(YouTube) "Artificial Lightning" (aka "The Origin of Painting") by Disinformation - electromagnetic sound and shadow wall, autodestructive portraiture and experimental painting installation, live at The Hayward Gallery, London, UK, April to July 2000 (where this installation was set-up directly opposite an exhibit by Brian Eno). Special thanks to Tim and Jamie Register and David Toop. 36,000 people came to see the exhibition, and The Financial Times described Disinformation's exhibit as "actively thrilling". The installation functions as a form of contemporary Vanitas painting, as Sci-Fi author Jeff Noon wrote in The Independent - "people are fascinated by this work - it brings a shiver, a sudden recognition of death, as though we have seen or heard our own ghost".

The Hayward Gallery installation was visited by choreographer Saburo Teshigawara (with dancer Kei Miyata and photographer Ravi Deepres), and inspired the dance producton "Luminous" on which Disinformation worked with Saburo's dance company Karas in Tokyo in 2001. "The Origin of Painting" also inspired a project called "Anti Matter" (exhibited at The Huddersfield Art Gallery, The Mac in Birmingham, Wrexham Arts Centre etc) - a Disinformation video which explores themes suggested by ideas of the physicist Paul Dirac.

"Sonic Boom" at The Hayward Gallery featured installations by Disinformation, Christian Marclay, Lee Ranaldo (of Sonic Youth), John Oswald, Brian Eno, Ryoji Ikeda, Mariko Mori, Pan Sonic, Paul Burwell (RIP), Stephan Von Heune, Angela Bulloch, Chico Macmurtrie, Greyworld, Russell Mills, Ian Walton, Philip Jeck, Paul Schutze, Rafael Toral, Robin Rimbaud / Scanner, Joao Paulo Feliciano, Max Eastley, Heri Dono, Thomas Koner, Christina Kubisch and Project DARK. Many of the ideas documented in Disinformation's section of the "Sonic Boom" catalogue reappreared (several years later) in a series of works by Christina Kubisch called "Electrical Walks" (Professor Kubisch constantly claims she is one of "the first generation of sound artists", a claim that is blatantly false - Christina Kubisch published her first LP in 1976, John Cage wrote his first "Imaginary Landscape" in 1939, and Luigi Russolo premiered his "Intonarumori" in 1911).

Disinformation also contributed to a (separate) CD project called "C4i". Some time later, lawyers acting for "Sonic Boom" contributor Ryoji Ikeda threatened to sue Disinformation for "defamation" for the crime of pointing out (to an employee of London's Barbican Centre) a rather obvious conceptual similarity between the original "C4i" project and Ryoji's later project "C4i" (which was commissioned by Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media - YCAM, in Japan, with its touring funded by the Japan Foundation). The record company that released the original "C4i" CD - Staalplaat, is the same company that released Ryoji's "Time and Space" and "Mort Aux Vaches" CDs, Ryoji's lawyer argued that the 2 "C4i" projects could not be related however, because Ryoji's title was an acronym for the term "Command, Control, Communications, Computing and Intelligence" - a term which happens to be a direct quote from the front cover of the original "C4i" CD !

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The new 35mm cinema version of a Disinformation project called "Fire in the Eye" (commissioned by Threshold Studios for The Arts Council of England) premieres at The Edinburgh International Film Festival on Saturday 21 June (the first still-image version of "Fire in the Eye" was made in 2004 and first exhibited at Wrexham Arts Centre in 2006) - details from http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk