In-formation, 2023
Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Artist in Residence.
In-formation was a site-specific project that resulted in a solo exhibition and featured works created during a one-month residency at Leitrim Sculpture Centre. The work is an extension of the visual soundscapes theme and project, where visual artworks are created from audio recordings that have been digitally manipulated with varying mathematical and data/information processing principles.
Sound is a single, yet rich source of information, a physical source that invokes a non-physical reaction, beginning in the natural world and ending in the mind of the observer.
In the works for this exhibition, Dees explores the perception and transmutation of sound as it is transformed into a visual mode. Dees accomplishes this by writing mathematical algorithms inspired by his experience of four types of landscape in North Leitrim: forest, river, sea and mountain. These algorithms in-turn respond to information from sound recordings made within the same locations, and in doing so, in-form the creation of graphic elements or ‘equivalences’ using plotting/drawing devices fed by vectoral information.
By using information and data from the original sources to ‘in-form’ the next stage of the mutation, the artist ensures the physical connection between different phenomena is maintained. This creates an event with a different sensory mode that challenges the viewer's perception. The resulting visual soundscapes are displayed on paper and stretched and unstretched canvases in the gallery. Also on show is the plotting machine used to make the work.
https://www.leitrimsculpturecentre.ie/whats-on/artist-in-residence/aaron-dees