Type
Art
Role
Individual
Date
2026
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Art
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Speculative
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Installation
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Computing
Collective Silence III
Translating invisible environmental signals into an evolving visual field.
Collective Silence III
How can we sense what remains beyond human perception?
Collective Silence III investigates volatile signals released by plants and materials: exchanges that circulate through an environment but remain largely outside ordinary human perception.
A fragment of wood, mirrored surfaces, hand-drawn textile, digital screens and sensing technologies form a speculative sensing body. Live environmental data becomes a shifting visual field, while recorded footage traces an earlier encounter between a plant and its surroundings.
The installation asks how technology might make these ecological exchanges perceptible without reducing them to fixed information.
Position
Ecological exchange takes place beyond what humans can readily see or hear. Collective Silence III approaches this gap through volatile signals: the changing traces released by plants and materials into a shared environment.
Sensing becomes an act of interpretation. The installation brings environmental readings into a visual field while keeping the physical materials present, inviting attention to the relationship between a signal, its translation and the world it comes from.
The work asks what becomes perceptible through technology, and what remains unresolved when a living exchange is made visible.
Process
Wood, mirrored surfaces and hand-drawn textile bring the material environment into contact with digital screens and sensing technologies. Early sketches explored the supporting structure and the placement of screens and textile across the wood.
Live environmental data is translated into a changing visual field. Alongside it, recorded footage holds an earlier encounter between a plant and its surroundings, bringing present readings and recorded time into the same installation.
Film
Collective Silence III — Project film, 2026
A moving-image introduction to the installation, its materials and its changing visual field.
Exhibition
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2026 MFA/MA Computational Arts Exhibition
13–15 August 2026
St. James Hatcham Building
Goldsmiths, University of London
London SE14 6AD
