What can you hear? Are the waves crashing?
This is moving image piece that explores the entanglement of water systems, care ethics, and adaptive technologies through the lens of hydrofeminism. At once poetic and computational, the work reflects on how we might reimagine ourselves and our environments as fluid, interconnected, and in constant transformation.
In this double layered video, the artist moves in front of recordings of water. The sea laps gently, semi-transparent to her presence. As her hands move in slow, deliberate gestures, they are tracked via computer vision — their x and y coordinates mapped to modulations of white and pink noise. These layers of sound mimic the sea’s rhythms, producing an artificially generated soundscape that blurs the boundary between natural and synthetic, embodied and virtual.
This choreography of gesture and noise becomes a dialogue between body and algorithm, echoing the themes of fluidity, care, and permeability central to hydrofeminist thinking. By using AI not as a tool of control but as a collaborator in sonic interpretation, the work resists rigid, extractive logics and gestures toward more relational, responsive systems.
The piece invites viewers to dwell in a space of watery slowness — where meaning is not fixed but felt. It prompts contemplation of how all decisions surrounding water systems ripple outward, affecting not only environments but also bodies, identities, and futures.
Exhibited at Changing Courses Forum, Policy Lab, Somerset House
Can Water Be Thirsty? Storm Studio, Brooklyn