SEED (Sensory Experiences of Environmental Data Exhibition): Signal and Trace

SEED is a Research Ireland funded project at Dublin City University that brings researchers in the Social Sciences and STEM together with artists to turn environmental data into sensory experience. SEED: Signal and Trace presents six new commissions by Shane Finan, Cailean Finn, Adam Gibney, Clíona Harmey, István László and Fiona Mc Donald.

Each work receives a signal and leaves a trace. The signal is live: wind data drawn from the national grid, carbon dioxide flux radioed to a performer, three vases agreeing that a temperature record has been broken. The trace is what remains once it has passed: ink on paper, a shadow photographed at noon, plankton on silk, a gall on a wild rose. Instruments turn the environment into data; these works return that data to the senses, as sound, scent, touch, breath and sight. The exhibition asks what we come to know about environmental change when its data is felt rather than read, and what the readings leave out.

The SEED project is funded by a Research Ireland COALESCE Strand 2A grant. It is led by Dr. Trish Morgan from DCU’s School of Communications as Principal Investigator, along with Dr. Shirley Coyle from DCU’s School of Electronic Engineering as co-PI.

Location: The Tower, The Digital Hub
Exhibition Dates + Times: 6-22nd of November, Wednesday to Sundays, 12-6pm
Artist Name/s (Pronoun/s): Adam Gibney, Cailean Finn, Cliona Harmey, Fiona Mc Donald, István László, Shane Finan

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