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Disinformation “Ammonite” video installation – Outernet Arts (London) May to July 2023 - photo by Joe Banks
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Disinformation “Ammonite” – Passengers Offsite, Sluice HQ (London) November 2018 - photo by Julie Hill
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Disinformation “Ammonite” video installation – Dronica Festival 7 (London) April 2018 - photo by Matteo Favero
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Disinformation “Ammonite” – 632.8nm Helium-Neon Gas Laser, July 2009 - photo by Joe Banks
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Disinformation “Ammonite” – information table at Sluice HQ (London) November 2018 - photo by Joe Banks
Exhibition
"Ammonite" by Disinformation
21 May 2023 – 16 Jul 2023
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- Closed
- Wednesday
- Closed
- Thursday
- Closed
- Friday
- Closed
- Saturday
- Closed
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- The Now Building
- Tottenham Court Road
- London
England - WC2H 8LH
- United Kingdom
“Ammonite” by Disinformation is a 15-minute long “video organism”, created using standard definition domestic TV and video equipment, in conjunction with a 632.8nm helium-neon research laser.
About
“Fossils fascinate me – they’re like time capsules; if only one could unwind this spiral it would probably play back to us a picture of all the landscapes it’s ever seen” – J.G. Ballard, Prisoner of the Coral Deep, 1964
“The television screen is the retina of the mind’s eye… the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain…” – David Cronenberg, Videodrome, 1983
The “Ammonite” installation by art project Disinformation is a 15-minute long “video organism”, created using standard definition domestic TV and video equipment, in conjunction with a 632.8nm helium-neon research laser. “Ammonite” uses laboratory optical and digital film technology to create a minutely-tuned and hypnotic visual feedback loop – an optokinetic artwork, in which emergent form self-organises into the image of a gently pulsing and apparently living organism. The installation appears, at first glance, to be filmed in black-and-white, but is in fact realised in colour.
Short video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b9xqp4Dico
Feature in Clot Magazine – https://tinyurl.com/y2t8czmk
More info – https://www.outernetarts.com/channel
NB: the “Ammonite” installation runs from mid-day to 6pm, on Sundays ONLY, from Sunday 21 May to Sunday 16 July 2023.
“Disinformation combine scientific nous with poetic lyricism to create some of the most beautiful installations around” - Jessica Lack, The Guardian
