Disinformation is a sound, video and kinetic art project, which, since 1995, produces a series of pioneering experimental music and installation art works, using electromagnetic (often VLF radio) noise, radiated by live mains electricity, lightning, industrial and IT hardware, railway and metro systems, and even the sun, etc. Disinformation rapidly crossed-over into the field of installation art, exhibiting the highly influential “National Grid” sound installation at the Museum of Installation in 1997, “The Analysis of Beauty” at Kettle’s Yard, and a hugely successful (and wildly interactive) sound, light and experimental painting installation (since retitled “The Origin of Painting”) at The Hayward Gallery in 2000, among many others. Disinformation also exhibited and published the earliest (and, to date, by far the most extensive) artist documentations of the monolithic concrete air-defence “sound mirrors” found at various sites on the UK coast. More recent artworks include the “Ammonite” video installation, created in 2009, the “Language [as] Meta-Technology” sound installations, first exhibited in 2018, and “The Rapture” video fire simulator, created in 2022.
Disinformation has recorded 8 commercially published CDs and LPs, performed more than 150 concerts etc, shown work in over 60 group exhibitions, and been the subject of 20 UK solo exhibitions. Disinformation has performed and exhibited internationally and in the UK, in nuclear bunkers, bank vaults, chapels and church crypts, a railway tunnel, trawlers, a punk squat, cinemas, outdoor sculpture parks, nightclubs, community centres, pubs, cocktail bars, libraries, numerous universities and art galleries, in the Olympic stadium in Barcelona and in major art galleries and museums.
Disinformation exhibits have been described as “actively thrilling” by The Financial Times, as “particularly sensuous” by The Wire, as “visually sophisticated” and “distinctive and intelligent” by Art Monthly, and as “mesmerising” by Aesthetica Magazine. Author Hari Kunzru described Disinformation as (the) “poet of noise”, while sci-fi writer Jeff Noon wrote in The Independent that “people are fascinated by this work”. The Metro newspaper described Disinformation as “the black-ops unit of the avant garde”, while The Guardian described how “Disinformation combine scientific nous with poetic lyricism to create some of the most beautiful installations around”.
