Selected work 04
water movement
About the work
water movement is an interactive audiovisual installation that turns projected water into a field of play. Visitors‘ movements are tracked by a LiDAR sensor and translated in real time into waves and sound. The water consists of abstract points, and the projection openly shows its synthetic origin. The work does not hide this artificiality; it examines why we still respond to the simulation as if it were water, and how technological interfaces shape, preserve or distort our relationship to a natural element.
The work has so far been realised in two versions, each adapted to its site.
I.
Wall projection, Brilliant Brutal, Innsbruck, 2024
The first version was shown in the group exhibition Brilliant Brutal in Innsbruck in June 2024. The water was projected vertically onto a wall, and visitors‘ hands set off ripples and sound on its surface. The upright orientation is physically impossible for water. This contradiction was intended: the work relied on the body accepting what the mind recognises as artificial.
II.
Water Movement Nicosia, WIP LAB 25, 2025
The second version was developed during the WIP LAB 25 artist residency in Nicosia, Cyprus, from October to November 2025, and presented in the group exhibition Invisible Waters. As a site-specific floor projection, it transformed Platia Dimarchias into a temporary water commons. Passersby created ripples and sound through their movements; when the square fell still, wave patterns generated from real-time ocean data around Cyprus emerged.
Moved from the wall to a public square on an island where water is scarce, the work shifted from perceptual play towards water as a fragile, shared resource.
Credits
Water Movement Nicosia was supported by the Austrian Embassy in Nicosia on the occasion of its 20th anniversary in Cyprus, in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus, the Thinker Maker Space at the CYENS Centre of Excellence and the Nicosia Municipality. Augmenta and Rebeam supported the project as official partners, providing software and hardware.