steve roden  steve roden  steve roden is a visual and sound
artist from los angeles. his work includes painting, drawing,
sculpture, film/video, sound installation, text works, and
performance.  roden’s working process uses various forms of
specific notation (words, musical scores, maps, etc.) and
translates them through self invented systems into scores; which
then influence the process of painting, drawing, sculpture,
writing, and sound composition. these scores, rigid in terms of
their parameters and rules, are also full of holes for intuitive
decisions and left turns. the inspirational source material
becomes a kind of formal skeleton that the abstract finished
works are built upon.  in the visual works, translations of
information such as text and maps, become rules and systems for
generating visual actions such as color choices, number of
elements, and image building. in the sound works, singular
source materials such as objects, architectural spaces, and
field recordings, are abstracted through humble