LONDON, ENGLAND.- Site Gallery will feature "Haunted Media," on view from 7 February to 20 March 2004. An exhibition of electronic media artworks examining the association of new media with supernatural phenomena.

The exhibition will include Susan Hiller’s influential installation Belshazzar’s Feast which relates in part to reports of the appearance of foreign beings seen on television screens after station close-down; Thomson & Craighead’s Obituary which explores the electronic ether as a space of overlap between technology and the spiritual and E-Poltergeist which is an intervention in a web browser which starts to misbehave, giving the feeling of a ghost in the machine. Susan Collins’s Spectrascope references parapsychological research and attempts to find this ghost in the machine by means of a pixel by pixel live internet link up to a haunted house; Scanner’s sound piece refers to the Electronic Voice Phenomenon of spectral voices in recordings of empty locations and presents a sound piece created from field recordings from spaces with ghostly associations. S Mark Gubb investigates backwards messages in records and plots connections with contemporaneous events. Lindsay Seers’s  ’then there were three’ is  based on the possible traumatic, psychological effect the invention of television had on the dummy that John Logie Baird used in his first TV transmission and Patrick Ward presents filmic moments in which TV screens are overtaken by static signalling a communicating other. 

Haunted Media Symposium: On the Disappearance of Ghosts - Saturday 20 March 11am - 5pm - £20.00 | £15.00 (concessions) | £10.00 (groups). This event will attune itself to artists’ inheritance of the mediumistic legacy, with contributions from artists and theorists. The weblogs of psychic enthusiasts have recently voiced anxieties about the ghostbusting properties of mobile phones. The perception that they may interrupt and disperse phantom wavelengths, suggests that the tele-empathy which has enabled electronic media to become a favoured site of haunting is not automatic. Media may afterall prove to be the location where the phantasmic chose to dictate its own obituary.

Participants include:  Pavel Buchler, Sean Cubitt, Susan Hiller, Pauline van Mourik Broekman, Jeffrey Sconce.