AQUATIC CONVERSATIONS
Year: 2024
Format: Performance. Immersive sound, latent sculptures and projection
Science Collaborators: Sara Keen (Earth Species Project), Valeria Vergara (Raincoast Conservation Foundation), Jaclyn Aubin (University of Windsor, Raincoast Conservation Foundation), Marianne de Heer Kloots (University of Amsterdam).
Art collaborators: Cristina Tarquini
Production and curation: Ohme
With the support of: Earth Species Project, Experiment Foundation and Thea Boodhoo.
“Decoding non-human communication is an enormous challenge. It will only be solved through interdisciplinary collaboration in a wide range of fields, from machine learning to neuroscience, encompassing ethology and biology."
Katie Zacarian, CEO of Earth Species Project
Aquatic Conversations is part of on-going collaboration between Studio Antoine Bertin, computer scientist Sarah Keen (Earth Species Project), and bioacousticians Valeria Vergara & Jaclyn Aubin, exploring the conversations of cetaceans as mapped by artificial intelligence.
Through sculptural propositions and immersive sound compositions, the work invites audiences to experience the abstract mathematical spaces a machine creates when mapping the communications of other-than-human species.
In 2024, a first public presentation of work in progress took place at the CurieuCity Festival in P.A.R.T.S Brussels, curated by Ohme: an intimate live experience blending storytelling, data visualisations, light atmospheres, and tactile sculptures of beluga vocalisations.
