William Hogarth, Disinformation The Analysis of Beauty installation

The Analysis of Beauty is a book, selfpublished by the artist William Hogarth in 1753, in which Hogarth put forward his ideas about the aesthetics and symbolism of the sinusoidal, sshaped, waving, snakelike, and (as Hogarth put it) Serpentine Line. Serpentine Lines are produced in The Analysis of Beauty tribute installation by art project Disinformation in the form of musical sinewaves, created using audio frequency outputs from laboratory oscillators, which are displayed on the screen of a laboratory oscilloscope. These signals manifest as a slowly rotating ropelike pattern of phosphorescent green lines, (subjectively but strongly) reminiscent of DNA. After watching the pattern for a little while, its easy to persuade these lines to fuse into a what appears to be a solid object, and, in practical terms, the best challenge viewers can set themselves is to decide which direction that object appears to be rotating in Sometimes the form appears to be flat, sometimes threedimensional. So