A4 information sheet for the “Soundproofs” exhibition, at London’s Museum of Installation (gallery) in July 1997. “Soundproofs” featured audio installations by Bruce Gilbert (from the band Wire), Joe Banks (Disinformation), David Clegg and Javier Marchán, performances by Martin Creed and Keiko Owada, Bruce Gilbert, Joe Banks, and Hayley Newman, plus a panel discussion chaired by Robert Worby (from BBC Radio 3) and the late Paul Burwell.

 

The information sheet refers to installation art as “being delineated as a broad discursive field” which is “often presented with an almost exclusive reliance on the visual”. So, in this exhibition the Museum of Installation presented “a series of empty rooms in which there is nothing to see beyond the architectural fabric”. The “Soundproofs” exhibition featured “National Grid” - the electrical sound installation created by Joe Banks for the project Disinformation, and, although the sound from this installation was heard (and felt) as vibrations rising up through the floor into an empty gallery, in fact the set-up in the basement was quite photogenic (see links below).

 

The info sheet acknowledges “Soundproofs” as a “collaboration with David Clegg of Workfortheeyetodo”, describing how as the gallery’s “exterior skin is being refurbished” the artists were “producing a score for the architectural container”, and then describing how “by moving through the building the listener then recreates and modifies the works, fusing mnemonic triggers and fragments into a cohesive form”. “Soundproofs” took place at the same time that the Workfortheeyetodo space was exhibiting works by John Cage, Paul Burwell and Stephen Cripps.

 

“National Grid” was first published on LP in 1996 and first exhibited at the MOI in 1997, pre-dating works such as “Domestic Grid Flux” by CM von Hausswolff (Modern Art Oxford, 2000) and “Electrical Walks” by Christina Kubisch (Klangraum Raumklang, Köln, 2004) by 4 and 8 years respectively (and, rather strangely, Christina Kubisch often describes herself as belonging to the [quote] “first generation of sound artists”, despite her first work being published 65 years after Luigi Russolo’s famous Intonarumori, and decades after pioneering works by John Cage, Pierre Schaeffer, Luciano Berio, Iannis Xenakis, Daphne Oram and Delia Derbyshire, etc).

 

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Canada 2021 - Many of Canada's historic hundred year old plus Christian Churches have fallen victim to arson.

   

They're Burning down the Churches.

 

Canada Day July 1st 2021, The traditional proud and celebratory Canadian national holiday, aka Canada Day, has been interrupted this year by a disturbing string of violent acts and massive property destruction. Arsonists have attacked defenseless Christian Churches causing severe damage and in many cases the burning to the ground of 100 year old historic churches and their contents that include irreplaceable documents and invaluable historic artifacts .

  

And the list is growing..

  

A prayer ,

“If this fire was deliberately set, we ask for you to forgive whoever set it, and heal them, and bring them into your family with us, so that they may learn of your love for them, the same love that you have overwhelmed us with in our lives,”

  

No offer as yet by the NDP Liberal Government to help rebuild the burned Christian churches nor any sincere attempt by them to apprehend and charge the perpetrator(s) ?

  

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some major news clippings :

 

Apr 22, 2021 The century-old St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Attawapiskat Ontario First Nation burned to the ground on the evening of April 21, 2021 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/attawapiskat-church-fire-1...

 

June 21 - Suspicious fires destroy the Sacred Heart Mission Catholic Church on Penticton Indian Band land Penticton B.C. burnt to the ground. www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51430521370/in/album-7...

 

June 26 - St. Ann’s Catholic Church ( 110 yrs old ) on the Hedley Native Reserve of the Upper Similkameen Band near Oliver B.C. - Catholic church was burned to the ground by arson. www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51432230804/in/album-7...

 

June 26 - Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church ( 1896 ) on the Chopaka Native Reserve - Lower Similkameen Indian Band, near Osoyoos. was burned to the ground by arson and totally destroyed. www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51427903261/in/album-7...

 

June 26 - St. Paul’s Anglican Church ( 108 yrs old ) on Gitwangak First Nations land, between Terrace and New Hazelton. B.C. fire damaged

 

June 28 - Siksika First Nation Catholic Church Calgary

 

June 29 - Siksika Anglican Church east of Calgary damage

 

Wed June 30th - century old St. Jean Baptiste Church in Morinville Alberta ( oldest Catholic Church in Alberta ), community centrepiece and Town meeting hall totally destroyed when burned to the ground by an asonist . www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51427903261/in/album-7...

 

June 30th Nova Scotia St. Kateri Tekakwitha Church on Sipekne'katik First Nation northwest of Halifax damaged by arson

 

July 1st - Downtown Yellowknife.. St. Patrick's Co-Cathedral Parish heavy interior and smoke damage

 

Many more Churches were vandalized with windows broken, small fires started, and paint thrown on them ( 11 in Calgary alone )

 

July 1st - St. Paul’s Anglican Church ( 108 yrs old ) on Gitwangak First Nations land, between Terrace and New Hazelton. B.C. - burned to the ground and totally destroyed by arson. www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51434008805/in/album-7...www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51434052775/in/album-7...

 

July 9th Kelowna BC The Grace Lutheran Church’s garage went up in flames but saved by local FD,

 

Jul 19 Surrey BC - St George Coptic Orthodox Church was burnt to the ground - completely destroyed by arson, www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51433426473/in/album-7...

 

St. Theresa Point Roman Catholic Church - An earlier Church fire took place in Manitoba Apr 5, 2021, when a Roman Catholic church was burned to the ground in St. Theresa Point First Nation Manitoba. www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51745130236/in/album-7...

 

Central Heights Church, Abbotsford, BC. Abbotsford Police are investigating a July 21 arson incident at Central Heights Church. A suspect described as 30-40 years old, male, dark-skinned and wearing a bright yellow rain jacket with a grey baseball hat is being sought by authorities.

 

Little Flower Mission Church, Fox Lake, AB.,

RCMP are investigating an arson incident after a fire was deliberately set at Fox Lake Community Church on Saturday, August 7, 2021. The building sustained significant interior damage.

 

St. Mary’s Parish, Prince George, BC.

On July 26, a suspect placed two containers of gasoline near St Mary’s Parish church and lit them on fire. The incident caused the side of the church to catch aflame. Police are still investigating the incident.

 

Knox United Church, Prince George, BC.

Police responded to a report of an individual spraying flammable material and spray painting an alley near the church. Messages made reference to the residential school findings.

 

Aug 25, 2022 Suspicious fire destroys century-old church in Fort Chipewyan, Alta. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/church-alberta-fort-chipe...

 

St. Andrew’s United Church, Prince George, BC.

Fire services responded to a structure fire at St. Andrew’s United Church on July 4. The outside of the building was damaged as a result of the fire. Police are still investigating the matter.

 

Upper Pine Gospel Chapel, Rose Prairie, BC.

According to Fort St. John RCMP a report was received at 12:34 a.m. of a fire engulfing Upper Pine Gospel Chapel. Police are investigating the incident.

 

St Joseph’s Lutheran Church, Armena, AB.

Camrose RCMP responded to a fire on Dec. 31, 2022 at the small parish St. Joseph Lutheran Church near the village of Hay Lakes. When first responders arrived the church was completely engulfed in flames. Police believe the fire is suspicious and are investigating it as an intentional act.

 

May 22, 2023 St. Bernard Catholic Church, Grouard, AB. St. Bernard Catholic Church was completely engulfed in flames after fires were intentionally set within its premises. The RCMP have since arrested two suspects as a result of the fire. The building remains unsalvageable.

 

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Cherry Grove, AB.,

On Apr 28, 2023 a fire was intentionally set at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Police are investigating the fire as suspicious after the church was razed to the ground by the flames.

 

On Feb. 13, RCMP responded to a fire at the historic St. Michael’s Hungarian Church. When they arrived the church had completely burnt to the ground. Police have since arrested and charged two suspects.

 

Okotoks Alliance Church, Okotoks, AB.,

On Feb. 5, 2023 the Fire Department was called to deal with a fire at Okotoks Alliance Church. Police are investigating the fire as suspicious and have ruled that it is related to arson.

 

Feb. 22, 2023 St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church,, A deliberately set fire destroys over a century of history in Barrie Ontario,

barrie.ctvnews.ca/barrie-church-officials-seek-to-rebuild...

 

St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church, Hamilton, ON.,

On Dec. 31, 2022 police arrived at St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church where they discovered incendiary materials and evidence of arson. One suspect is currently facing arson charges in connection with the incident.

 

Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Catholic Church, Fort Chipewyan, AB.,

On Aug. 25, 2022 firefighters responded to a church arson at the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Catholic Church. One suspect was arrested in Oct. of that year for the fire. The church was completely destroyed.

 

June 13 th 2021 - St. John's Tuscaroras Anglican Church ( 1817 ) on Six Nations of the Grand River Ontario attacked by arsonist !

 

Dec 17, 2023 - St. Gabriel Catholic Mission - Yet another historic church was burned down in Alberta

www.lifesitenews.com/news/another-historic-church-burns-d...

 

Dec 11 2023 Barrhead, Alberta — Two more historic Christian churches intentionally set on fire late last week in what police said were suspected acts of arson. More than 100 churches have been targeted by criminal acts of arson and vandalism since 2021. www.lifesitenews.com/news/two-more-historic-churches-in-c...

 

Dec 20th 2023 - RCMP say fire that destroyed Beiseker Seventh-day Adventist Church early Wednesday was arson,

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/beiseker-church-fire-1.706...Sep 30, 2024, Loon Lake Sask - St. George Anglican Church (1939) has been burnt to the ground.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/mayor-loon-lake-churc...

 

Jun 9, 2024 Fire ravages historic St. Anne’s Anglican Church in Toronto, destroying Group of Seven murals

ottawa.citynews.ca/2024/06/09/fire-destroys-part-of-histo...

 

Sep 30, 2024, Loon Lake Sask - St. George Anglican Church (1939) has been burnt to the ground.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/mayor-loon-lake-churc...

 

Mar 13, 2025 Congregation 'devastated' after fire wrecks Grace-St. John's Anglican Lutheran Church in Carman Man.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/carman-church-grace-st-jo...

  

A new study reveals that arson attacks on Canadian churches have more than doubled since 2021, with most cases linked to public reaction over reports of unmarked graves at former residential schools-not anti-religious sentiment. Despite nearly 100 churches damaged or destroyed, fewer than 4% of arsonists have been charged, leaving communities searching for answers and healing. www.facebook.com/100069681242082/posts/978055547860478/?_rdr

  

Although the vast majority of residents in cities across Canada like Halifax, Montreal, Victoria, Hamilton and Calgary had wanted to just simply retain their history by just leaving local statues and artifacts alone, unfortunately, these historical artifacts were shown total disrespect and disregard when either destroyed by lawless vigilante mobs while police stood by and watched, or else hastily torn down and then hidden away by order of local Mayors and council without public consultation or permission ? Many other historic Statues such as Queen Elizabeth ll, Queen Victoria, and even Captain Cook were also mutilated or torn down by lawless vigilante mobs ?

  

2011 - A National Household Survey of Statistics Canada, of 1,400,685 persons who self-identified as Aboriginal in private households, 889,315, or 63 percent identified as Christian. Of these, over 500,000 identified as Roman Catholic.

     

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news clippings :

 

Feb 3rd, 2022 - after the first week of the strike Trudeau and Singh are quick to react and both are quick to immediately condemn the new Truckers Strike as a hate crime ? At Least 45 Christian Churches have been set afire in the last 2 years as the attacks and turnings escalate and this subject has not yet been raised by Trudeau and Singh in Parliament ?

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July 25, 2023, luckily, there was only minimal damage in the Mississauga Mosque Attack ? Under new Liberal legislation. hate is considered to be an extremely serious crime in Canada. And as such, this attack is well publicized and even receives a personal visit by the P.M. himself along with a massive CBC news media coverage . A heavy penalty of 8 yrs in prison was handed down to the perpetrator ? Luckily there was no serious property damage to the structure nor life threatening injury to worshipers in the bear spray attack ?

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/mississauga-mosque-attacke...

 

Arson causing property damage is an extremely serious crime - Sep 09, 2022 - Alberta Arsonist gets 10 years ? Arson causing property damage is an extremely serious crime and nets this arsonist 10 years in prison for torching car dealerships, a pet shop and a gas station.

calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/edson-arsonist-who-torc...

 

At Least 45 Christian Churches are Set afire as the attacks and burnings escalate !

www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/2021/july/number-of-canadian-christi...

 

Montreal will not replace the mutilated and then toppled Sir John A. MacDonald statue (circa 6th June 1895), back to where it had stood for 130 years before being destroyed by a gang like lawless vigilante mob ?

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/john-a-macdonald-statue-m...

 

There have been 83 Churches that have been vandalized or burned to the ground since the start of hateful protests based on residential school viewpoints ?

tnc.news/2023/07/04/a-map-of-every-church-burnt-or-vandal...

 

Arson is understandable according to Justin Trudeau ? The Prime Minister of Canada says "anger towards Catholic Church is understandable " ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxKMNTMPhhs&t=0s

 

July 1,2021 - We order you to ban Canada Day celebration ? 'hold those fireworks' The official itinerary of Justin Trudeau ( the Prime Minister of Canada ), does not include July 1st Canada Day celebrations claiming that for some, Canada Day is not a day to celebrate ? rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-day-political-reaction-1.....

 

Church Arson & Vandalism ? www.rebelnews.com/tags/church_arson_vandalism

 

Mohawk-language Bible is finally published after decades-long effort by one Quebec man,

montreal.ctvnews.ca/mohawk-language-bible-published-after...

 

Many prominent Canadian Politicians remain oddly silent and unconcerned about a recent rash of Church arson burnings ?

capforcanada.com/christianity-under-attack-in-canada-as-p...

 

Nov 11th 2023 - Canada's Military has been ordered by the NDP/Liberal Government not to use or recite Christian prayers like the Lord's Prayer in Remembrance Day ceremonies this year ?

www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/gunter-we-will-always-pray-f...

 

Nov 08, 2024 - Canadian Military uniforms - Sackville Heights Elementary school in Halifax asks Military service members to hide their uniforms and to wear only civilian during Remembrance Day ceremonies ? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/remembrance-day-unifor...

 

Nov, 2023 - Girl Guides of Canada tell their Chapters not to participate in Santa Clause Parades this year due to the diversity and inclusion issue ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKixRjRvW7s

 

Trudeau explains away the arson attacks on Christian churches ?

torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/lilley-trudeau-explains...

 

On being White and Christian and male in Canada ? A Lawyer discusses the question of ; are heavier sentences now being imposed on certain Canadian citizens ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4S2H3L-vjU&t=41s

 

NDP National Convention Hamilton 2023 - Can it really be Canada ? The NDP seem to be using a caste system like they have in India ? Delegates given yellow or white tags with the white tags identifying white Christian males who must go to the back of the line ? Others are given yellow tags and can go to the front and given the priority to speak first ?

www.reddit.com/r/CanadianConservative/comments/17a0qh2/ho...

 

Christmas 2023 - Children not to be shown the nativity story ? The traditional Christmas Concerts in some grade Schools in Halifax are cancelled due to nclusion and diversity issue ?

atlantic.ctvnews.ca/more/n-s-after-school-concert-cancell...

 

The Canadian Human Rights Commission ( fully funded by the Liberal government) declares the celebration of Christmas is evidence of Canada’s colonialist religious intolerance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWmuDidYTiY

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWmuDidYTiY

 

Nov 2022 - Unusual democracy in Terrace B.C. ? The Nativity scene was banned by Council this year even though 73 % of the local citizens want it shown just as it always has been ? www.agassizharrisonobserver.com/news/nativity-scene-banne...

 

Christmas Dec 2023 Moncton, N.B.- Moncton City Council had decided in private that the nativity scene and the Menorah remain in storage and not allowed shown or displayed this Christmas ? Both Christian and Jewish communities are, ‘profoundly hurt’ www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics/moncton-jewish-community-...

 

Dec 2023 - Jyoti Gondek current mayor of Calgary has created a political storm and has upset the Jewish community in Calgary at Christmas time ? She has refused to attend the City's annual menorah lighting, saying that the event has become too political for her ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-5e1LEV1pU

 

Dec 31 2023, Is celebrating New Years Eve in Canada now considered to be somehow inappropriate by the CBC ? Happy New Year Canada from your taxpayer owned CBC ? For the first time ever in memory, CBC will not broadcast the traditional New Years Eve Party,, stage show or countdown ? CBC says they can't afford it ? www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainment/other/cbc-to-skip-new-yea...

 

CBC Jan 09, 2024 - After 3 years of relative silence on a story about the current epidemic of Christian Churches burnings by arson, CBC finally air a brief approx 8 minute documentary story covering this ongoing national disgrace ? A local First Nations chief, who is quite vocal about his personal animosity towards the Church, serves as the co-host in the first segment of the program ? Another individual who is currently studying at UofA in Edmonton explains why Christian Church arson by her First Nations people is understandable and justifiable ?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxkX6NPpe14&t=51s

 

Jan 10, 2024 - A newspaper article on Christian Church arson in Canada www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/church-fires-canada-1.705...

 

Jan 28 2024 Fredericton NB Canada, Citizens gather together arm in arm in solidarity showing community outrage over an attack on a local Jewish Sgoolai Israel Synagogue . Over 100 residents join arms to show sympathy and support against an attack on a place of worship . ca.news.yahoo.com/community-unites-support-vandalized-fre...

 

Is Bill C-367 designed to eventually make Christianity illegal in Canada ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_VQe0z6ghk

 

Bill C-367 - Speaking the Biblical message as truth could get you arrested in Canada ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1NY_YsF35k

 

No one is denying the existence of residential schools. And so why are Leah Gazan (NDP) Lindsay Mathyssen (NDP) and Kimberley Murray (Liberal Government investigator) so unsatisfied and why are they trying to force their own unique personal and job related viewpoint on everyone else ? Why do they want you to think the same way that they think, believe what they believe, and to be forced to accept what they want or else be called a denier and sent to jail ?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZU7NEzs3Gk

 

Jan 10, 2024- At least 33 Canadian churches have been burned to the ground since May 2021. So far, 24 confirmed as arson ? .

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/church-fires-canada-1.705...

 

Dec 2024 - Terry Newman: 592 places of worship burned in 12 years.

www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/terry-newman-592-places-of-...

 

Aug 24, 2024 - ' Church arson equals Terrorism in France' - French anti-terrorism team is investigating attempted arson against a French synagogue. The Country of France is viewing Church burning as internal Terrorism, yet Canada does nothing as over 100 historic churches in Canada are attacked ? Dec/2024 Trudeau not invited to the official Notre Dame opening ceremony in France ?

www.cbc.ca/news/world/arson-attempt-france-1.7304198

 

Is Christianity under attack in Canada ? Our NDP Liberal political leaders hide, downplay and don't seem bothered at all by the epidemic of Christian Church Arson ?

capforcanada.com/christianity-under-attack-in-canada-as-p...

 

Apr 11, 2024, Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba's NDP premier Wab Kinew wants to change the current prayer recited in the legislature to make it more inclusive of people who practice faiths other than Christianity, or those holding no faith at all ? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/prayer-legislature-questi...

 

Good Friday Easter 2024 - Did Prime Minister Trudeau snub a longtime Canadian religious holiday ? www.msn.com/en-ca/news/other/warmington-prime-minister-ac...

 

fire set in doorway possible 'hate crime' - Vancouver, May 31, 2024, - Police say the fire set in the doorway of the Schara Tzedeck synagogue May 30th is arson and are treating it as a possible 'hate crime' and will immediately launch a criminal investigation into suspected Church arson

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-fire-sy...

  

Aug 21, 2024 - Alleged Catholic church arsonist immediately let out on bail ? Vernon man is arrested Monday after trying to start fires outside a Catholic church has been released on bail, and barred from possessing lighters or matches. Suspect granted bail following hearing Tuesday afternoon in Kamloops provincial court.

www.castanet.net/news/Vernon/502364/Bail-granted-to-man-a...

  

Apr 16th 2025 Montreal - Scrum following the French-language leaders' debate - NDP leader Jagmeet Singh won't address questions on Christian church arson attacks in Canada ? Dismisses this as misinformation and disinformation and dismisses person asking question as extremist ? Refuses to answer ?

nowtoronto.com/news/canadians-react-to-ndp-leader-jagmeet...

 

Trump is protecting history - enacts 10 years in jail penalty for harming or defacing historical statues,,

www.cbsnews.com/video/trump-signs-executive-order-enactin...

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Religious intolerance - The ability of an individual to freely practice their religion is a fundamental human right.

www.chrc-ccdp.gc.ca/en/resources/publications/discussion-...

 

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she wants to know what this administration is hiding, and wants the truth about its hidden intentions .

well let me pass along some of history on gross manipulations of civil liberties during the seventies and eighties, a program called Cointelpro

 

Through a secret program called the Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO), there was a concerted effort to subvert the will of the people to avoid the rise of a black Messiah that would mobilize the African-American community into a meaningful political force.

 

This documentary establishes historical perspective on the measures initiated by J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI which aimed to discredit black political figures and forces of the late 1960's and early 1970's.

 

Combining declassified documents, interviews, rare footage and exhaustive research, it investigates the government's role in the assassinations of Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, and Martin Luther King Jr.

 

www.cmgworldwide.com/historic/malcolm/

www.malcolm-x.org/

 

Were the murders the result of this concerted effort to avoid "a black Messiah"?

  

Spies, lies, and war: Lessons of COINTELPRO

 

by Sherry Wolf, International Socialist Review, September/October 2006

 

What was COINTELPRO?

In 1971, activists broke into FBI offices in Media, Pennsylvania, and discovered files that proved what many had suspected for years-the government was involved in widespread domestic surveillance, infiltration, and violence against radical organizations and individuals. The Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO), mounted by the FBI to "disrupt, misdirect, discredit, and otherwise neutralize" the civil rights, Black liberation, Puerto Rican independence, Native-American, antiwar, socialist, and New Left movements of the 1960s and 1970s, is one of the most notorious of the U.S. government's domestic anti-radical programs. Most of what has been learned about government activities against radicals was accessed through hundreds of thousands of pages of previously secret documents released through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)-though most information remains largely censored and blacked out.

 

COINTELPRO was the brainchild of J. Edgar Hoover, the founder and director of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. Shaped by the anticommunist hysteria in the aftermath of the successful Russian Revolution of 1917, Hoover took part in the Palmer Raids against radicals and spent the rest of his life in the service of espionage and undermining suspected "subversives" of every sort. Contemporary histories tend to focus on Hoover's maniacal egotism and closeted homosexuality to explain his lifelong fixation on repressing minorities who fought discrimination and reds who challenged the status quo. But Hoover's agenda was embraced by every president he served, including Democrats Harry Truman, John E Kennedy, & Lyndon B. Johnson.

 

The FBI, in close collaboration with local police units (sometimes called Red Squads), used a number of techniques in its efforts to disrupt and destroy leftist groups, the most important of which are enumerated here.5

 

Eavesdropping: This involved not only electronic surveillance, but also putting "tails" on people and breaking into offices and homes, as well as tampering with mail. The FBI's intention was not simply to gather intelligence, but, by making their presence known in various ways, create paranoia among activists.

 

Bogus mail: FBI agents would fabricate letters, ostensibly written by movement activists, which spread lies and disinformation. The Bureau sent many fake letters to American Indian Movement (AIM) and Black Panther Party (BPP) leaders and activists that were designed to sow confusion and division in the ranks. The Huey Newton and Eldridge Cleaver wings of the BPP, for example, were split after the FBI sent a number of manufactured letters from disgruntled party members to Cleaver, then in exile in Algeria, criticizing Huey Newton's leadership.

 

Black propaganda: The distribution of fabricated articles, leaflets, etc., that misrepresented the politics and objectives of an organization or leader, in order to discredit the group or individual and to pit people and organizations against each other.

 

Disinformation: The FBI often released false or misleading information to the press to discredit groups or individuals and to foster tension.

 

Harassment arrests: The police or FBI often arrested leaders and activists on trumped up charges in order to tie up activists in legal and court proceedings, drain their financial resources, and heighten their sense of fear and paranoia.

 

Infiltrators or agent provocateurs: The infiltration of organizations by police agents served two purposes. One was to gather intelligence on the group. Provocateurs were used to try and encourage individuals to engage in illegal activity that could then be attributed to the group as a whole; to disrupt the internal functioning of organizations; and to assist in spreading of disinformation inside and outside the group.

 

Bad-jacketing: This "refers to the practice of creating suspicion-through the spread of rumors, manufacture of evidence, etc.-that bonafide organizational members, usually in key positions, are FBI/police informers. "6 The technique was used to particularly deadly effect inside the American Indian Movement. Talented AIM activist Anna Mae Aquash, for example, who was murdered on Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota in February 1976, was first subject to a successful whispering campaign, initiated against her by FBI informant Doug Durham, who had joined the AIM chapter in Des Moines, Iowa. Durham's role in AIM also seems to have been to encourage AIM members to engage in "rash, inflammatory acts," according to author Peter Mathiessen.7 Durham, for example, released "several unauthorized memos, disseminated on organizational letterhead, indicating that AIM was preparing to launch a campaign of 'systematic violence.""

 

Fabrication of evidence: FBI agents, police, and prosecutors routinely fabricated evidence in order to obtain convictions in criminal cases against activists. A number of AIM and BPP activists, including BPP leader Geronimo Pratt and AIM leader Leonard Peltier, who has been in prison for three decades for a crime he did not commit, were convicted on such trumped-up evidence.9

 

Assassinations: There is ample evidence that FBI and related agencies played a direct role in the assassination of a number of key radical leaders.

  

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Report in the Evening Standard newspaper by journalist Max Bell, published 9 October 1996, previewing the following evening’s Disobey club night at the Garage music venue in Highbury, London. Disobey was organised by Paul Smith of Blast First - the record company responsible for publishing artists like Sonic Youth, Big Black, Dinosaur Jr., Suicide and Panasonic, alongside sound works by the artist Jeremy Deller, etc. The name Blast First was a direct quotation from the Vorticist magazine “Blast”, founded in 1914 by the artist Wyndham Lewis - “BLAST First (from politeness) ENGLAND”.

 

The Evening Standard describes Disobey as a landmark of the London club scene, name-checks notable Disobey patrons such as Jarvis Cocker, Brian Eno and Nick Cave, and Disobey performers such as Iain Sinclair, Richard James (Aphex Twin), Jake Chapman, Bill Drummond, Mark Manning, Bruce Gilbert (of the band Wire), and (on this occasion) Disinformation, but also stresses how Disobey was a no-dress-code venue, welcoming everyone.

 

The article also discusses how (on the following evening) “the noise will be provided by Joe Baker (sic) of Disinformation performing National Grid”, which “involves him tapping into the hum of the power network and blasting the Garage’s long suffering patrons into oblivion using Extremely Low Frequency”. Extremely Low Frequency WHAT wasn’t specified (it was Very Low Frequency radio noise)… nonetheless, especially bearing in mind that the ease of access to information that we now take for granted (ie - Google) didn’t yet exist, this article helped introduce many thousands of readers to ideas and techniques which were (at that time) considered obscure even inside the tiny micro-culture of experimental noise music.

 

The night in question was attended by (among others) the writer Kathy Acker and the artist CM von Hausswolff. CM von Hausswolff subsequently included (quote) “Disinformation live at Disobey” in a list of events organised by his art project KREV (list published in Immerse magazine, issue 1, page 30, 1996) despite Disinformation having NOTHING to do with KREV, and before von Hausswolff went on to exhibit very similar sound works, eg - “Domestic Grid Flux” in the “Audible Light” exhibition at Modern Art, Oxford, in 2000.

 

Also with regard to documenting influence, the Evening Standard has a circulation of over 800,000 copies, plus “National Grid” was also described in the MTV magazine “Blah Blah Blah”, which had a circulation of 120,000 copies (see link)…

 

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Bruce Gilbert also remixed “National Grid” recordings… twice… for the Disinformation “Antiphony” double remix CD, and exhibited his own (unrelated) sound work alongside the first “National Grid” exhibit at the Museum of Installation gallery, both in 1997…

 

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Seventeen Murrow Fellows visited Gracy College and were hosted by the Cox International Center Nov. 9, 2022. The Murrow Fellows are sponsored by the U.S. State Department and include international journalists from a variety of countries including South Korea, Australia, Laos, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and others. The theme of the discussion was "Media Responsibility in an Age of Disinformation for the Indo-Pacific."

In February 2012 the Wysing Arts Centre produced a limited-edition artist publication entitled “The Starry Rubric Set”, co-edited by Gareth Bell-Jones and by the designers An Endless Supply. Contributing artists were asked to respond to an invitation to “predict two points in motion that will come into alignment”. The response offered by Joe Banks was…

 

“To fulfill my prediction, draw two points as dots, about 5mm wide and 10cm apart on a card, and bring them into motion by moving the card backwards and forwards in front of your eyes - the lines described by the motion of these points are parallel and therefore aligned. Cover your right eye with your right hand, and, holding the card with your left hand, focus your left eye on the right point, but remain aware of the left dot in your peripheral vision. Keeping the left eye focussed on the right point, move the card to and fro, adjusting the viewing distance, until the left dot... disappears. The blind-spot experiment is well-known, however, beyond the physiological truism that a section of the retina is insensitive to visual information, what's less well understood is that the images the mind places over blind-spots are illusions that we experience not only as experimental anomalies or visual novelties, but as part of everyday visual reality. It's not so much a question of the mind passively failing to perceive a point, as the mind actively creating an image to replace it with.”

 

The Wysing publication served as a testing ground for an idea that was subsequently explored in the “Rorschach Audio” book (pages 170 and 173), and in an article in Shoppinghour magazine (issue 10, Spring 2013), and ultimately condensed into the assertion (published in May 2016 on the website of the AXNS Collective) that, on the basis of visual phenomena such as retinal inversion, blind-spots, and kinetic depth effect and Necker cube illusions etc, that “visual reality is in itself a carefully constructed optical illusion”.

 

The evolution of this idea is also documented here -

 

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“The Starry Rubric Set” features contributions from Aaron Angell, Ed Atkins, Joe Banks, Ruth Beale, Chris Chippendale, Kaavous Clayton, Tom Cobbe, Patrick Coyle, Lucy Conochie, The Constitution of the Damned, Arnaud Desjardin, Harriet Loffler, Grizedale Arts, Kit Hammonds, Jonathan Harris, Lizzie Hughes, Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry, Hilary Koob-Sassen, Lawrence Leaman, Gil Leung, Fay Nicholson & Oliver Smith, Am Nuden Da, Uriel Orlow, Kate Owens, EP Park, Francesco Pedraglio, Paul Pieroni, Nigel Pennick, Philomene Pirecki, Laure Prouvost, David Raymond Conroy, Paul Richards, Damien Roach, Phil Root, Giles Round, Emma Smith, Cally Spooner, Adam Thomas, Nick Thurston, Mark Titchner, Unrealised Projects, Lawrence Upton, Mark Aerial Waller & Jesse Wine. The image above features page 16 of “The Starry Rubric Set” publication, with the publisher's colophon copied-and-pasted over the previously blank section at the bottom of the image.

 

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The Kremlin's Lord Haw Haw made this ludicrous remark in reply to a Twitter post by "Spriter" - a vatnik account that spews out an endless torrent of Russian disinformation 24/7.

 

And it's characteristic that Spriter was incapable of having a tantrum about the demolition of this monument without lying about it. His claim that it was "erected on the burial site of 500 dead Soviet soldiers" is completely untrue.

 

First of all, although Głubczyce is now in Poland - before the Second World War it was the German town of Leobschütz, and only became Polish as a result of the 1945 Potsdam Agreement.

 

Secondly, there are no Soviet soldiers buried anywhere in the town.

 

Although Soviet monuments have gradually disappeared from view all over Poland (and the rest of central and eastern Europe), monuments that are inside cemeteries or over burial grounds remain untouched (in Poland at least), and the graves of Soviet soldiers would never be desecrated in such a way by the Polish authorities.

 

In 2018, I took a trip to Warsaw's Praga district to visit and photograph sites commemorating victims of Stalinist terror, one of which is a memorial in Plot 45N of Bródno Cemetery.

 

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A short distance from the memorial, I was amazed to discover a plot containing the graves of fallen Soviet soldiers, which had been maintained in pristine condition, despite the fact that in all probability, nobody visits it anymore.

 

I personally think that monuments like the one in Głubczyce should be preserved in museums rather than being demolished, but I can certainly understand the desire to remove them from public spaces. However, George Galloway's ridiculous reply to Spriter's tweet simply underlines the fact that he's a complete and utter clown - and also a total hypocrite.

 

In April 2023, when a monument commemorating Polish and Lithuanian victims of Soviet deportation to Galashor in Perm Krai, Russia, was destroyed, gormless George didn't have anything to say about that.

 

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And in 2020, when authorities in the Russian city of Tver removed memorial plaques commemorating victims of the Katyń massacre from the former Soviet secret police building - claiming that their inscriptions were “not based on documented facts” (another Russian lie) - Galloway was unavailable for comment.

 

www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/05/08/russian-city-removes-pl...

 

And during their invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Russians removed, destroyed or damaged holodomor memorials, cemeteries, mass graves of Stalin's victims (including Polish victims of the Katyń massacre), holocaust memorials and numerous monuments that celebrated Ukrainian culture and identity - but George was probably too busy sucking Russian cocks to notice any of that....

Palais de Tokyo (art space) in Paris commissioned the “Rorschach Audio - Orpheus Mix” – a tribute to the Surrealist film-maker Jean Cocteau – recorded by the art project Disinformation in 2009.

 

The finished work was exhibited on a special Palais de Tokyo “Répondeur” [answering machine] throughout July 2009, and exhibited online until 2011. The commission was curated by the writer Rahma Khazam and administered by Claire Szulc.

 

The commission itself and the Disinformation art project are both documented in the Palais de Tokyo hardback book “2009 A-Z - From Yodeling to Quantum Physics” (“Du Yodel å la Physique Quantique”) pages 40 to 41, edited by the curator Marc-Olivier Wahler, the philosopher Mark Alizart, and by Palais de Tokyo publisher Frédéric Grossi.

 

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A6 format postcard advertising the Disinformation concert, for experimental music promoter Lampo, Chicago, 16 April 2005. Disinformation performed with live and with pre-recorded radio (electromagnetic) noise sources, simultaneously projecting “The Air Pump” - a video made in tribute to the artwork of the same name by the 18th century painter Joseph Wright (aka Wright of Derby), and showcasing material from the “Sense Data & Perception” CD. The video featured high-voltage discharges through cold plasma vacuum tubes, and premiered at this Lampo event.

 

The concert was organised by Lampo proprietor Andrew Fenchel, and took place at the Pieholden Suite Sound (recording studio) in the Ukrainian Village (thanks also to Kevin Drumm, who, so rumour has it, had a hand in Disinformation being invited by Lampo). The postcard was screen-printed in thick ink on heavy card, featuring excellent Wyndham Lewis (“Blast”) style typography by renown designer Alisa Wolfson.

 

During this visit, Joe Banks also presented a “Rorschach Audio” lecture-demonstration at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, at the invitation of the sound artist Nicolas Collins (author of the book “Handmade Electronic Music”, who also arranged the bulk importation of hundreds of Barrel of Monkeys for Joe). Lampo Spring 2005 performers were Disinformation, Malcolm Goldstein, Alexei Borisov and the Bohman Brothers. The concert immediately preceding Disinformation at Lampo was given by the sound artist CM von Hausswolff, who also lectured at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago... and this is particularly apposite, since the “Rorschach Audio” demonstrations expose and de-bunk the beliefs about Electronic Voice Phenomena (ghost-voice) recordings that form a central focus within the work of CM von Hausswolff.

 

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Page height advertisement in Time Out magazine, 17 May 2000, page 57, promoting the “Sonic Boom” exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, April to June 2000. The “Sonic Boom” exhibitors were Angela Bulloch, Paul Burwell, Disinformation, Heri Dono, Max Eastley, Brian Eno, Paulo Feliciano, Greyworld, Stephan von Huene, Ryoji Ikeda, Philip Jeck, Thomas Köner, Christina Kubisch, Chico MacMurtie, Christian Marclay, Katarina Matiasek, Russell Mills, Mariko Mori, John Oswald, Pan Sonic, Project Dark, Lee Ranaldo (from Sonic Youth), Scanner, Paul Schütze, Rafael Toral and Ian Walton. Click on the image to enlarge.

 

“Sonic Boom” was curated by David Toop and Fiona Bradley, and was (and still is) the largest and most ambitious exhibition of sound art ever staged in the UK (and, in terms of cultural context, it’s also interesting to note that the reverse page in this Time Out advertises “Witness” - the UFO themed exhibition by Susan Hiller, staged by Artangel, and “Ant Noises” at the Saatchi Gallery - featuring Damien Hirst, Ron Mueck, Gavin Turk, Chris Ofili and Rachael Whiteread). For details of the “Sonic Boom” performances follow the links...

 

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Promotional graphics advertising the Disinformation performance at The Hayward Gallery, London, 2 June 2000. The performance took place inside “Artificial Lightning” - a hugely successful and wildly interactive sound, light and shadow installation, that since toured extensively under the revised title “The Origin of Painting”. The Hayward Gallery performance consisted of the live electromagnetic soundtrack used in the “Artificial Lightning” installation, mixed with an in-situ performance of “National Grid” (electromagnetic noise from live alternating current), mixed with (pre-recorded) sounds from the Disinformation “Stargate” recordings (radio emissions from the sun), originally released (alongside “National Grid”) by the record company Ash International in 1996. The performance was widely advertised (in for instance Time Out magazine) and physically packed, taking place as part of the “Sonic Boom” exhibition, curated by David Toop and organised by Fiona Bradley, which ran at The Hayward Gallery, April to June 2000.

  

Sonic Boom exhibitors included Angela Bulloch, Paul Burwell, Disinformation, Heri Dono, Max Eastley, Brian Eno, Paulo Feliciano, Greyworld, Stephan von Huene, Ryoji Ikeda, Philip Jeck, Thomas Köner, Christina Kubisch, Chico MacMurtie, Christian Marclay, Katarina Matiasek, Russell Mills, Mariko Mori, John Oswald, Pan Sonic, Project Dark, Lee Ranaldo, Scanner, Paul Schütze, Rafael Toral and Ian Walton. “Artificial Lightning” was installed directly adjacent to Brian Eno’s exhibit. Siân Ede (of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation) described “Artificial Lightning” as (quote) “way and ahead the best piece in Sonic Boom”, sci-fi author Jeff Noon wrote in The Independent newspaper that “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”, and, writing in The Financial Times, the art critic William Packer described the Disinformation installation as “actively thrilling”.

 

Similar graphics were previously produced for Disinformation performances at Disobey (10 Oct 1996), The Royal College of Art (5 Dec 1996) and South London Gallery (15 Aug 1998) etc. The promotional graphics feature 3d computer models of VLF and military radio antennas, which served as de-facto Disinformation logos on various CDs and catalogues etc from 1996 onwards.

 

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Special thanks to Tim Register

Various Artists + Disinformation "Antiphony"

Ash International [Ash 3.4] 2xCD 1997

Sound Mirror photo © Julian Hills, Feb 1996

Sound Mirrors video © Barry Hale, 1997 -

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Imber village photo © Joe Banks, Jan 1996

 

The Sound Mirrors video – “Blackout” by Disinformation – has been widely exhibited in the UK and internationally since being filmed by Barry Hale and first exhibited in 1997. In 1999 and 2000 the video formed the centrepiece of the Arts Council funded “Blackout” exhibition, which toured to the Waygood Gallery (Newcastle), Broadway Centre (Nottingham) and ICA New Media Centre (London), since when the video featured in numerous group exhibitions and several Disinformation solo shows. The Sound Mirrors video has most recently been exhibited in the “Digest Sound” exhibition at the Witte Zaal [gallery] (Gent), as part of the Courtisane Film Festival in 2010, and at Le Bon Accueil [sonic arts gallery] (Rennes) in 2014.

 

Artangel and Imber - www.flickr.com/photos/disinfo/7042948343/

TFW2005 has received confirmation that the combiner Devastator will appear in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The confirmation includes the following details:

 

- Seven construction vehicles merge to form Devastator

- Devastator has lots of upper body strength, like a gorilla

- Not just green, some of the vehicles are red and yellow

- The previously Long Haul concept art (image to left) by Josh Nizzi is legit

Tim Sadler, Co-Founder and CEO, Tessian

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Two journalists, Clément Di Roma and Carol Valade, have been awarded the 2022 Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for their documentary “The Central African Republic under Russian influence”

 

This documentary is a Découpages/Arte G.E.I.E co-production, initially broadcast on Arte Reportage in French, German and English. It was also broadcast on France 24 and published in the French newspaper Le Monde.

 

Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament, Pina Picierno, Vice-President responsible for the Prize, and Anthony Bellanger, Secretary General of the International Federation of Journalists and representative of the 29 members of the independent European-wide Jury, opened the award ceremony held in the Daphne Caruana Galizia Press Room of the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

 

President Metsola said: "The Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism sends a strong message. The European Parliament is on the side of truth and justice, of independent journalism.

 

A strong democracy needs a strong press. And there is no democracy without freedom of the press. In Europe, rights and liberties are goals we fight for, not obstacles."

  

Between the 3rd May and 1st August 2022, more than 200 journalists from the 27 EU countries submitted their stories for consideration. 11 of these submissions were shortlisted by the jury before the overall winner was decided.

 

About the winning story

 

This film is Clément Di Roma and Carol Valade’s first documentary and the culmination of their work as correspondents in the Central African Republic in 2020. The country was going through a wave of violence and abuses triggered by a new rebellion, partly fought by Wagner, a shadow army serving the Kremlin's interests. They investigated, filmed and continued their correspondence for several international media despite the surveillance of Russian mercenaries and the prevailing hostility against the French media. It was also a question of continuing the work of their three Russian colleagues, Orhan Djemal, Kirill Radchenko, and Alexander Rasstorguyev, murdered in the Central African Republic while investigating Wagner in 2018. Their main concern has been the protection of their sources, especially those who denounce the crimes of mercenaries, in a country where disappearances of opponents are common. After several months of investigation, they gained the trust of Russian propaganda actors in the Central African Republic. Their voices had never been heard before. Without bias, their documentary gives a voice to the victims of the mercenaries, but also to their supporters, to better understand the methods of this takeover, facilitated by a resentment towards France. They wanted to make all voices heard in this other front of the conflict with Russia that is now spreading to the Sahel on both military and disinformation fields.

 

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The Sturmgeschütz III (StuG III) assault gun was Germany's most produced armoured fighting vehicle during World War II. It was built on the chassis of the proven Panzer III tank. Initially intended as a mobile, armoured light gun for infantry support, the StuG was continually modified and was widely employed as a tank destroyer.

 

The Sturmgeschütz III originated from German experiences in World War I when it was discovered that during the offensives on the western front the infantry lacked the means to effectively engage fortifications. The artillery of the time was heavy and not mobile enough to keep up with the advancing infantry to destroy bunkers, pillboxes, and other minor obstacles with direct fire. Although the problem was well known in the German army, it was General Erich von Manstein who is considered the father of the Sturmartillerie. This is because the initial proposal was from (then) Colonel Erich von Manstein and submitted to General Ludwig Beck in 1935, suggesting that Sturmartillerie ("assault artillery") units should be used in a direct-fire support role for infantry divisions. On June 15, 1936, Daimler-Benz AG received an order to develop an armoured infantry support vehicle capable of mounting a 75 mm (2.95 in) artillery piece. The gun mount's fixed, fully integrated casemate superstructure was to allow a limited traverse of a minimum of 25° and provided overhead protection for the crew. The height of the vehicle was not to exceed that of the average man.

 

Daimler-Benz AG used the chassis and running gear of its recently designed Panzerkampfwagen III medium tank as a basis for the new vehicle. Prototype manufacture was passed over to Alkett, which produced five prototypes in 1937 on Panzer III Ausf. B chassis. These prototypes featured a mild steel superstructure and Krupp’s short-barreled 75 mm StuK 37 L/24 cannon. Production vehicles with this gun were known as StuG III Ausführung (version) A to E.

 

While the StuG III was considered self-propelled artillery it was not initially clear which arm of the Wehrmacht would handle the new weapon. The Panzer arm, the natural user of tracked fighting vehicles, had no resources to spare for the formation of StuG units, and neither did the infantry branch. It was agreed, after a discussion, it would best be employed as part of the artillery arm.

 

The StuGs were organized into battalions (later renamed "brigades" for disinformation purposes) and followed their own specific doctrine. Infantry support using direct-fire was its intended role. Later there was also a strong emphasis on destroying enemy armour whenever encountered.

 

As the StuG III was designed to fill an infantry close support combat role, early models were fitted with a low-velocity 75 mm StuK 37 L/24 gun to destroy soft-skin targets and fortifications. After the Germans encountered the Soviet KV-1 and T-34 tanks, the StuG III was first equipped with a high-velocity 75 mm StuK 40 L/43 main gun (Spring 1942) and in Autumn 1942 with the slightly longer 75 mm StuK 40 L/48 gun. These versions were known as the Sturmgeschütz 40 Ausführung F, Ausf. F/8 and Ausf. G.

 

When the StuG IV entered production in late 1943 and early 1944, the "III" was added to the name to separate it from the Panzer IV-based assault guns. All previous and following models were thereafter known as Sturmgeschütz III.

 

Beginning with the StuG III Ausf. G, a 7.92 mm MG34 could be mounted on a shield on top of the superstructure for added anti-infantry protection from December 1942. Some of the F/8 models were retrofitted with a shield as well. Many of the later StuG III Ausf. G models were equipped with an additional coaxial 7.92 mm MG34.

 

The vehicles of the Sturmgeschütz series were cheaper and faster to build than contemporary German tanks; at 82,500 RM, a StuG III Ausf G was cheaper than a Panzer III Ausf. M, which cost 103,163 RM. This was due to the omission of the turret, which greatly simplified manufacture and allowed the chassis to carry a larger gun than it could otherwise. By the end of the war, ~11,300 StuG IIIs and StuH 42s had been built.

 

Overall, Sturmgeschütz series assault guns proved very successful and served on all fronts as assault guns and tank destroyers. Although Tigers and Panthers have earned a greater notoriety, assault guns collectively destroyed more tanks. Because of their low silhouette, StuG IIIs were easy to camouflage and a difficult target. Sturmgeschütz crews were considered to be the elite of the artillery units. Sturmgeschütz units claimed to have knocked out 20,000 tanks by 1944. As of April 10, 1945, there were 1,053 StuG IIIs and 277 StuH 42s in service.

 

The StuG assault guns were cost-effective compared to the heavier German tanks, though in the anti-tank role they were best used defensively, as the lack of a traversable turret was a severe disadvantage in the assault role. As the German military situation deteriorated later in the war, more StuG guns were built compared to tanks, to replace losses and bolster defenses against the encroaching Allied forces.

 

In 1943 and 1944, the Finnish Army received a total of 59 StuG III Ausf. Gs from Germany and used them against the Soviet Union. Thirty of the vehicles were received in 1943 and 29 in 1944. The 1943 batch destroyed at least 87 enemy tanks for a loss of only 8 StuGs (some of which were destroyed by their crews to avoid capture). The 1944 batch saw no real action. After the war, the StuGs were the main combat vehicles of the Finnish Army until the early 1960s. These StuGs gained the nickname "Sturmi" which can be found in some plastic kit models.

 

100 StuG III Ausf. G were delivered to Romania in the autumn of 1943. They were officially known as TAs (or TAs T3 to avoid confusion with TAs T4) in the army inventory. By February 1945, 13 units were still in use with the 2nd Armoured Regiment. None of this initial batch survived the end of the war. 31 TAs were on the army inventory in November 1947. Most of them were probably StuG III Ausf. G and a small number of Panzer IV/70 (V), known as TAs T4. These TAs were supplied by the Red Army or were damaged units repaired by the Romanian Army. All German equipment was scrapped in 1954 due to the Army's decision to use Soviet armour.

 

StuG IIIs were also exported to other nations such as Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, and Spain.

 

Many German Sturmgeschütz IIIs were stranded in Yugoslavia after the war. These were used by the Yugoslav Peoples Army until the 1950s.

 

After the Second World War the Soviet Union donated some of their captured German vehicles to Syria, which continued to use them along with other war surplus AFVs (like long-barreled Panzer IVs and T-34/85s) during the 1950s and up until the War over Water against Israel in the mid-1960s. By the time of the Six Days War all of them had been either destroyed, stripped for spare parts, or interred on the Golan Heights as static pillboxes

 

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Electromagnetic sound art in virtual exhibition space...

 

Disinformation – “Antithesis”

Virtual exhibition for Schemata Art

Hosted by New Art City + Corsica Studios

March 2022 onwards (indefinite exhibition)

 

Full description + user guide – rorschachaudio.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/disinformation...

 

3D view – newart.city/show/schemata-disinformation-antithesis

 

Catalogue view - newart.city/catalog/schemata-disinformation-antithesis

 

Curated and designed by Alice Hoffmann-Fuller, the latest exhibition in Schemata, Corsica Studios’ new experimental arts platform, takes place in a 3D digital rendering of Corsica Studios, hosted by on-line gallery platform New Art City. The “Antithesis” exhibition features brand new and archival work by the highly innovative and influential audio-kinetic art project Disinformation.

 

The Disinformation project’s exhibition for Schemata is in part inspired by the close proximity of Corsica Studios to the Brutalist architect Rodney Gordon’s iconic memorial to the electrical scientist Michael Faraday, installed, close to Corsica Studios, at the Elephant & Castle in 1961. The Disinformation sound artwork “National Grid” was first released on LP and performed live in 1996, and first exhibited as an art gallery sound installation in 1997. “National Grid” uses electromagnetic noise from live mains electricity to create a monolithic and immersive sound installation, which is conceived as a musical tribute to “the (creative) genius of electrification” [1]. The Michael Faraday memorial itself contains an electrical substation, which feeds high-voltage power to the London Underground; and it is consistent with the assertion that “art is not necessarily science, but science is always art” [2] that the original design for the Michael Faraday memorial envisaged this important work of public art as being a glass container (not, as it stands at present, a highly reflective steel box). On this basis, and in terms that are equally antithetical to the conventional wisdom of mainstream contemporary art, it can be argued that the true purpose of the architect’s original design was to enable members of the public to view what can be seen as the “real” work of art - meaning to view the electrical infrastructure.

 

[1] Hull Time Based Arts TOOT Festival Programme, Mute Magazine (special supplement) Oct 1999

[2] Joe Banks “The Rumble” (catalogue) Royal Society of Sculptors, March 2001

 

“Virtually all the physical phenomena we experience, such as light, chemical reactions, the properties of materials, and the transmission of signals along nerve fibres, are electrical in nature. In fact, the only non-electrical force we experience every day is the force of gravity.” – Harris Benson “University Physics” Wiley 1991

 

See also - www.flickr.com/disinfo/31910925141/

April 21, 2022—Administrator Samantha Power met with International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President Peter Maurer to discuss humanitarian emergencies and responses around the world, including in Ukraine and Afghanistan. The two discussed their shared concerns on the need for urgent humanitarian access in Ukraine. They also discussed ICRC’s challenges in countering disinformation and false narratives about their work in Ukraine.

22x28 Acrylic on Canvas

 

Commentary on the US government's policy of non-disclosure for the American people.

 

Please feel free to Google any of the keywords here and you will be immediately ensnared within a web of scary, but TRUE revelations.

13/10/2025, Brussels - Local Truth, Shared Trust. Tackling Mis/Disinformation from the Local Level © Elio Germani 2025

In a year when two out of three Latin Americans will elect new leaders, freedom of expression remains a crucial but fragile pillar of the region’s democratic systems. In 2017, 22 media workers were killed in the Americas, and other practices—from threats of violence to criminal prosecutions—were employed against individuals exercising their freedom of expression to better inform society. In addition, new challenges to democratic debate have emerged, including the deliberate, malevolent spread of disinformation—or “fake news”—and the corresponding danger of regulatory overreach by governments in response.

 

The Inter-American Dialogue, Reporters Without Borders, and the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) are pleased to host a public forum to analyze persistent threats, emerging challenges, and potential solutions for protecting freedom of expression in the Americas.

Bangui (République centrafricaine), 03 mai 2023 : Pour marquer la Journée mondiale de la liberté de la presse, des professionnels de médias ont échangé autour du thème « une presse indépendante, un outil parfait pour garantir la justice et pour protéger les droits de la personne ». L’activité, coorganisée par des ONGs et Associations de presse, avec l’appui de la MINUSCA, a permis au président du Haut conseil de la communication, José Richard Poamby, de rappeler et condamner les effets dévastateurs de la désinformation et des discours de haine dans les efforts pour une paix durable.

  

Bangui (Central African Republic), 03 May 2023: To mark World Press Freedom Day, media professionals gathered to discuss the theme "an independent press, a perfect tool to guarantee justice and protect human rights". This event, co-organised by NGOs and press associations, with the support of MINUSCA, allowed the president of the High Council for Communication, José Richard Poamby, to recall and condemn the devastating effects of disinformation and hate speech in the quest for a lasting peace.

  

Photo : MINUSCA/Herve Cyriaque Serefio

 

Los acontecimientos alrededor del sismo del pasado 19 de septiembre ponen a la vista la estrategia que adoptó el Estado mexicano para administrar la tragedia en su beneficio, ocultar su negligencia, lucrar con ella y aprovechar la oportunidad que se viene para engrosar los bolsillos de quienes más tienen. Es esto lo que convierte un desastre natural en una tragedia.

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La omisión del Estado y la administración de la tragedia | Por Tejiendo Organización Revolucionaria | 25 de septiembre de 2017 - tejiendorevolucion.org/190917.html

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Quien protagoniza la tragedia es la negligencia, no el temblor; evidencia de ello es que éste fue presentado como inesperado, aunque es por demás sabido que se dio en zona sísmica; evidencia son los más de treinta años en que no se avanzó en la prevención: las revisiones fallidas después del temblor del 7 de septiembre no arrojaron datos de que hubiera escuelas mal construidas o con daños estructurales; evidencia es que los reglamentos de construcción son letra muerta, asesinada por la corrupción de los diversos niveles de gobierno y los negocios inmobiliarios.

 

La urgencia de la tragedia convocó a la solidaridad inmediata y la presión del tiempo urgente ocultó un hecho fundamental: el Estado sí cuenta con los recursos materiales y humanos para enfrentar la catástrofe; cuenta con maquinaria pesada, equipo y personal especializado, infraestructura de comunicación, dinero, etc., si no los ocupó fue porque deicidio no hacerlo, no porque se viera rebasado.

 

El Estado mexicano tiene recursos de alta tecnología para espiarnos, por ejemplo, pero no los puso al servicio de los rescatistas para localizar vida dentro de los escombros. Tampoco se usó la estructura estatal para proporcionar información fidedigna y pronta que pudiera salvar vidas y canalizar la ayuda. Es más, ni los rescatistas internacionales fueron bien aprovechados, aunque los había.

 

La participación del Estado en las zonas más afectadas fue bajo la lógica de contener y controlar. Así actuaron sus efectivos castrenses, la milicia y la marina, al presentarse con armas de alto calibre a establecer perímetros de seguridad, que no sólo obstaculizaban el pronto rescate de vidas humanas, sino que pretendían cohibir la organización de la gente. Es importante mencionar que hubo elementos del ejército y policía custodiando las tiendas trasnacionales de supuestos intentos de rapiña. No es difícil concluir que su plan era lavarle la cara al ejército, cuya presencia fue más evidente en aquellos puntos que mediáticamente eran más explotables. Todo esto bajo una lógica de guerra y de barrer de manera pronta con los escombros.

 

El Estado permitió y fomentó que se le pidiera a la población gastar su salario en acopios individuales, que luego buscó administrar de forma clientelar y asistencialista, mientras, los impuestos que de por si paga el pueblo fueron a parar al fideicomiso “Fuerza México”, fideicomiso que canalizará los recursos públicos y privados generando una acumulación de capital nada desdeñable para quienes lo administran: las grandes empresas; esas, que brillaron por su ausencia cuando se hizo el llamado general a la solidaridad y que ahora piden donaciones como si fuesen la víctimas de la tragedia.

 

Para el Estado y los grandes capitalistas, a quienes realmente representa, el territorio de la tragedia –Oaxaca, Guerrero, Tlaxcala, Morelos, Puebla, Ciudad de México– es visto como un espacio para generar ganancias, invirtiendo y especulando con las vidas de la gente.

 

Lo único que podrá detenerlos es la organización de los afectados por el sismo, la organización de la gente solidaria que desbordó las calles y acudió segura de que su ayuda era indispensable, porque sabíamos que el gobierno no haría nada.

 

El triple propósito de la estrategia estatal fue primero, ponernos a resolver la situación como pudiéramos y así canalizar la energía social, segundo, aparecer codo a codo con la gente para lavar su imagen y, tercero, aumentar las ventas de las grandes empresas.

 

Si algo aprenden los que insisten en dominarnos es que abajo siempre nos organizamos en su contra, así sucedió con el terremoto de 1985, así sucede ahora. Eso es lo que temen los de arriba y lo que intentaran contener a cualquier costo. El caos que han fomentado en forma de vacío institucional, desinformación, tragedia y muerte tiene por primer objetivo ese: imposibilitar la organización. Después de largos años atacando las múltiples formas de organización popular y social han dejado a una sociedad aislada, dividida, individualizada; no obstante, esta sociedad ahora intenta restablecer los lazos, buscamos reconocernos como compañeros de los mismos problemas.

 

Junto a la desorganización hay un segundo objetivo del Estado, encauzar nuestra indignación y nuestra solidaridad. Dejar que la “sociedad civil” tenga que resolver lo urgente y vital de la tragedia para así impedir que lo denunciemos; con estas formas el Estado nos desgasta, nos va quitando esperanzas y evita que nos organicemos para cambiarlo en el futuro. Nos quieren dejar la carga de la tragedia, quieren que seamos los responsables del fracaso.

 

La apuesta desde arriba es que no vamos a ser capaces de organizarnos pero están equivocados, nosotros, desde abajo, vamos a demostrarlo porque nos va la vida en ello.

 

Por eso llamamos a la organización solidaria y no sólo a la solidaridad. Hay que organizarnos que esto va pa' largo, hay que reconocernos con un enemigo en común: el sistema capitalista al que defiende y representa el Estado. Pero además, y más importante, hay que reconocernos con una causa común: tener una vida digna, digna porque podemos organizarnos para salvar vidas sin que ninguna instancia autoritaria nos lo impida; digna porque podemos participar y garantizar que la reconstrucción de las viviendas afectadas se haga con los requerimientos necesarios. Denunciemos la omisión, la negligencia y la administración que el Estado hace de la tragedia. Impulsemos la autoorganización de los de abajo para la reconstrucción del país desde los escombros.

 

Tejiendo Organización Revolucionaria

25 de septiembre de 2017

 

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The events surrounding the September 19 earthquake expose the Mexican state's strategy to manage the tragedy on its behalf, to hide its negligence, to profit from it and to seize the opportunity that has come to swell the pockets of those who have. This is what turns a natural disaster into a tragedy.

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The omission of the State and the administration of the tragedy | By Tejiendo Revolutionary Organization | September 25, 2017

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The protagonist of the tragedy is negligence, not trembling; Evidence of this is that it was presented as unexpected, although it is well known that it occurred in seismic zone; evidence is more than thirty years in which there was no progress in prevention: failed reviews after the earthquake of September 7 did not report that there were poorly constructed or structurally damaged schools; evidence is that building regulations are dead letter, murdered by the corruption of various levels of government and real estate business.

 

The urgency of the tragedy called for immediate solidarity and the urgent pressure of time concealed a fundamental fact: the State does have the material and human resources to face the catastrophe; has heavy machinery, equipment and specialized personnel, communication infrastructure, money, etc., if not occupied was because deicide not to do it, not because it was exceeded.

 

The Mexican state has high-tech resources to spy on us, for example, but did not put them at the service of rescuers to locate life inside the rubble. Nor was the state structure used to provide reliable and timely information that could save lives and channel aid. Moreover, not even the international rescuers were well exploited, although there were.

 

The participation of the State in the most affected areas was under the logic of containing and controlling. This was how their military officers, the militia and the navy acted, by introducing themselves with high-caliber weapons to establish security perimeters, which not only hindered the prompt rescue of human lives, but also sought to restrain the organization of the people. It is important to mention that there were elements of the army and police guarding the transnational tents of alleged predatory attempts. It is not difficult to conclude that his plan was to wash the face to the army, whose presence was more evident in those points that mediatically were more exploitable. All this under a logic of war and sweep quickly with the rubble.

 

The state allowed and encouraged that the population be asked to spend their salary in individual stores, which later sought to manage clientele and welfare, while the taxes paid by the people went to the trust "Fuerza México" trust that will channel the public and private resources generating a capital accumulation not negligible for those who administer it: large companies; those that shone by their absence when the general call for solidarity was made and now ask for donations as if they were the victims of the tragedy.

 

For the state and the great capitalists it represents, the territory of the tragedy - Oaxaca, Guerrero, Tlaxcala, Morelos, Puebla, Mexico City - is seen as a space to generate profits, investing and speculating with the lives of people.

 

The only thing that can stop them is the organization of those affected by the earthquake, the organization of the people of solidarity who overflowed the streets and came safe that their help was indispensable, because we knew that the government would do nothing.

 

The threefold purpose of the state strategy was first, to resolve the situation as we could and thus channel social energy, second, to appear side by side with people to wash their image and, thirdly, to increase the sales of large companies.

 

If there is something learned by those who insist on dominating us, it is that below we always organize against him, so it happened with the earthquake of 1985, this is what happens now. That's what they fear from above and what they try to contain at any cost. The chaos that they have fomented in the form of institutional vacuum, disinformation, tragedy and death has the first objective that: to prevent the organization. After many years attacking the multiple forms of popular and social organization have left an isolated, divided, individualized society; nevertheless, this society now tries to reestablish the bonds, we seek to recognize ourselves as companions of the same problems.

 

Along with the disorganization there is a second objective of the State, to channel our indignation and our solidarity. Let the "civil society" have to solve the urgent and vital of the tragedy in order to prevent denouncing it; with these forms the State wears us, takes away our hopes and prevents us to organize to change it in the future. They want to leave us the burden of tragedy, they want us to be responsible for the failure. The bet from above is that we will not be able to organize but they are wrong, we, from below, we are going to prove it because we are going to live in it.

 

That's why we call solidarity organization and not just solidarity. We have to organize that this goes for long, we have to recognize ourselves with a common enemy: the capitalist system that defends and represents the State. But more importantly, we must recognize ourselves with a common cause: having a dignified, dignified life because we can organize ourselves to save lives without any authoritarian instance preventing us; dignified because we can participate and ensure that the reconstruction of affected housing is made with the necessary requirements. Let us denounce the omission, neglect and administration that the State makes of the tragedy. Let us encourage the self-organization of those below for the reconstruction of the country from the rubble.

 

Tejiendo Organización Revolucionaria

25 September 2017

In the cold, morning hours of Operation Eagle Talon, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Doug A. Baker, a forward observer from West Memphis, Ark., assigned to Bayonet Company, 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, Task Force No Slack, listens to radio traffic while trying to stay warm in the Shigal Valley in eastern Afghanistan's Kunar province, March 18. The clearing operation lasted for three days and nights where troops had to brave the sun, cold, wind and Taliban.

Combined Joint Task Force 101

Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Mark Burrell

Date Taken:03.18.2011

Location:SHIGAL DISTRICT, AF

Related Photos: dvidshub.net/r/toofck

In every country in the Americas, the relationship between democracy and a free press has tensions and complications. In some countries, outright violence, censorship, or indirect restrictions on freedom of information threaten the free exchange of ideas and information, while in others, the threats to a free press are more subtle and pernicious—including disinformation, propaganda, and manipulation. In all cases, the press remains an essential tool to fight corruption and guarantee democratic accountability. As a result, efforts to expand transparency, freedom of expression, and access to information remain critical across the hemisphere.

 

The Inter-American Dialogue is proud to partner with Fundamedios USA, the Organization of American States, the IACHR Special Rapporteurship for Freedom of Expression, Freedom House, the Pan American Development Foundation, and Colpin for a sustained conversation on the interplay between media and democracy in the Americas. This conference brings together Hispanic journalists in the United States with their counterparts in Latin America to discuss common challenges.

Various Artists + Disinformation "Antiphony"

Ash International [Ash 3.4] 2xCD 1997

Sound Mirror photo © Julian Hills, Feb 1996

Sound Mirrors video © Barry Hale, 1997 -

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsR3qyJDk0c

 

The Sound Mirrors video – “Blackout” by Disinformation – has been widely exhibited in the UK and internationally since being filmed by Barry Hale and first exhibited in 1997. In 1999 and 2000 the video formed the centrepiece of the Arts Council funded “Blackout” exhibition, which toured to the Waygood Gallery (Newcastle), Broadway Centre (Nottingham) and ICA New Media Centre (London), since when the video featured in numerous group exhibitions and several Disinformation solo shows. The Sound Mirrors video has most recently been exhibited in the “Digest Sound” exhibition at the Witte Zaal [gallery] (Gent), as part of the Courtisane Film Festival in 2010, and at Le Bon Accueil [sonic arts gallery] (Rennes) in 2014.

 

The audio content of “Antiphony” consists (in large part) of remixes, by the contributing artists, of electromagnetic noise recordings, originally released by Disinformation in 1996, published by the record label Ash International.

 

A4 flyer advertising the concert and sound installation event at the former Caledonian Sector Royal Air Force “Rotor” radar bunker, near Troywood, Anstruther, Fife, Scotland, 25 September 1998. Visitors arrived outside a superficially innocuous rural outbuilding, and entered, to find not in fact a ground floor in a building filled with conventional furnishings etc, but a large open stairwell going down. One storey underground, visitors then found a 50 metre access corridor, disappearing off to one side, sloping down into darkness and into a mass of shockingly powerful and exhilarating sub-bass sound. Beyond the steel blast doors at the end of the corridor, visitors entered a 2 storey deep underground complex, filled with radar screens, military plotting tables and communications equipment. The bunker also served as a former Cold War era Regional Seat of Government…

 

www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/features/anstruther/tunnel.html

 

The “National Grid NO5608” concert featured electronic music from E.A.R. (Pete Kember, aka Sonic Boom), Disinformation, Add N to X, Project DARK and Mount Vernon Arts Lab, alongside the “National Grid” sound installation by Disinformation (which was set-up, using two stadium spec D&B Audiotechnik sub-woofers, in the electrical access chute to one side of the entrance corridor). The event’s title refers to the bunker’s Ordnance Survey map reference (with an obvious allusion to the “National Grid” sound installation). The leaflet photography and design were by Disinformation, and the event’s concert aspect received substantial coverage in (among others) The Guardian newspaper (G2 section, 23 Sept 1998, pages 14 and 15), while the installation aspect received substantial coverage in Mute magazine (issue 12, page 16, Jan 1999)…

 

www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/silence-suns

Disinformation – “Antithesis”

Virtual exhibition for Schemata Art

Hosted by New Art City + Corsica Studios

March 2022 onwards (indefinite exhibition)

 

Full description + user guide – rorschachaudio.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/disinformation...

 

3D view – newart.city/show/schemata-disinformation-antithesis

 

Catalogue view - newart.city/catalog/schemata-disinformation-antithesis

 

Curated and designed by Alice Hoffmann-Fuller, the latest exhibition in Schemata, Corsica Studios’ new experimental arts platform, takes place in a 3D digital rendering of Corsica Studios, hosted by on-line gallery platform New Art City. The “Antithesis” exhibition features brand new and archival work by the highly innovative and influential audio-kinetic art project Disinformation.

 

The Disinformation project’s exhibition for Schemata is in part inspired by the close proximity of Corsica Studios to the Brutalist architect Rodney Gordon’s iconic memorial to the electrical scientist Michael Faraday, installed, close to Corsica Studios, at the Elephant & Castle in 1961. The Disinformation sound artwork “National Grid” was first released on LP and performed live in 1996, and first exhibited as an art gallery sound installation in 1997. “National Grid” uses electromagnetic noise from live mains electricity to create a monolithic and immersive sound installation, which is conceived as a musical tribute to “the (creative) genius of electrification” [1]. The Michael Faraday memorial itself contains an electrical substation, which feeds high-voltage power to the London Underground; and it is consistent with the assertion that “art is not necessarily science, but science is always art” [2] that the original design for the Michael Faraday memorial envisaged this important work of public art as being a glass container (not, as it stands at present, a highly reflective steel box). On this basis, and in terms that are equally antithetical to the conventional wisdom of mainstream contemporary art, it can be argued that the true purpose of the architect’s original design was to enable members of the public to view what can be seen as the “real” work of art - meaning to view the electrical infrastructure.

 

[1] Hull Time Based Arts TOOT Festival Programme, Mute Magazine (special supplement) Oct 1999

[2] Joe Banks “The Rumble” (catalogue) Royal Society of Sculptors, March 2001

 

“Virtually all the physical phenomena we experience, such as light, chemical reactions, the properties of materials, and the transmission of signals along nerve fibres, are electrical in nature. In fact, the only non-electrical force we experience every day is the force of gravity.” – Harris Benson “University Physics” Wiley 1991

 

See also - www.flickr.com/disinfo/31910925141/

 

Seventeen Murrow Fellows visited Gracy College and were hosted by the Cox International Center Nov. 9, 2022. The Murrow Fellows are sponsored by the U.S. State Department and include international journalists from a variety of countries including South Korea, Australia, Laos, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and others. The theme of the discussion was "Media Responsibility in an Age of Disinformation for the Indo-Pacific."

Notting Hill Carnival 2022, Canon P, Industar 55mm F2.8; FP4

 

Claudia Jones, née Claudia Vera Cumberbatch (21 February 1915 – 24 December 1964) , was a Trinidad and Tobago-born journalist and activist. As a child, she migrated with her family to the US, where she became a Communist political activist, feminist and black nationalist, adopting the name Jones as "self-protective disinformation". Due to the political persecution of Communists in the US, she was deported in 1955 and subsequently lived in the United Kingdom. Upon arriving in the UK, she immediately joined the Communist Party of Great Britain and would remain a member for the rest of her life. She then founded Britain's first major black newspaper, the West Indian Gazette, in 1958, and played a central role in founding the Notting Hill Carnival, the second-largest annual carnival in the world.

Fot.: Sebastian Indra

Disinformation – “Antithesis”

Virtual exhibition for Schemata Art

Hosted by New Art City + Corsica Studios

March 2022 onwards (indefinite exhibition)

 

Full description + user guide - rorschachaudio.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/disinformation...

 

3D view – newart.city/show/schemata-disinformation-antithesis

 

Catalogue view - newart.city/catalog/schemata-disinformation-antithesis

 

Curated and designed by Alice Hoffmann-Fuller, the latest exhibition in Schemata, Corsica Studios’ new experimental arts platform, takes place in a 3D digital rendering of Corsica Studios, hosted by on-line gallery platform New Art City. The “Antithesis” exhibition features brand new and archival work by the highly innovative and influential audio-kinetic art project Disinformation.

 

The Disinformation project’s exhibition for Schemata is in part inspired by the close proximity of Corsica Studios to the Brutalist architect Rodney Gordon’s iconic memorial to the electrical scientist Michael Faraday, installed, close to Corsica Studios, at the Elephant & Castle in 1961. The Disinformation sound artwork “National Grid” was first released on LP and performed live in 1996, and first exhibited as an art gallery sound installation in 1997. “National Grid” uses electromagnetic noise from live mains electricity to create a monolithic and immersive sound installation, which is conceived as a musical tribute to “the (creative) genius of electrification” [1]. The Michael Faraday memorial itself contains an electrical substation, which feeds high-voltage power to the London Underground; and it is consistent with the assertion that “art is not necessarily science, but science is always art” [2] that the original design for the Michael Faraday memorial envisaged this important work of public art as being a glass container (not, as it stands at present, a highly reflective steel box). On this basis, and in terms that are equally antithetical to the conventional wisdom of mainstream contemporary art, it can be argued that the true purpose of the architect’s original design was to enable members of the public to view what can be seen as the “real” work of art - meaning to view the electrical infrastructure.

 

[1] Hull Time Based Arts TOOT Festival Programme, Mute Magazine (special supplement) Oct 1999

[2] Joe Banks “The Rumble” (catalogue) Royal Society of Sculptors, March 2001

 

“Virtually all the physical phenomena we experience, such as light, chemical reactions, the properties of materials, and the transmission of signals along nerve fibres, are electrical in nature. In fact, the only non-electrical force we experience every day is the force of gravity.” – Harris Benson “University Physics” Wiley 1991

 

See also - www.flickr.com/disinfo/31910925141/

April 29, 2022— Administrator Samantha Power met with Chief Executive Officer of YouTube Susan Wojcicki to discuss expanding institutional ties and coordination between USAID and YouTube to better address disinformation and to support efforts to increase the business viability of independent media outlets. Administrator Power underscored how disinformation jeopardizes a wide range of development priorities, and the two discussed the importance of combating misinformation and disinformation produced by repressive governments and targeted at vulnerable populations.

I used to go to these political meetings at 8am Saturday morning. Every week a new and interesting speaker would show up. James "Bo" Gritz, "America's most decorated Green Beret Commander" gave a talk about CIA drug running in the Golden Triangle during the Vietnam war. He also spoke a little about the Kennedy assassination something that was disinformation. After the talk I told him I'm an expert in the assassination and that there's a lot of disinformation being given out. He gave me his mailing address, I mailed him a three-page article I wrote in a local newspaper. A year or so later, Gritz came back with a new book. I flipped through the book, which his pretty wife was selling in the back of the room. There, near the back of the book were pictures clearly cut out from the article I wrote. A few weeks ago, I finally ordered a used copy of the book on Amazon to read what he wrote, which is pretty spot-on.

 

"Called to Serve" on Amazon.

FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller reportedly obtained a search warrant for records of the "inauthentic" accounts Facebook shut down early September 2017 and the targeted ads these accounts purchased during the 2016 election.

Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, told MSNBC earlier this month that he wants to know how sophisticated the Russian-bought ads were — in terms of their content and targets — to determine whether they had any help from the Trump campaign.

Facebook said in its initial statement that about 25% of the ads purchased by Russians during the election "were geographically targeted," and many analysts have found it difficult to believe that foreign entities would have had the kind of granular knowledge of American politics necessary to target specific demographics and voting precincts.

m.facebook.com/RBReich/posts/1704792166200039

www.businessinsider.com/mueller-obtains-warrant-for-russi...

 

The notorious Kremlin-linked ‘troll farm’ and the Russians trying to take it down By David Filipov October 8 2017

www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/the-notorious-k...

 

And then there is Russia, which has both a long history of disinformation campaigns and a domestic political culture largely untroubled by concerns of truth. It has taken to the dark side of social media like a rat to a drainpipe, not just for internal use, but for export, too.

Vladimir Putin’s regime has used social media as part of surreptitious campaigns in its neighbours, including Ukraine, in France and Germany, in America and elsewhere.

www.economist.com/news/briefing/21730870-economy-based-at...

 

"Toward the end of his twelve-day trip to Asia, President Trump tweeted,

“When will all the haters and fools out there realize that having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing. There [sic] always playing politics — bad for our country. I want to solve North Korea, Syria, Ukraine, terrorism, and Russia can greatly help!”

Trump has a point. Russia can, in theory, “greatly help.” But it probably won’t, at least not “greatly.” It won’t help because Vladimir Putin and his regime don’t think helping America is in their national interest."

by JONAH GOLDBERG November 17, 2017

www.nationalreview.com/article/453827/america-russia-alli...

The Real Culprit Behind North Korea’s Missile Threat May Be Vladimir Putin

www.nationalreview.com/article/451476/north-korea-vladimi...

 

Russia’s Dead End: An Insider’s Testimony from Gorbachev to Putin --- a review of the 2017 book by Andrei Kovalev.

www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21728877-andrei-kov...

 

"Russian leaders no longer venerate Lenin of the Bolshevik revolution, but they embrace the Soviet legacy. It lives on in the war in Ukraine, the search for enemies, the negation of law and the hatred fanned by the state."

The Russian Revolution and its Legacy | House of ruin www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21732798-house-emba...

Immersive soundscape installation exhibited at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Nov 2014 -

 

“Mesmerising... hypnotic and captivating... sublime” - Aesthetica Magazine

 

www.aestheticamagazine.com/disinformation-analysis-beauty...

 

www.artinscotland.tv/2016/disinformation-the-analysis-of-...

 

See also - www.flickr.com/disinfo/52404108274/

Collage of images depicting: pages from an asbestos industry propaganda booklet (top left) touting an historical Quebec church as an example of asbestos usage; and, additional Asbestorama images of the same church taken while visiting, including detail of the deteriorating asbestos siding.

 

Whether known to its parishioners or not, this lovely church building was being used by the "former" Chrysotile (Asbestos) Institute in their last major disinformation publication. As with most propaganda materials, important factual details are usually twisted or left out completely.

 

In this case, although the asbestos siding on the church was touted as a safe and lasting material, closer observation reveals the shingles are actually crumbly, deteriorating and exposing countless asbestos fibers. Where do the dislodged airborne asbestos fibers eventually end up?

 

Despite presenting so-called "counter-arguments" and including several glossy, but undetailed photos, the fallacy-filled propaganda pamphlet fails to persuade an informed reader; one who is aware the asbestos lobby has an over-reliance on "doubt-science" and that their best health-effect argument is claiming jumping off a ten-story building is better than jumping off a 40-story building.

 

It comes as unsurprising news that the recently announced closure of the Canadian-based Chrysotile (Asbestos) Institute has finally occurred. Essentially peddling hazardous asbestos and downplaying the harmful health effects of asbestos, it is only a matter of time for all pro-asbestos interests to be exposed for what it literally is, a dying industry.

'Disinformation'

 

60009 crossing Roch viaduct en route to Heywood, but what is wrong with this picture?

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George Galloway is a despicable shill for tyranny, who makes a living by slavishly supporting the imperialism and colonialism of Russia's ruling class, spreading their propaganda all over social media and cheerleading their war crimes.

 

i.imgur.com/ru9h5JA.png

 

As Russian disinfo is often targeted at Poland I'm not sure if he really is so ignorant about Auschwitz that he actually believes what he said, or if it's just another Russian lie he's happy to repeat like a deranged tankie parrot.

 

The primary purpose of Galloway's video is to have a tantrum about the fact that Russia wasn't invited to the 2023 commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz. In addition to his lie about Poland, he also blames the Ukrainians for the holocaust and claims that the countries of western Europe are all fascist (as well as suggesting that Russia should invade and "liberate" them from fascism)....

 

i.imgur.com/x9JPALS.jpg

 

He doesn't say anything at all about the reason why Russia wasn't invited - ie the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the numerous atrocities that Russia was committing there on a daily basis (which included the killing of elderly Jews who managed to survive Hitler's holocaust but not Putin's relentless bombing of civilian targets).

 

Not surprisingly, Galloway attributes the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in the Second World War to Russia, without mentioning any of the other Soviet Socialist Republics or that the Red Army was a multinational force which included a huge number of Ukrainians. He also doesn't mention the fact that the Soviets spent the first two years of the war in bed with Nazi Germany and only switched sides out of sheer desperation, or that they couldn't have defeated the Germans without the massive aid they received from the West (exactly the kind of aid he doesn't want the West to deliver to Ukraine), or that the Soviets committed some appalling war crimes against the countries they invaded and occupied from 1939-41 and subsequently re-occupied in 1944-45, after which they insisted on imprisoning the countries of central and eastern Europe behind the iron curtain for half a century.

 

He also doesn't seem to be aware that some of the worst Nazi collaborators were Russians - like the RONA brigade, who were responsible for some of the most horrific atrocities committed during the Warsaw Uprising. And if you compare what the RONA brigade did in Warsaw in 1944 to what the ruZZian invaders of Ukraine did in places like Bucha nearly 80 years later, there's not a great deal of difference....

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochota_massacre

 

As much as 20% of Nazi Germany's military manpower during the invasion of the USSR consisted of Soviet citizens fighting against their own country, about half of whom were ethnic Russians.

 

Although Auschwitz eventually became an extermination centre in which nearly a million Jews were murdered, the Germans created the camp in 1940 initially for the purpose of interning Polish slavic prisoners, who made up the majority of the inmates until 1942.

 

Over the years Auschwitz grew into a complex of three main camps and dozens of sub-camps....

 

The original camp, which the prisoners entered through the notorious gateway declaring "Arbeit Macht Frei", later became known as Konzentrationslager (KL) Auschwitz I.

 

Auschwitz II Birkenau, built in 1941, was larger than Auschwitz I, and was subsequently equipped with gas chambers and crematoria. German companies designed these extermination facilities and also supplied the Zyklon B. Most of the people who perished at Auschwitz were Jews who were sent from the Birkenau railway ramp to the gas chambers directly on arrival. Approximately 900,000 Jews met their fate in this manner.

 

KL Auschwitz III Monowitz, built in 1942, was a dedicated slave labour camp for the German chemical conglomerate IG Farben.

 

After the Second World War, the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum was created by an act of the Polish parliament (and has been financed by the Polish state ever since) to honour the victims of the crimes Nazi Germany committed at the camp.

 

According to Franciszek Piper, former director of the Historical & Research Department at the Auschwitz Museum, between 140,000 and 150,000 Polish slavs were interned at Auschwitz between 1940 and 1945, and at least 70,000 of them died there as victims of executions, medical experiments, brutality, starvation and disease.

 

There were no Polish guards at Auschwitz, and Nazi Germany was fully responsible for the planning, building and administration of the camp, which was located in occupied Polish territory that was annexed directly into the Third Reich.

 

By pretending otherwise Galloway is guilty of holocaust distortion, as per point 5 of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition: "attempts to blur the responsibility for the establishment of concentration and death camps devised and operated by Nazi Germany by putting blame on other nations or ethnic groups"....

 

However, spitting on the memory of the Polish victims in this way is par for the course for a human cockroach like him.

 

While Mark Zuckerberg prepares to testify before the Senate, 100 cardboard cutouts of the Facebook founder and CEO stand outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, April 10, 2018. Advocacy group Avaaz is calling attention to hundreds of millions of fake accounts still spreading disinformation on Facebook, and calling for the social media giant to submit to an independent audit. (Kevin Wolf / AP images for AVAAZ)

Disinformation – “Closed Circuit” – architectural + immersive sound installation in “Sounds & Shapes” exhibition at Drawing Matter, Somerset, curated by Matchett & Page, July 2021.

 

“If we sit and talk in a dark room, words suddenly acquire new meanings and different textures. They become richer, even, than architecture, which Le Corbusier rightly says can best be felt at night.” – Marshall McLuhan “Understanding Media” 1964

 

“Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality and [of] engendering dreams” [1], and, perhaps paradoxically, in the silo at Shatwell, a familiar architectural form is re-purposed to create a kind of strange laboratory, within which, through the manipulation of architectural acoustics, of auditory and haptic sensations, the formal aesthetics and symbolism of pure geometry, interact with (equally primal) tactile resonances and symbolism, to evoke long-forgotten reflexes, sense memories, and (arguably, to some extent) even dreams. Extrapolating the assertion that “architecture in general is frozen music” [2], the installation at Shatwell is created not only within the building, but by the building, with the building itself functioning as a massive loudspeaker, as a kinetic artwork, and as a musical instrument, generating “sound” which is heard through the fingertips, drawing visitors into an amniotic sound world of gently pulsing vibration and breath-like rhythms.

 

In geometric terms, the curvilinear surface of a cylinder is effectively infinite, while in projective geometry, a cylinder can be defined as a cone whose apex rests at infinity [3] – a grain silo is in effect a giant tin of beans, and every child who’s built a tin-can-telephone is familiar with at least some of the acoustic properties of plate steel. “In every art it is the most elementary and primitive means that achieve the most profound and beautiful effects” [4], and “Closed Circuit” – the sound installation by artist project Disinformation – uses simple microtonal tuning techniques to create a rhythmically active and dynamic sound mass, which oscillates around a core frequency of 40Hz. This is, in neurological terms, the exact frequency of so-called Gamma waves which is most strongly associated with the integration of visual consciousness and dreams [5][6], and is the exact frequency most used in the field of vibro-acoustic therapy [7].

 

“We move within a closed landscape whose landmarks constantly draw us toward the past. Certain shifting angles, certain receding perspectives, allow us to glimpse original conceptions of space, but this vision remains fragmentary. It must be sought in the magical locales of fairy tales and Surrealist writings: castles, endless walls, little forgotten bars, mammoth caverns, casino mirrors…” [1]

 

“Arnold began telling Alan about his recurrent childhood dream, or nightmare rather, in which he felt himself suspended in absolutely empty space while a strange noise would start, growing ever louder, until he woke up in a sweat. Alan asked what kind of noise it was, but Arnold could not describe it… Alan imagined the old hangar on the RAF camp… and made up a science fiction story… in which the hangar was itself a brain.” [8]

 

[1] Ivan Chtcheglov “Formulary for a New Urbanism” October 1953

[2] Friedrich von Schelling “Philosophie der Kunst” 1802

[3] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylinder

[4] Rudolf Arnheim “Radio” 1936

[5] Francis Crick and Christof Koch “Towards a Neurobiological Theory of Consciousness” Seminars in the Neurosciences, vol. 2, 1990

[6] Rodolfo Llinás and Urs Ribary “Coherent 40Hz Oscillation Characterizes Dream State in Humans” PNAS, vol. 90, 1993

[7] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibroacoustic_therapy

[8] Andrew Hodges “Alan Turing, The Enigma” 1983

 

“Closed Circuit” by Disinformation is commissioned and installed at Shatwell Farm, Somerset as part of the exhibition “Sounds & Shapes”, curated by Matchett & Page. The installation is open by appointment at weekends, 11am to 5pm, Saturday 17th July to Sunday 1st August 2021.

 

drawingmatter.org/disinformation-closed-circuit/

matchett.page/sounds_and_shapes

 

Initial site visit 22 Feb 2020, installation date 29 May 2021

Text by Joe Banks, copyright © 2 June 2021

Los acontecimientos alrededor del sismo del pasado 19 de septiembre ponen a la vista la estrategia que adoptó el Estado mexicano para administrar la tragedia en su beneficio, ocultar su negligencia, lucrar con ella y aprovechar la oportunidad que se viene para engrosar los bolsillos de quienes más tienen. Es esto lo que convierte un desastre natural en una tragedia.

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La omisión del Estado y la administración de la tragedia | Por Tejiendo Organización Revolucionaria | 25 de septiembre de 2017 - tejiendorevolucion.org/190917.html

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Quien protagoniza la tragedia es la negligencia, no el temblor; evidencia de ello es que éste fue presentado como inesperado, aunque es por demás sabido que se dio en zona sísmica; evidencia son los más de treinta años en que no se avanzó en la prevención: las revisiones fallidas después del temblor del 7 de septiembre no arrojaron datos de que hubiera escuelas mal construidas o con daños estructurales; evidencia es que los reglamentos de construcción son letra muerta, asesinada por la corrupción de los diversos niveles de gobierno y los negocios inmobiliarios.

 

La urgencia de la tragedia convocó a la solidaridad inmediata y la presión del tiempo urgente ocultó un hecho fundamental: el Estado sí cuenta con los recursos materiales y humanos para enfrentar la catástrofe; cuenta con maquinaria pesada, equipo y personal especializado, infraestructura de comunicación, dinero, etc., si no los ocupó fue porque deicidio no hacerlo, no porque se viera rebasado.

 

El Estado mexicano tiene recursos de alta tecnología para espiarnos, por ejemplo, pero no los puso al servicio de los rescatistas para localizar vida dentro de los escombros. Tampoco se usó la estructura estatal para proporcionar información fidedigna y pronta que pudiera salvar vidas y canalizar la ayuda. Es más, ni los rescatistas internacionales fueron bien aprovechados, aunque los había.

 

La participación del Estado en las zonas más afectadas fue bajo la lógica de contener y controlar. Así actuaron sus efectivos castrenses, la milicia y la marina, al presentarse con armas de alto calibre a establecer perímetros de seguridad, que no sólo obstaculizaban el pronto rescate de vidas humanas, sino que pretendían cohibir la organización de la gente. Es importante mencionar que hubo elementos del ejército y policía custodiando las tiendas trasnacionales de supuestos intentos de rapiña. No es difícil concluir que su plan era lavarle la cara al ejército, cuya presencia fue más evidente en aquellos puntos que mediáticamente eran más explotables. Todo esto bajo una lógica de guerra y de barrer de manera pronta con los escombros.

 

El Estado permitió y fomentó que se le pidiera a la población gastar su salario en acopios individuales, que luego buscó administrar de forma clientelar y asistencialista, mientras, los impuestos que de por si paga el pueblo fueron a parar al fideicomiso “Fuerza México”, fideicomiso que canalizará los recursos públicos y privados generando una acumulación de capital nada desdeñable para quienes lo administran: las grandes empresas; esas, que brillaron por su ausencia cuando se hizo el llamado general a la solidaridad y que ahora piden donaciones como si fuesen la víctimas de la tragedia.

 

Para el Estado y los grandes capitalistas, a quienes realmente representa, el territorio de la tragedia –Oaxaca, Guerrero, Tlaxcala, Morelos, Puebla, Ciudad de México– es visto como un espacio para generar ganancias, invirtiendo y especulando con las vidas de la gente.

 

Lo único que podrá detenerlos es la organización de los afectados por el sismo, la organización de la gente solidaria que desbordó las calles y acudió segura de que su ayuda era indispensable, porque sabíamos que el gobierno no haría nada.

 

El triple propósito de la estrategia estatal fue primero, ponernos a resolver la situación como pudiéramos y así canalizar la energía social, segundo, aparecer codo a codo con la gente para lavar su imagen y, tercero, aumentar las ventas de las grandes empresas.

 

Si algo aprenden los que insisten en dominarnos es que abajo siempre nos organizamos en su contra, así sucedió con el terremoto de 1985, así sucede ahora. Eso es lo que temen los de arriba y lo que intentaran contener a cualquier costo. El caos que han fomentado en forma de vacío institucional, desinformación, tragedia y muerte tiene por primer objetivo ese: imposibilitar la organización. Después de largos años atacando las múltiples formas de organización popular y social han dejado a una sociedad aislada, dividida, individualizada; no obstante, esta sociedad ahora intenta restablecer los lazos, buscamos reconocernos como compañeros de los mismos problemas.

 

Junto a la desorganización hay un segundo objetivo del Estado, encauzar nuestra indignación y nuestra solidaridad. Dejar que la “sociedad civil” tenga que resolver lo urgente y vital de la tragedia para así impedir que lo denunciemos; con estas formas el Estado nos desgasta, nos va quitando esperanzas y evita que nos organicemos para cambiarlo en el futuro. Nos quieren dejar la carga de la tragedia, quieren que seamos los responsables del fracaso.

 

La apuesta desde arriba es que no vamos a ser capaces de organizarnos pero están equivocados, nosotros, desde abajo, vamos a demostrarlo porque nos va la vida en ello.

 

Por eso llamamos a la organización solidaria y no sólo a la solidaridad. Hay que organizarnos que esto va pa' largo, hay que reconocernos con un enemigo en común: el sistema capitalista al que defiende y representa el Estado. Pero además, y más importante, hay que reconocernos con una causa común: tener una vida digna, digna porque podemos organizarnos para salvar vidas sin que ninguna instancia autoritaria nos lo impida; digna porque podemos participar y garantizar que la reconstrucción de las viviendas afectadas se haga con los requerimientos necesarios. Denunciemos la omisión, la negligencia y la administración que el Estado hace de la tragedia. Impulsemos la autoorganización de los de abajo para la reconstrucción del país desde los escombros.

 

Tejiendo Organización Revolucionaria

25 de septiembre de 2017

 

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The events surrounding the September 19 earthquake expose the Mexican state's strategy to manage the tragedy on its behalf, to hide its negligence, to profit from it and to seize the opportunity that has come to swell the pockets of those who have. This is what turns a natural disaster into a tragedy.

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The omission of the State and the administration of the tragedy | By Tejiendo Revolutionary Organization | September 25, 2017

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The protagonist of the tragedy is negligence, not trembling; Evidence of this is that it was presented as unexpected, although it is well known that it occurred in seismic zone; evidence is more than thirty years in which there was no progress in prevention: failed reviews after the earthquake of September 7 did not report that there were poorly constructed or structurally damaged schools; evidence is that building regulations are dead letter, murdered by the corruption of various levels of government and real estate business.

 

The urgency of the tragedy called for immediate solidarity and the urgent pressure of time concealed a fundamental fact: the State does have the material and human resources to face the catastrophe; has heavy machinery, equipment and specialized personnel, communication infrastructure, money, etc., if not occupied was because deicide not to do it, not because it was exceeded.

 

The Mexican state has high-tech resources to spy on us, for example, but did not put them at the service of rescuers to locate life inside the rubble. Nor was the state structure used to provide reliable and timely information that could save lives and channel aid. Moreover, not even the international rescuers were well exploited, although there were.

 

The participation of the State in the most affected areas was under the logic of containing and controlling. This was how their military officers, the militia and the navy acted, by introducing themselves with high-caliber weapons to establish security perimeters, which not only hindered the prompt rescue of human lives, but also sought to restrain the organization of the people. It is important to mention that there were elements of the army and police guarding the transnational tents of alleged predatory attempts. It is not difficult to conclude that his plan was to wash the face to the army, whose presence was more evident in those points that mediatically were more exploitable. All this under a logic of war and sweep quickly with the rubble.

 

The state allowed and encouraged that the population be asked to spend their salary in individual stores, which later sought to manage clientele and welfare, while the taxes paid by the people went to the trust "Fuerza México" trust that will channel the public and private resources generating a capital accumulation not negligible for those who administer it: large companies; those that shone by their absence when the general call for solidarity was made and now ask for donations as if they were the victims of the tragedy.

 

For the state and the great capitalists it represents, the territory of the tragedy - Oaxaca, Guerrero, Tlaxcala, Morelos, Puebla, Mexico City - is seen as a space to generate profits, investing and speculating with the lives of people.

 

The only thing that can stop them is the organization of those affected by the earthquake, the organization of the people of solidarity who overflowed the streets and came safe that their help was indispensable, because we knew that the government would do nothing.

 

The threefold purpose of the state strategy was first, to resolve the situation as we could and thus channel social energy, second, to appear side by side with people to wash their image and, thirdly, to increase the sales of large companies.

 

If there is something learned by those who insist on dominating us, it is that below we always organize against him, so it happened with the earthquake of 1985, this is what happens now. That's what they fear from above and what they try to contain at any cost. The chaos that they have fomented in the form of institutional vacuum, disinformation, tragedy and death has the first objective that: to prevent the organization. After many years attacking the multiple forms of popular and social organization have left an isolated, divided, individualized society; nevertheless, this society now tries to reestablish the bonds, we seek to recognize ourselves as companions of the same problems.

 

Along with the disorganization there is a second objective of the State, to channel our indignation and our solidarity. Let the "civil society" have to solve the urgent and vital of the tragedy in order to prevent denouncing it; with these forms the State wears us, takes away our hopes and prevents us to organize to change it in the future. They want to leave us the burden of tragedy, they want us to be responsible for the failure. The bet from above is that we will not be able to organize but they are wrong, we, from below, we are going to prove it because we are going to live in it.

 

That's why we call solidarity organization and not just solidarity. We have to organize that this goes for long, we have to recognize ourselves with a common enemy: the capitalist system that defends and represents the State. But more importantly, we must recognize ourselves with a common cause: having a dignified, dignified life because we can organize ourselves to save lives without any authoritarian instance preventing us; dignified because we can participate and ensure that the reconstruction of affected housing is made with the necessary requirements. Let us denounce the omission, neglect and administration that the State makes of the tragedy. Let us encourage the self-organization of those below for the reconstruction of the country from the rubble.

 

Tejiendo Organización Revolucionaria

25 September 2017

Fot.: Sebastian Indra

In a year when two out of three Latin Americans will elect new leaders, freedom of expression remains a crucial but fragile pillar of the region’s democratic systems. In 2017, 22 media workers were killed in the Americas, and other practices—from threats of violence to criminal prosecutions—were employed against individuals exercising their freedom of expression to better inform society. In addition, new challenges to democratic debate have emerged, including the deliberate, malevolent spread of disinformation—or “fake news”—and the corresponding danger of regulatory overreach by governments in response.

 

The Inter-American Dialogue, Reporters Without Borders, and the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) are pleased to host a public forum to analyze persistent threats, emerging challenges, and potential solutions for protecting freedom of expression in the Americas.

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.

Paper: A4 Leuchtturm 1917, Sketchbook (Hardcover)

Canvas size: A3

Pen: Copic Multiliner 0.35 and Stabilo 88 Fine Point

Markers: Copic, Spectrum Noir, and Flying Tiger.

 

Artist: Dr Makayla Lewis www.makaylalewis.co.uk

 

Blog post: makaylalewis.co.uk/2019/07/25/sketchnotes-from-bbc-machin...

 

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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 ultimate form of communications technology is language itself”

 

International Lawns, Field Trip No.15

Saturday 4 November 2017

Domo Baal, London

 

International Lawns present an exhibition installed in Domo Baal gallery, London, for one day only, 4 Nov 2017, with special guests Disinformation, presenting selections from the Colin Banks archive, and the Rural College of Art.

 

Disinformation is an art project whose work focusses on electricity, communications and language - exploring the creative potential of electronic messaging and laboratory technologies, investigating the psychology of perception of recorded and transmitted speech, and examining relationships between auditory signs and their visual representations. These interests converge in the fields of commercial telecommunications and corporate branding. The philosopher Marshall McLuhan characterised “advertising (as) the folk art of the 20th century”, while the design critic Stephen Bayley argues that “branding should be regarded as the contemporary equivalent of folk art”. The Disinformation project's own (somewhat tongue-in-cheek) branding is inspired by the philosopher’s notion of the “liar paradox”, while specific Disinformation artworks engage with brand entities such as the National Grid and London Underground. For Field Trip 15, Disinformation presents a carefully curated selection of branded telecommunications artefacts from the collection of the typographic designer Colin Banks. The book “Rorschach Audio - Art & Illusion for Sound” states that “the earliest form of sound recording technology was not a machine, but was written language”. Similarly, despite the emphasis that this exhibition places on branded telecommunications hardware, the display, alongside that hardware, of meticulously-crafted typographical and ideographic 'tools', helps emphasise the view that the ultimate form of communications technology is not so much these various forms of communications electronics, so much as language itself.

 

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President Obama delivers a keynote address at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center on disinformation and challenges to democracy in the digital information realm on April 21, 2022.

 

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