Salomé Bazin

Salomé Bazin is a French multimedia artist, founder of experiential design studio Cellule. Her work is a tension between digital art, experiential and performance, in an exploration of new mediums to experience natural phenomena, flows and human physiology. She uses interactive media, sound, movement and embodied participation as an invitation for collective synchronisation. Over the last few years, her work has reached a wide audience with showcases at Science Gallery London, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Barbican centre, Mira festival, Sadler’s Well theatre, Venice Biennale amongst others. She worked with scientific organisations including King’s College London, Imperial College, the Royal Society, ENS Cachan, CMCC, OGS trieste.

Progetto: Waterbodies

Challenge 15: Sensing water quality: a one health perspective

Project summary: Waterbodies (working title) is a residency and research project leading to a poetic technologic experience into the river flow state and health, populated by citizen science data points from river walks. The hybrid activation will enable participants to feel the different water states through real-life observation, water testing and generative sound to be explored during the walks.
Waterbodies want to raise awareness and sensory understanding of the river as a living body, and its right to flow. Communities will be actively contributing to the immersive map and digital dream as part of arranged citizen science walks, through water measurements, observation and sonic capture.
The artwork deployment and community participation during the residency will contribute in creative a collective sense of stewardship for the region by connecting dedicated groups in various locations of the river (upstream and downstream).

Listen to the artist talking about “Waterbodies”