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.
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. To understand Paik’s process, I repurposed a CRT TV by hacking the internal electrical circuits to visualize the sounds of the ambient surroundings then took the work in my own direction by embedding a surveillance microphone and amplifier. This repurposed TV rests high in the corner of the gallery and is patiently watched by the eye of a digital surveillance camera in a dialogue between surveilled sound and artificial sight, analogue and digital media. The real-time visualization of ambient sounds in the gallery space is distributed over a bank of monitors that translate the sonic contributions of visitors and the ambient sounds of their surroundings into a horizon of undulating waves.
Interview with Jason St-Laurent, Carrie Colton, September 09, 2015
A Very Big Bang of Ottawa Art, at SAW Gallery, Peter Simpson - The Big Beat, August 21, 2015
Donna Legault: 'Transformations' in Feminism, Sally Deskins - Pittsburg Articulate, October 2, 2015
Subtle Territory, Resonant Variations and Sonic Horizon.
July 31 - October 2, 2015
Big Bang, Saw Gallery
Ottawa, ON
Sept. 1 - October 2, 2015
Paul Mesaros Gallery,
West Virginia University,
Morgantown, WV
