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Exhibitions currently running:
Aura Satz - Aura Satz premieres a new film and sound installation that centres on the invention of 'frequency hopping', patented in 1941 by Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil. The 'Secret Communication System' enabled radio-controlled guidance of torpedoes by synchronising frequency changes in transmitter and receiver, thus avoiding enemy detection. It drew on Antheil's failed attempt to synchronise 16 pianolas in his 1924 avant-garde masterpiece Ballet Mécanique and has since become the basis for today's spread-spectrum technology, widely used in wireless telephone and wi-fi technology. Satz references these technologies to explore visual, musical and data notation, as well as its encryption, synchronization, and decipherment. Until 26 May.
The Alternative Guide to the Universe - This exhibition surveys the work of individuals who create alternatives in art, science and architecture. The exhibition is focused on self-taught practitioners whose work is generally produced outside of established channels and official institutions. The Alternative Guide to the Universe features a range of contributors from fringe physicists to the inventors of new languages, from artists who map cities of the future to others who design imaginary technologies. Inspiringly original and bracingly eccentric, their work re-imagines our social and cultural conventions in ways that fearlessly depart from accepted ways of thinking. Taken together, it conjures a kind of a parallel universe where ingenuity and inventiveness trump common sense and received wisdom. Until 26 August.
Hayward Gallery
South Bank Centre
Belvedere Road
London SE1 8XZ
Telephone:
020 7921 0813
Map
Daily 10am – 6pm
Late nights: Tuesday and Wednesday until 8pm, Fridays until 9pm.
Closed closed on 24, 25, 26 and 27 December and 1 and 2 January. www.southbankcentre.co.uk
