People to Thank
Created: Mon Jun 02 2025
Running list of people I've talked to about my thesis and the notes from the interactions.
Benoît Renaud
March 18, 2025
- Presentation at Training to Research. Mentioned situated practice which is something I've been thinking about for thesis. How to pursue a thesis that is unique to where I am (school, city and resources avaiable).
April 28, 2025
- Presentation to Media Design class. One thing that stuck was go with your obsession which pushed me in the direction of researching about the confluence.
May 19, 2025
- Video chat
- Reading references
- Le fleuve aui voulait ecrire de Camille de Toledo
- Fieldwork for Future Ecologies: Radical practice for art and art-based research by Onomatopee
- Design. De la nature à l'environnement. Nouvelles définitions. / Design. From Nature to Environment. New Definitions by Catherine Geel
- Être la rivière de Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde
- L'eau et les rêves de Gaston Bachelard
- La Ville Comme Partition Ouverte de Christopher Dell
- What Design Can’t Do: Essays on Design and Disillusion by Silvio Lorusso
- Ce que disent les pierres de David Énon
- Terra Forma: Manuel de cartographies potentielles de Frédérique Aït-Touati, Alexandra Arènes, Axelle Gregoire
- Invitation to particiapte in 4-day workshop at La Maison de la Rivière
August 21, 2025
- Share some books with him that might be of interest. Such as Sing Like a Fish, Is a River Alive?, and Digital Vision and the Ecological Aesthetic.
August 27, 2025
- In return, he shared more references:
Daniel Tapper
May 27, 2025
- Video chat
- Suggested to do three areas for hydrophone recordings: one for Arve, Rhône and the confluence.
- To make it performative. I mentioned that on my morning walk I thought about fishing and wondering if there's a way to make a connection with reeling, throwing, catching with a fishing rod.
- Shared project references. Haunted Ecologies by Thomas Pausz and practice-based researcher Nicole Clouston.
June 10, 2025
- Project share https://www.instagram.com/p/DKq4jLryLjs/
Rhodi Iliadou
September 22, 2025
- Posed the question if there are any studies on white noise in nature, ex. the confluence, versus white noise from the city.
Daniel Pinkas
I should have documented notes from my thesis advisor because I tend to forget what he said. I guess better late than never.
September 29, 2025
Met with Daniel to review my first draft of thesis. He provided notes line by line, which I'm extremely grateful for. Here are references he shared:
- James Bridle work with rivers
- Romance is a single serving website (no longer available). It displayed how high the tide is at the London Bridge. Reminds me of applying the river data to data visualiation. I also thought how I can use the temp and flow rates of the Arve and Rhone. Here, Bridle positions the project as a weather forecast project.
- Cloud Index is a project merging weather and political poll data with machine learning. Looking at the cloud as a way for future weather forecast possibilities.
- A Ship Adrift
- Wasn't familiar with his artworks, only his writing. There's also this YouTube video of him talking about rivers.
- Peter Sinclair is a researcher and sound artist and is part of Locus Sonos.
- Danube by Claudio Magris. A book that is between novel and non-fiction. It's the author's journey along the Danube river in Europe.
- I talk about walking as an artistic medium and he shared some other artists that do this as well.
- Saint Jean neighbourhood in Genève as an area of interest to check out.
- Maybe to include "Philosophy of Technolgy" into the method diagram.
- Personification of rivers. At the Louvre, The Statue of the Tiber. Came across this paper about river gods and their personifying nature in 16th century. A question posed by Daniel is "The personification of rivers is a recurring theme in Greco-Roman mythology. What conclusion do you draw from this incursion into the philosophy of technology?" A interesting question to further develop my section about tech and nature. Especially since the personification is usually from a mythological or aesthetic perspective, and not technology.
- Digital photography - merits.
- Cartography - sensor.
- Envisioning Information by Edward Tufte. Book could be helpful with the mapping section of the book, or if I include "Rivers Through Numbers".
- Swiss Mobile