Gallery@Calit2:- PRESSURE FIELD: CALZADA by AUDINT (Max)

PRESSURE FIELD: CALZADA by AUDINT (Max) October 25, 2018 Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego Guest Speaker: Toby Heys Reader in Digital Media at the Manchester School of Art and head of the Future Technologies Research Host: Shahrokh Yadegari n a period that lasted from August to December 2017, the State Department of the USA began propagating information relating to so-called mysterious sonic attacks on its diplomats at the American Embassy in Havana, Cuba. Reports detailed puzzling symptoms in the victims of the alleged attacks, ranging from deafness to mild traumatic brain injury. Then, in October, a recording purporting to have captured the high-pitched sound of the supposed frequency-based weapon was made public. As waves of conspiracy theories started to emerge online – among them, that the sound was caused by malfunctioning surveillance technologies or that it was a tool of Cuban and Russian espionage – reporters from the mainstream media, including CNN, Reuters, the BBC a