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+ A living knowledge commons on water, culture and innovation
The S+T+ARTS AQUA MOTION Sylloge is a living, open-access knowledge hub that documents, translates and amplifies the intersection of art, science, technology and society in relation to water challenges across Europe and.
The Sylloge is conceived as a curated narrative space connecting local water realities with artistic experimentation, scientific insight, and technological innovation — making complex water issues accessible, meaningful and actionable for diverse audiences.
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+ Share your work with the S+T+ARTS Aqua Motion Sylloge
If you are exploring water through art, science, technology, education, community practice or interdisciplinary collaboration, we invite you to submit your work and become part of a growing European knowledge commons that makes water challenges visible, meaningful and actionable. We welcome contributions in many forms, including
- artistic works (visual arts, digital, sound, performance, installations, storytelling, artistic research)
- science–art and tech–art collaborations
- community-based or grassroots initiatives connected to water management, conservation or literacy
- educational projects and methodologies
- digital tools and visualisations
- cultural, historical or speculative approaches that reimagine our relationship with water and society
- research publications, among others!
Submissions can represent ongoing, completed or evolving work, and may come from artists, collectives, researchers, educators, community groups or interdisciplinary teams.
All contributions are reviewed through a light validation process to ensure relevance and suitability for public dissemination.
To be featured in the Sylloge, simply complete our quick submission form here:
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+ Why a Sylloge?
Water challenges are local, complex and deeply entangled with ecosystems, infrastructures, communities and culture. At the same time, meaningful transformation depends on how knowledge is shared and mobilised.
The Sylloge exists to bring together and spotlight:
- art-driven perspectives that shift narratives and engage publics,
- scientific insight and research-based evidence,
- technological innovation with tangible applications,
- community knowledge and practices, including grassroots and place-based responses.
The S+T+ARTS AQUA MOTION Sylloge aims to bring together artistic, scientific, technological and community-based knowledge on water sustainability into a single, coherent and accessible space—creating a shared reference point where diverse perspectives can meet and reinforce each other. It will also contribute to strengthening water literacy, inspiring behavioural change, and enabling broader public engagement, using compelling, art-driven and knowledge-based storytelling to make water challenges tangible and meaningful for different audiences. In doing so, the Sylloge will serve as a lasting reference and evidence base for future S+T+ARTS initiatives, as well as for researchers, cultural practitioners, educators and policymakers working at the dynamic intersection of water, culture and innovation.
+ Contributions
Laissez-faire: Pavilion for Climate
By Jibril Baba & Peace Olatunji
The core of my work seeks to recover the wisdom of past Nigerian traditional knowledge and transpose it into language of the present. My work bridges art, architecture, AI, and community research to reimagine heritage and climate futures.
Summary of the work:
Laissez-faire is a floating, wind-propelled pavilion equipped with environmental sensors and AI that navigates the historical waters of Alexandria, Egypt. The project investigates how artificial intelligence and psychogeographic practices can reshape our understanding of space: through drift, memory, and emotional resonance. It proposes a fluid psychogeography, where the method of drifting through space is driven by the atmosphere. The pavilion is also influenced by the environmental data and cultural memory it collects on its route. As the pavilion floats, it collects live data — water temperature, turbidity, PH, air humidity. Alongside this, it collects ambient sounds and geo-tagged oral stories. As a result, it becomes a sort of sentient vessel. One that listens to both the visible climate and the invisible aura of a city shaped by water.
Dimensions:
+ Digital tools, visualisations, or narratives exploring water systems and futures
+ Artistic works (visual arts, digital art, sound, performance, installations, storytelling, artistic research)
50°47’300″N 4°33’341″W
By Alexis Over-Papatzaneteas
Alexis Over Papatzaneteas is a multidisciplinary artist who transforms complex data into visual metaphors that reveal unseen global narratives. His work translates abstract data into accessible, emotive experiences.
Summary of the work:
50°47’300″N 4°33’341″W is based on the interpretation and manipulation of raw sewage discharge data provided by Surfers Against Sewage to act as an expounding interface between science and art, presenting data as a symbolic visual form. The use of data in this context acts as a means of provocation, a shift from empirical representations of pragmatism into an emotive aesthetic form.
Dimensions:
+ Digital tools, visualisations, or narratives exploring water systems and futures
+ Artistic works (visual arts, digital art, sound, performance, installations, storytelling, artistic research)
Manifesto
Terricola
By Solimán López
Artist whose practice operates at the intersection of art, science, technology and ecological transition. His work investigates how information, memory and life can be stored, transmitted and transformed across physical, biological & digital systems.
Summary of the work:
This is an artistic document that presents a snapshot of the current state of humanity across different domains such as economics, ethics and morality, psychology, geopolitics, the environment and art, among others.
Dimensions:
+ Educational projects, tools, or methodologies focused on water;
+ Artistic works (visual arts, digital art, sound, performance, installations, storytelling, artistic research)
The mesmerising sand
By Anom Mathur
Myself Artist Anmol Mathur from Indore City Madhya Pradesh (India) my art journey is started when I was in school . My name is knowing with experimental art with modern art and abstract art in various theme by discipline manner.
Summary of the work:
our culture based (india ) water is most angelic wish in entire world, sea is the value of humans life, animal and humans both are depends on sea , our culture our structure of countries depend on sea , most important species are live in sea , nature is real beauty of earth, earth is eternity of water , water is need and food,
Dimensions:
+ Educational projects, tools, or methodologies focused on water;
+ Artistic works (visual arts, digital art, sound, performance, installations, storytelling, artistic research)
Counter-narratives of water
By DISNOVATION.ORG
DISNOVATION.ORG is a research collective set up in Paris in 2012. They create artworks staged as laboratory experiments focused on energy, ecology, and economics, which act as catalysts for imagining futures that diverge from prevailing narratives.
Summary of the work:
In modern times, the abundance of water and its constant availability paradoxically make it invisible. Underground circulation and complex hydrological systems, such as karsts, are relegated to the background of everyday life. Water becomes a mere factor of production.
Dimensions:
+ Cultural, historical, or speculative approaches to water and society;
+ Artistic works (visual arts, digital art, sound, performance, installations, storytelling, artistic research)
In-between-ness: a speculative project on liminal life and water culture
By Jorge Conde
Jorge Conde is a visual artist based in Barcelona. He’s best known for his installations expanding the limits of photography and visual culture. His work deals with the climate emergency, water culture, and the tensions between history and memory.
Summary of the work:
HYPOTHESIS: What if the sea level were to rise by 1.5 meters in the Catalan Mediterranean and the mouth of La Plata River along both the Argentine and Uruguayan Atlantic coastlines?
Dimensions:
+ Artistic works (visual arts, digital art, sound, performance, installations, storytelling, artistic research)
Luciférine
By Thomas Laigle
Thomas Laigle is an artist. His work is rooted in an Art–Science approach and developed through close collaborations with researchers in entomology, microbiology, oceanology, giving rise to works that challenge anthropocentric modes of perception.
Summary of the work:
Luciferine is a sonic and sculptural performance for bioluminescent bacteria. Its title refers to luciferin, the molecule at the core of bioluminescence, the light emitted by living organisms. In darkness, spectators follows the flow of liquid bacteria within a glass sculpture that functions both as instrument and container. As the living light travels, it reveals the shape of a chimerical entity and acts as a random, living musical algorithm: conductive sensors translate its fluctuations into signals that activate analog synthesizers, generating a live, evolving soundscape.
Dimensions:
+ Artistic works (visual arts, digital art, sound, performance, installations, storytelling, artistic research)
Water gives life to everything
By Nathalie Leung Shing
Self-taught artist Nathalie Leung Shing works with recycled textiles & natural materials to explore sustainability & storytelling. Her practice is rooted in environmental advocacy through Bin Your Butts and Water Gives Life to Everything campaigns.
Summary of the work:
In Mauritius, water can no longer be taken for granted. Prolonged droughts dry the land, while sudden heavy rains bring destruction. We are pushing nature beyond its limits. Plastic waste from everyday life flows into the ocean, where fish and marine animals mistake it for food, suffer, and die. Water gives life to everything, yet it is increasingly under threat. Combining video, photography, and fiber art, the installation confronts water as a life-giving force under threat and calls on viewers to pause, care, and take responsibility.
Dimensions:
+ Artistic works (visual arts, digital art, sound, performance, installations, storytelling, artistic research)
Waterscapes
By Annalisa Mercuri
I am an Italian artist and scientist based in Italy. My work bridge science and art, transforming data into visual artworks that give form to the invisible. I create drawings, cyanotypes & oil paintings exploiting and exploring materials properties.
Summary of the work:
Waterscapes is an ongoing series exploring diverse water sources through cyanotype, an historic contact technique. Prussian blue is formed through the chemical reaction occurring when iron salts are exposed to UV light. Water is used to remove unreacted solution. Yet every water source has a unique chemical composition, consisting in dissolved salts, organic and inorganic matter, microorganisms, soil, pollutants, or microplastics. Furthermore, each water body has distinct hydrodynamic forces and can exist in different physical states. These variables influence how each water type reacts with the treated paper under natural light, generating unique images from this chemical encounter. The create images are not only shaped by material interaction but also by space and time. Light conditions, season, weather, wind, shadows, exposure time, and the artist’s gesture all contribute to the final result. Often created at sunrise or in secluded natural settings, these works emerge through immersion, meditation, and reflection. Each image becomes a record of a specific hic et nunc moment and a meditation on water’s diversity, fragility, and our relationship with the natural landscape.
Dimensions:
+ Artistic works (visual arts, digital art, sound, performance, installations, storytelling, artistic research)
Imagined
Islands
By Leon Butler
Leon Butler is an artist and academic working at the intersection of art and technology. He has exhibited internationally and completed major residencies. Recent projects include Foolish Flame, Imagined Islands and Dwelling
Summary of the work:
Imagined Islands is a digital art installation that uses machine learning to explore the fragile topographies of small coastal outcrops across Europe. The project investigates how these sites embody both natural resilience and vulnerability, while addressing urgent issues such as coastal erosion and climate change.
Dimensions:
+ Artistic works (visual arts, digital art, sound, performance, installations, storytelling, artistic research)
What
Escapes
By Yannis (Ioannis) Gkouzoumas
Greek multimedia artist based in Brussels. Holds degrees in Computer Engineering (AUTh) and Visual Arts (LUCA School of Arts). Works across video installation, performance, and new media exploring what resists technological capture.
Summary of the work:
What Escapes explores the failure of technological systems to capture living movement within aquatic ecosystems.
Dimensions:
+ Artistic works (visual arts, digital art, sound, performance, installations, storytelling, artistic research)
Green Matters – Algae gatherer´s handbook
By Mia Makela
Mia Makela is a media artist and cultural historian merging art with research and ecology. She works mainly with videoin order to explore ecocentrism. A pioneer in the field of live cinema, she has shown her work all over the globe.
Summary of the work:
Green Matters is a project in which Mia Makela examines the eutrophication of the Baltic Sea from an unusual perspective. She experiments with green macroalgae and combines them with traditional rug-making techniques. The process brings together diverse knowledge, from ancient craft skills to phycology and environmental politics, turning the artwork into an attempt to draw attention to and care for a sea threatened by eutrophication.
Dimensions:
+ Artistic works (visual arts, digital art, sound, performance, installations, storytelling, artistic research)
Evanescet. The last glaciers
By Pepe molina cruz
Pepe Molina Cruz es realizador y fotógrafo especializado en documental creativo. Su proyecto “Evanescet” investiga la desaparición de los glaciares combinando arte, ciencia y tecnología.
Summary of the work:
Evanescet is an artistic research project that examines the disappearance of glaciers as a physical, temporal and cultural process,
Dimensions:
+ Digital tools, visualisations, or narratives exploring water systems and futures
+ Artistic works (visual arts, digital art, sound, performance, installations, storytelling, artistic research)
RiVER – another look at the city / Flood Embassy
By Periferias dibujadas
periferias dibujadas investigates urban transformations and conflicts through art, and creates spaces where children, young people and intergenerational groups can research, narrate and creatively intervene in their urban context
Summary of the work:
RiVER: How do the emotional, political, economic and social landscapes change if we locate the river in the centre of them? Ri/VER refers to ‘river’, but also stands for re-ver, i.e. revise, see from a different angle. Thinking through the river, shifts the anthropocentric and short-term focused understandings, thus we can move stagnant conversations.
Dimensions:
+ Educational projects, tools, or methodologies focused on water;
+ Artistic works (visual arts, digital art, sound, performance, installations, storytelling, artistic research)
FLUMEN
By Andrea Conte – studio Andreco – Climate Art Project – Futurecologies
Artist trained in Environmental Engineering (degree and PhD) on Nature-Based Solutions for sustainable water management. He founded Climate Art Project and FLUMEN. He is affiliated with NICHE research groups on Ecological Art Practices and Water.
Summary of the work:
FLUMEN is an ecological art practice and methodology bridging artistic research, environmental science, and socio-ecological activism around rivers and riparian green spaces. Initiated by Climate Art Project and Studio Andreco with an international partner network, it develops public, site-based formats combining performance and civic rituals (landscape flags and small offerings to more-than-human entities); collective citizen-science monitoring (water and ecosystem sampling); workshops, walks, exhibitions, and tree plantings; and the translation of environmental data into data-driven sculptures. FLUMEN also employs embodied approaches informed by hydrofeminist theory. Its aim is to shift attention from water use toward care, framing rivers as entities deserving respect and rights. Operating as both a research network and a campaign, it has expanded into Future Environment, focusing on environmental racism and necropolitics. Projects have taken place in Italy, China, India, Morocco, Portugal, Germany, the U.S., and Brazil, and have been presented at MAXXI (Rome), MAMbo (Bologna), the China Pavilion at the Triennale di Milano, NYU Shanghai, Duke University, and Tongji University.
Dimensions:
+ Community-based or grassroots initiatives related to water management, conservation, or literacy;
+ Artistic works (visual arts, digital art, sound, performance, installations, storytelling, artistic research)
Oxygen Holocaust
By Inervo art
Inervo art is an international dance/theater company founded in Madrid in 2014. It explores interdisciplinary performance and collaborating with scientists. The company presents its work internationally at festivals and museums.
Summary of the work:
OXYGEN HOLOCAUST is an original work by Inervo Company merging dance, theater, and technology to explore the relationship between art and science. Over the past two years, the team developed the Luzlíquida projects and the installation Cuerpos Errantes in collaboration with the Institut de Ciències del Mar in Barcelona and the Espronceda Center for Contemporary Art, researching the connection between marine science and artistic creation.
Dimensions:
+ Artistic works (visual arts, digital art, sound, performance, installations, storytelling, artistic research)
Mothers of the Deep. Beherzigung’s Voices
By Giovanna Turrini – BRIDGES
Venice-born sound artist (M.A.), SIAE member. Merges bioacoustics, scientific datasets, field recordings, AI-experiments. CHIGIANAradioarte 2025. Certified in inter-media and SDG pedagogy. Project mgmt (€20k, e.g. Goethe-Institut).
Summary of the work:
Rooted in Goethe’s Urphänomen, the project explores the etymological bond Matter-Mater of the voice, transforms bio-acoustic data into a narrative of resilience across space and time, is a cross-species try-out between the “jazz musicians of the abyss” and updated classical poetry.
Dimensions:
+ Artistic works (visual arts, digital art, sound, performance, installations, storytelling, artistic research)
Body of Water
By Tamar Blom and Federico Murgia
Federico Murgia and Tamar Blom are artists with independent practices collaborating on Body of Water. Federico works with light and spatial systems. Tamar works with movement and embodied research, exploring physical presence and sensory awareness.
Summary of the work:
As you realize you are only lightly touched, tension slowly dissolves. The body steadies. You begin to meet the water directly. Flickering light enters, transforming the jet patterns into shifting abstractions. The experience can feel disorienting, expansive, even cosmic, like moving through clouds, storms, or a vast inner landscape.
Dimensions:
+ Artistic works (visual arts, digital art, sound, performance, installations, storytelling, artistic research)
RiverSong
By Rasak Akorede, David Osaodion Odiase, hn. lyonga
RiverSong is an interdisciplinary collective of artists, writers, and technologists exploring sound, water, and cultural memory through interactive installations combining hydroacoustics, machine learning, and Afrocentric symbolic systems.
Summary of the work:
RiverSong invites audiences to experience water not only as a resource but also as a cultural and ecological medium. By making the movement of sound in water visible and participatory, the installation encourages reflection on how listening can reveal relationships between human presence, environmental systems, and cultural knowledge.
Dimensions:
+ Digital tools, visualisations, or narratives exploring water systems and futures
+ Artistic works (visual arts, digital art, sound, performance, installations, storytelling, artistic research)
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STARTSAQUAMOTION is co-funded by the European Union under the STARTS – Science, Technology and Arts initiative of DG CNECT (GA no. LC-03568055). Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or DG CNECT. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
