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“Who You Gonna Call?” – Sophie Mayer meets the Ghost Librarian

Posted 15 November 2013 by admin | Comments Off

_ 1. How to Approach a Ghost Librarian. Or, Dr. Venkman gets busted. When Ghostbusters’ hapless trio of paranormal investigators confront their first ghost, wreaking havoc in the stacks and card catalogues of the New York Public Library, Peter Venkman’s approach is to break the silence of the library – loudly, wittily and flirtatiously. Against [...]

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The Render Ghosts – James Bridle

Posted 14 November 2013 by admin | Comments Off

The Render Ghosts are the people who live inside our imaginations, in the liminal space between the present and the future, the real and the virtual, the physical and the digital.

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Munster Page Habit 2 by Mark Leahy

Posted 18 May 2013 by nathan | Comments Off

on being spoken through as conduit for sticky words [For Muster Page Habit 2, I propose an intersection of speech / thought and vocalisation that teases together a sensing of language as speaking through the body, that performs a talking that is thrown from the speaker outwards to a public / for a public / [...]

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Stop Press: The Electronic Voice Phenomena Tour

Posted 25 February 2013 by admin | Comments Off

A glitch-cabaret of haunted circuitry and phantom language. Taking its name and inspiration from Konstantin Raudive’s 1970s experiments into hearing unidentified voices in electronic interference, EVP is a brand-new programme of performance works divining the role of voices-from-beyond in the creative process. Whether muses, ancestors-cum-confidantes, the subconscious or ephemeral static, the project asks how voices [...]

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Rorschach Audio Book Release

Posted 28 January 2013 by admin | Comments Off

This just in from Joe Banks / Disinformation. Wonderfully argued, eccentric and impassioned (The Quietus) What are the connections between Leonardo da Vinci and Dick Whittington, between the BBC Monitoring Service and punk band The Clash, between wartime military intelligence work, visual arts theory, battle management systems, Spiritualism, radio and recording technology and criminal witness [...]

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Nathan Jones charts the development of EVP

Posted 19 December 2012 by nathan | Comments Off

The Electronic Voice Phenomena story so far… Auspicious beginings: a venn diagramme featuring eference points for the first EVP show – Star Trek, Rolf Harris, Gertrude Stein, Chris Packham, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and a Tuvan Throat Singer EVP is a curatorial strand, and something of a personal obsession, which started out just as a cool [...]

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Tom McCarthy interviewed by 3:AM

Posted 7 November 2012 by admin | Comments Off

Technology makes certain aspirations possible. [It] becomes a kind of depository for people’s fantasies and beliefs. Radio comes of age with the First World War, when almost every family in Europe loses a child. In the following years, séances, for example, become hugely popular, a massive thing. If in the 19th century it was all [...]

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