{"id":1388,"date":"2022-08-26T18:27:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T18:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.divfuse.com\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2022-09-15T08:17:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T08:17:48","slug":"translations-christopher-steenson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.divfuse.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/26\/translations-christopher-steenson\/","title":{"rendered":"Translations : Christopher Steenson [PAST]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sound Exhibition <\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9 September 2022 Friday 5-8pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10 & 11 September Saturday & Sunday 2:30-6:30pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Running Time : 12 minutes. Free Entry<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is one of the four exhibitions of work and artists selected from DIVFUSE <\/strong>Sound Archive No. 3 – an Open Call for pieces that are based on field recordings. We are pleased that this round of the Open Call is funded by the Arts Council England and the work was jointly selected between Project DIVFUSE<\/strong> and sound artist and tutor Jose Macabra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Connemara Landscape (Wind Stu<\/em>dy) (2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Connemara Landscape <\/em>uses the post-impressionist paintings of Belfast-born painter Paul Henry as a departure point for creating a \u2018sonic landscape\u2019. Focusing on the wind as its subject matter, the artwork is an attempt to collaborate with the weather, drawing on anthropologist Tim Ingold\u2019s idea of \u2018correspondences\u2019 (where humans respond with sensitivity, care and judgement to other beings, matter and elements).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The work explores the idea of collaboration and correspondence by using a number of sound recording techniques that focus on \u2018macro\u2019 soundscapes, to \u2018micro\u2019 moments of resonance and musicality, created by objects and plants interacting with the wind. The work was created in March 2022, while on residency at Interface, Connemara, situated in the remote locale of the Inagh Valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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False Detection<\/em> (2019\u201321)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

False Detection<\/em> is composed of sound recordings from the electromagnetic spectrum. Electromagnetic fields (EMFs) exist beyond the threshold of human perception, yet envelop the environment around us, emanating from electronic devices such as cellphone towers and WiFi transmitters. The risks of EMFs are debated amongst different communities, with research suggesting that EMFs can have detrimental effects on some forms of wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For False Detection<\/em>, the artist collected a series of audio recordings of EMFs and played them to a mobile phone app called BirdNet, which uses a machine learning algorithm to identify bird sounds in the user\u2019s surrounding environment. By iteratively manipulating the sound recordings and letting the BirdNet app listen to them, the artist was able to \u2018trick\u2019 the app into thinking that the EMF sounds being played were being made by birds residing in the local area. In this sense, the artwork exposes the hidden architectures and processes of the algorithm; making it heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Christopher Steenson is an artist based between the north and south of Ireland. With a background in psychology and the sonic environment, his work uses sound, analogue photography, writing and digital media to forge ways of \u2018listening to the future\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drawing upon the open methodologies of John Cage, and the idea of \u2018correspondences\u2019 proposed by anthropologist Tim Ingold, Steenson\u2019s sound-based artworks attempt to operate as a collaborative process, emerging as a field of potentialities between listeners and (speculative) environments. Often taking the form of installations, public interventions and broadcasts, these artworks use the conventions of radio and transmission-based infrastructure to locate audiences within a \u2018dreamtime\u2019 \u2013 a space in which pasts, presents, and futures are negotiated on a continuum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent presentations include: Soft Rains Will Come<\/em> at VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art (2022), curated by Emma Lucy O\u2019Brien and Benjamin Stafford; Sonorities sound biennale (2022); the group exhibition Urgencies<\/em> at CCA Derry~Londonderry (2021), curated by Locky Morris and Catherine Hemelryk; and the national public sound artwork On Chorus <\/em>(2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image from Christopher Steenson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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