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

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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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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Research

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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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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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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