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.
Transmission is an assemblage of individual square rods of steel. Each rod is hand wrought from a process of mapping different frequencies of sound occurring at the same amplitude from drawings in graphite into individual metal lines. These elements can be arranged in response to the architectural environment and the movement of sound through the space. The interplay between 2D and 3D is also explored through an optical illusion (seen below) in which the waveforms rise three dimensionally from the floor. This piece was documented at Patrick Mikhail Gallery as part of the Interface Exhibition.
