Sonic Currents

To highlight the severity of noise pollution, our project aims to give physicality to this issue, allowing viewers to directly experience and engage with its impact. We have created a water installation in the form of a fountain. is a fountain designed to respond and react to data on underwater noise. The acoustic data is used to impact the volume and flow of water circulating in the fountain. In doing so, we create an alternative method of representing noise pollution in a tangible form. This fountain, far removed from its current role as a decorative or recreational object, becomes an active narrator of environmental disruption. Transforming the fountain into a living, unpredictable entity, mirrors the invasive nature of human-induced underwater noise.

At its core, the project confronts the invisible yet profound disturbances caused by human maritime activities and their impact on the acoustic balance of our oceans.

Brogen Berwick is an artist, design researcher, Design Academy Eindhoven alumna, based in Amsterdam.
With a focus on interdisciplinary collaboration, Brogen navigates between topics, of science, ecology, environment, and investigative journalism, as she examines the impacts of extraction industries and anthropogenic production, on more-than-human ecosystems.
In her artistic practice, Brogen works with various mediums, including ceramics, sculptural installations, video and sound projections and site-specific works. She invites the viewer to reconsider the relationships between human actions and the environment, challenging perceptions with alternative narration and speculative storytelling.