The Installation
Silent Pollution is conceived as an immersive listening environment where audiences experience underwater acoustic ecosystems with both scientific clarity and emotional depth. Spectrograms, frequency bands, and ecological datasets appear as subtle ambient projections, providing context while keeping the sonic experience central. The installation unifies sound, light, and data to reveal an acoustic world normally inaccessible to human perception.
Because of its reliance on deep listening, spatial sound, and tactile acoustic cues, the installation also holds strong potential for therapeutic and sensory awareness sessions for blind and visually impaired audiences.
Unlike conventional environmental artworks that rely on images or data visualizations, Silent Pollution foregrounds listening as an act of ecological recognition. It asks viewers to witness harm not through imagery, but through absence through the disappearance of biological sound under anthropogenic noise. This shift from seeing to hearing redefines how environmental trauma can be experienced and understood.
Silent Pollution integrates ecological data without becoming didactic. Scientific information spectrograms, frequency bands, decibel shifts functions as an ambient layer that supports emotional and perceptual interpretation. This fusion of analytical and poetic experience positions the installation within contemporary art that treats data as living material.
