and the Royal Society of Sculptors (London) March 2001. “Spellbound” has since been exhibited as a video installation - at Fabrica Gallery (Brighton) Nov 2001, the Huddersfield Art Gallery, Jan 2003, Quay Arts (Newport, Isle of Wight) Feb 2004, South Hill Park (Bracknell) April 2004, Derby Quad, June 2004, Goldsmiths College (London) Dec 2008 and Sluice HQ (London) Nov 2018.

Other photographic artworks exhibited by Disinformation include “An Allegorical Portrait of Roger Bacon” photomontage (1997), the “Blackout” [Sound Mirrors] video (1997), the “National Grid” [video installation version] (2001), and “Anti-Matter” (2002), “Ammonite” (2009) and “The Rapture” (2021) video artworks. The “Language [as] Meta-Technology” artwork (2nd version, 2022) is particularly notable, in that, rather than being a photographic image, it requires the artwork’s viewers themselves to actively PHOTOGRAPH a visual image, using a mobile Smartphone, in order to activate the audio element of the “Language [as] Meta-Technology” artwork.

5 July to 28 July 2019

White Box Gallery
5 Hare & Billet Road
Blackheath
London SE3 0RB

In his essay “Meanings of Landscape” (“Places of the Mind”, RKP 1949) the critic and curator Geoffrey Grigson described how “some people have ignored the personal factor” in writing on landscape art, and have attempted “to deduce from landscape rules of its own aesthetic”, describing the influence on art (and on art writing) of “a romantic pastime of English travellers in the eighteenth century” who sought to postulate “a kind of psychology divorced from the individual soul”. Particularly in response to the work of the painter John Constable, “Places of the Mind” proposed the alternate hypotheses that “landscape is you and me”, discussing how “we project ourselves” into an actual or painted landscape, “which then reflects our own being back to our eyes”...

Exhibition Guide (PDF) – tinyurl.com/y4f3z3xe

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Special thanks to Domo Baal.

Detail of a larger statue currently on display in the cloisters of Chichester Cathedral.

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Detail of a larger statue currently on display in the cloisters of Chichester Cathedral.

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All Rights Reserved © 2022 Frederick Roll
Please do not use this image without prior permission

Detail of a larger statue currently on display in the cloisters of Chichester Cathedral.

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All Rights Reserved © 2022 Frederick Roll
Please do not use this image without prior permission