He even convinced central figures in the scene to bite on his lures. A former Air Force intelligence operative, he spend much of the 1970s and 1980s spreading false information about sightings, crashes, and encounters with Extraterrestrial Biological Entities. Richard Doty is something of a godfather misinformation, hoaxes, and UFO sightings. Mirage Men digs into a few of the more well known instances of misdirection. What better way to diffuse this situation than to point everyone in the wrong direction? At the height of the Cold War, one of the fears was that Soviet agents had infiltrated the alien hunter ranks, and were after valuable intelligence. Sifting through every available document, report, and even trash bin, they could find, they occasionally did uncover a bit of sensitive information, including highly protected military secrets. They were digging through everything, sometimes literally, searching for answers. Alien fanatics are known to be a dogged bunch, with an attitude and work ethic matched by few other subcultures.
There were many reasons why they did this. He’s a regular speaker at galleries, universities and curious occult gatherings.Going back to the most widely known incident of a UFO crash, at Roswell, New Mexico, Mirage Men peels away the layers to expose how various government agencies, including the CIA and NSA, went about planting false information in order to keep the populace distracted. Mark also makes experimental electronic music in the duos Teleplamsiste and Luminous Foundation. His writing has appeared in numerous anthologies, magazines, journals and newspapers – most recently Magic: Documents of Contemporary Art (2022), Death: A Graveside Companion, and catalogues for the Waking the Witch touring exhibition, the Courtauld Institute and the New Gallery. Mark Pilkington is the founder of the independent publishing house Strange Attractor Press, which he has run for almost two decades, and the author of Mirage Men (2010) and Far Out 101 Strange Tales from Science’s Outer Edge (2007). In this illustrated talk, Mark will look the development of psychotronic technologies from the 19th century to the present, a journey that incorporates experimental medicines, science fiction fandom and some of the world's most prestigious art galleries. But it is too simple to reject all psionic devices out of hand as deceptions or slight-of-mind Instead, we can perhaps best understand them as technological adaptations of ancient, sympathetic magical practices, a magic that feeds on, and is fueled by, the conviction of both the practitioner and the subject. From an orthodox materialist perspective, they are cargo cult technology, a fantasy of science. Psychotronic devices fuse aspects of vitalism, electromagnetic field theory and psychic sciences like telepathy, psychometry and dowsing.
In this illustrated presentation, Mark Pilkington presents a historical overview of psychotronic devices - the radiant collision point of witchcraft, art and technology. Clarke famously observed, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, then can we accept that any sufficiently advanced magic is also indistinguishable from technology?" A temporary streaming link will be emailed after the event concludes. Please check your spam folder and if not received, email. Ticketholders: A Zoom invite is sent out at 3:30 pm EDT on the day of the event to the email used at checkout.
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