Donna Legault is an experimental artist based in Ottawa, Canada. Her work explores opportunities afforded by technology to acknowledge human/non-human relations through gesture and resonance. Her research is disseminated through modalities of motion and sound via electronic installation, sculpture, drawing, and performance.
Near the limits of audible sound are vague acoustic territories on the fringe of human hearing. These sonic spaces are teeming with environmental and increasingly with urban sounds that lie just beyond human perception.
The Soft Transference series explores the relationship of the body to electronic devices and ambient electric fields.
This multi-sensory installation offers people the experience of physically engaging with their sonic environment. In this installation, a Pure Data program transforms live sound into speaker motion by altering pitch and reverberation.
Sound Garden engages the viewer/participant in the familiar extended mediation device of audio amplification through the use of microphones and multiple speaker arrays. The participants and observers, however, discover that their interactions transform the invisible motion of sound into visible form.
Sonic Horizon is an hommage to Nam June Paik whose work explored video as an art form and the medium of television as a mode of interactivity and dialogue…
