Index of Water References
Created: Thu Jul 10 2025 20:00:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
An ongoing list of projects, events and people that work with water.
Projects
Radio Amnion by Jul Thoms | 2021-present
Sonic transmissions of various artists during each full moon cycle. The sonic works are played in the Pacific Ocean via a neutrino telescope. Here, instead of listening to the ocean, artists and Thoms are playing sounds into the ocean for the underwater world.
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Coral Sonic Resilience by Marco Barotti | 2025
Sound sculptures that are installed in damaged reefs and coral nursies where it emits natural sounds. This helps with restoration and repopulation of marine life. The project is based in science, but the outcome is rooted in art and perhaps ecological activism.
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Learning From Ice by Susan Schuppli | 2017-2025
A research project everything about ice cores and glaciers from the science behind them to community-driven knowledge from indigenious communities. First came across this project in Fieldwork for Future Ecologies and the first entry of her fieldnotes is from 2017. This large scale research project is impressive because it spans across the Canadian Arctic, Svalbard Archipelago, and the Hindu Kush Himalayas. The research is then compiled into a documentary format.
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Watershed (Tough Love) by Mark Ijzerman | 2025
An installation combining projected visuals, sculpture and soundscapes from the Love River in Taiwan. The project aims to higlight how water connects all living systems through a single droplet.
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The River by Jana Winderen and Tony Myatt | 2024
A composition of sound recordings of the River Thames. The installation highlights the sounds made by underwater creatures to the noise pollution of the bustling city. Reminds me of another project by Mark Dion titled Tate Thames Dig, except this focuses on human objects in the river.
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Bodies of Water by Ludwig Berger | 2022
A trilogy that documents the alpine waters of Switzerland through photography and hydrophone recordings. Outputs include books, vinyls and performances.
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Co_Sonic 1884 km² by Robertina Šebjanič | 2021
An audio-video project about the co-existence between rivers and its inhabitants. The soundscape is AI-generated and the visuals have a digital aeshtetic through the clear boundaries of boxes as frames contrasting the content.
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Natural Networks by Six:Thirty x Matteo Loglio | 2017
Collecting environmental data along the canals of London, UK with a custom made buoy inspired by offshore oil rig lifeboats. The data is then translated into a series of poems, giving a voice to nature.
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Mineral Accretion Factory by David Énon | 2011-present
An experimental approach to material production while also rehabilitating coral reefs. 'Biorock' was first developed by Wolf Hilbertz and Thomas J. Goreau.
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Riverkin | 2021-present
An initiative born out of ETH Student Project House, Riverkin is a sensor that measures water flow, temperature, sediment, and conducitivity. The product is created by Jessica Droujko during her doctorate at ETH Zurich. The sensor is meant to be used in remote areas where its difficult to gather data or where the data doesn't exist yet.
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Rituals and Reflections by Nenand Popov (artist) & James Whitehead (biologist) | 2022
A series of performances with the Panke river in Berlin such as using the acoustic properties of the bridge or working with the river by having participants on both sides of the river passing a rope to each other. The one that interests me is the 6 hydrophone setup along different areas of the river to create a sound-art performance. Learn More
Research
Rhodaine Urbaine
A research project conducted by Labortory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies and EPFL that examines the urban potential along the Rhône. A question they explore is how to maintain a city-river balance and what this could look like in the future. One specific site that they examine is La Jonction in Geneva.
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Atlas of Looking at Water
An examination of the ordinary like a glass of water to make connections to the climate crisis. The research is presented in a non-academic and approachable manner. Some projects range from documentation and artistic like Waterscape by Sze Tsung Nicolás Leong to innovative methods by Derya Akkaynak to clearly see the bottom of seabeds.
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Ecodata – Ecomedia – Ecoaesthetics
Not related to water, but could be relevant. It's a research project examining the role of technology and media art projects and our relationship to ecology. The context is alpine forest Pfynwald/Bois de Finges in Switzerland.
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DIY Hack the Panke
Festivals and Events
Bodies of Water | 2024
Two-day festival around the River Panke in Berlin, Germany.
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Project H2O | 2024
Four-day event celebrating water in Geneva, Switzerland through artistic projects.
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Artists, Practioners and Researchers
Richard Long
English artist working with the land to create ephmeral, performative and non-destructive pieces. Some water related projects are Water Walk where he transports water from one river to another or using water from rivers to create abstract drawings.
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Benoît Renaudin
Artist and researcher based in Geneva. His current research is around designing devices to record sounds from fish to better understand our relationship to underwater aquatic creatures.
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Philip Samartzis
An Australian sound artist and scholar who teaches at RMIT. First discovered him in Fieldwork for Future Ecologies where he shares his project on the Boleskine in Loch Ness, Scotland. His research and art practice involves sound recordings to document and re-present ever changing natural landscape. Learn More
Susan Schuppli
Artist and researched based in the UK. Also heard of Schuppli in Fieldwork for Future Ecologies where she shares her fieldnotes on her experiences with ice and ice coring.
Flavien Gillié
Brussel-based sound artist. Has a field recording of the Arve river in Geneva. radio aporee ::: maps - Les Minoteries, 1205 Genève, Suisse
Tutorials
DIY Hydrophone by Felix Blume
Building a homemade microphone to record underwater sounds.
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I Built My Own Hydrophone (DIY Underwater Microphone) by Jonas Fasching
Another tutorial which was followed from the Blume's tutorial.
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The Gladys Hydrophone by DJJules
A more advanced tutorial than the previous one since it requires 3D printing but the STL files are provided. There's also a PCB requried where the other tutorial just has hte piezo sensor.
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