FLASH | Demystification Committee

FLASH is a sonic reenactment of one of the fastest stock market crashes in history, which occurred on May 6, 2010, known as Flash Crash.

As a set of strange events took place globally, from uncertain election outcomes to street demonstrations against European austerity policies, commentators searched for a meaningful narrative to the stock market accident. Speculations continued until 2015, when a London trader was arrested and extradited to the US to be investigated on market manipulation charges.

Accused of inflating the financial market to profit from its chaos, the trader admitted to the use of software hacked to enable "spoofing", a tactic used to alter the perceived supply and demand of a commodity on the stock market in order to affect its value.

FLASH was performed on the 8th anniversary of the crash, translating May 6, 2010 trading data from the New York Stock Exchange and Chicago Stock Exchange into sound.

2019 (solo): NETWORK ENSEMBLE
GLUQBAR, milan
(release): Flash Demons
MILLE PLATEAUX
Audiovisual genealogy of financial algorithmic collapse, released as a custom USB
2018 (streaming): IMPAKT Festival
HET HUIS, utrecht
On the sonification of stock market crashes, part of a panel on algotrading; Automated Lands
NEW INSTITUTE, rotterdam; On work
SERPENTINE GALLERIES
(talk): Alt-Age
DESIGN MUSEUM, london; Something or Other
LCC, london

FLASH is a sonic reenactment of one of the fastest stock market crashes in history, which occurred on May 6, 2010, known as Flash Crash.
As a set of strange events took place globally, from uncertain election outcomes to street demonstrations against European austerity policies, commentators searched for a meaningful narrative to the stock market accident. Speculations continued until 2015,
when a London trader was arrested and extradited to the US to be investigated on market manipulation charges.
Accused of inflating the financial market to profit from its chaos, the trader admitted to the use of software hacked to enable "spoofing", a tactic used to alter the perceived supply and demand of a commodity on the stock market in order to affect its value.
FLASH was performed on the 8th anniversary of the crash, translating May 6, 2010 trading data from the New York Stock Exchange and Chicago Stock Exchange into sound.

the DEMYSTIFICATION COMMITTEE studies the intensities of late capitalism, engaging with its networks, interfaces and excesses; it is chaired from london and berlin;

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2021.6.2 (live): INTERFACE CHAOS LIVE
CAFE OTO
..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................; INTERFACE CHAOS LIVE
CAFE OTO, london
.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... A screening of INTERFACE CHAOS accompanied by SKY H1's live soundtrack
2020 (live): CTM x TRANSMEDIALE
BERGHAIN, berlin; CTM 2020 x TRANSMEDIALE
BERGHAIN, berlin
(solo): OFFSHORE MATTERS
AKSIOMA, ljubljana
(interview): INTERFACE CHAOS
NERO
An interview on the themes of INTERFACE CHAOS (2019), including excerpts; CHASING ILLICIT MONEY
NEW YORK TIMES
Investigative journalism on offshore banking, touching on OFFSHORE SS18
(streaming): Moneylab #8
AKSIOMA
A panel on artistic explorations of tax havens, led by an investigative journalist
(screening): INTERFACE CHAOS
FORUM STADTPARK, graz
(focus group): RAVENSBOURNE UNIVERSITY
london; BA ARCHITECTURE
RAVENSBOURNE UNIVERSITY, london
(release): RHYTHM, CHAOS & NONPULSED MAN
LD10; RHYTHM, CHAOS AND NONPULSED MAN
LA DELEUZIANA
Text, music and images on Deleuze and Guattari's concepts of chaos and rhythm
2019 (solo): NETWORK ENSEMBLE
GLUQBAR, milan
(group show): A SCHOOL OF SCHOOLS
C-MINE, genk; PORTO DESIGN BIENNIAL
TRINDADE, porto; A SCHOOL OF SCHOOLS
LUMA, arles; EMERGENCE
LCC, london
(screening): Ø.29
CORSICA STUDIOS, london; PORTO DESIGN BIENNIAL
CAMPO 24 DE AGOSTO, porto; INTERFACE CHAOS
TRUST, berlin; ANTIUNIVERSITY NOW
THE MONTPELIER, london
(live): DESIGNING TIME
DESIGN MUSEUM, london
(residency): DESIGN SYSTEMS
SHARED INSTITUTE, porto
(release): Flash Demons
MILLE PLATEAUX
Audiovisual genealogy of financial algorithmic collapse, released as a custom USB
(focus group): WEISSENSEE KUNSTHOCHSCHULE
berlin; MA VISUAL COMMUNICATION
WEISSENSEE KUNSTHOCHSCHULE, berlin; MA GRAPHIC MEDIA DESIGN
LCC, london
2018 (group show): 4^th Design Biennial
ARTER, istanbul; 4^th Istanbul Design BIENNIAL
ARTER, istanbul; transmediale face value
HKW, berlin; Situation #111
FOTOMUSEUM, winterthur; Projected.Capital
ROEHRS & BOETSCH, zurich; DIGITAL DESIGN WEEKEND
V&A, london
(live): Radical Networks
SPEKTRUM, berlin; Alt-Age
DESIGN MUSEUM, london; transmediale face value
HKW, berlin
(streaming): IMPAKT Festival
HET HUIS, utrecht
On the sonification of stock market crashes, part of a panel on algotrading; Automated Lands
NEW INSTITUTE, rotterdam; Automated Landscapes
HET NIEUWE INSTITUUT, rotterdam
On infrastructures and geographies of avoidance, from data centres to tax havens; Borderline Festival
ONASSIS, athens; Borderline Festival
ONASSIS STEGI, athens
"Approach from West India Quay, see what corpses sprouted on the Isle of Dead"; transmediale face value
HKW, berlin
On ways and means of making offshore and other financial processes visible; MoneyLab #4
SOMERSET HOUSE, london
A talk on offshore investigative w—i—p, part of a panel on play in art and finance; On work
SERPENTINE GALLERIES; Algorithmic Superstructures
SERPENTINE GALLERIES
#algotrading #crashcore #spoofing #flashcrash #may62010 #podcast
(talk): Alt-Age
DESIGN MUSEUM, london; Something or Other
LCC, london
(interview): BUON PARADISO FISCALE A TUTTI
NOT
An interview on recent and future work of the Demystification Committee; Staying Alive
WE MAKE MONEY NOT ART
A review of OFFSHORE SS18 (2018), part of the 4^th Istanbul Design Biennale; What Audre Lorde's language of self care can teach
FRIEZE
Reviewing OFFSHORE INVESTIGATION VEHICLE (2017—18) at transmediale
(release): A DAY IN THE LIFE OF
SCHLOSS-POST
Fictional tales of a real puppet, directing a Seychelles International Business Company; THE OFFSHORE ECONOMIST
RIZOSFERA
Fiction, poetry, legalese and a shifting layout for a publication on offshore finance
(focus group): MONEYLAB #4
SOMERSET HOUSE, london
2017 (live): transmediale vorspiel
NON, berlin; Inside Terrain Vague
UMLAUT, london
(talk): the influencers
CCCB, barcelona
(group show): rundgang
UDK, berlin; holding space
THE BRICK CUBE, london; uncertainty playground
LCC, london
(residency): Vilem Flusser Residency Program
berlin
(focus group): london design festival
LCC, london; Vilem Flusser Residency Program
berlin; Vilem Flusser Residency Program
PRETIUMOFFICES, berlin
(release): SELECTED NETWORK STUDIES
NUKFM
Audiovisual experiments with wireless networks, released as custom SD card
2016 (screening): DELEUZE STUDIES
TRE UNIVERSITY, rome; DELEUZE STUDIES
ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY, rome
(release): CHAOS VARIATION I
NUKFM
Remixing a 1975 speech by Felix Guattari on the advent of informatics machines