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Marco Barotti is a media artist. After music studies at the Siena Jazz Academy, he began merging sound with visual art. His work is driven by a desire to invent an artistic language in which a fictional post-futurist era is expressed through kinetic sound interventions in natural and urban environments. His installations merge audio technology, consumer objects, and waste into moving sculptures triggered entirely by sound. The primary focus of his work is to create a “tech ecosystem” that plays with resemblances to animals and plants. These artworks serve as a metaphor for the anthropogenic impact on the planet and aim to make people aware of environmental and social issues.
His work has been exhibited internationally at Ars Electronica (Linz), Saatchi Gallery (London), Science Gallery (Melbourne), Tokyo Biennale (Tokyo), Gwangju Biennale (Gwangju), Zer01ne, (Seoul), Fact (Liverpool), Wro Art Center (Wroclaw), Picknick (Seoul), Isea (Montreal), ARCAM Architecture Center (Amsterdam), silent green (Berlin), Dutch Design Week (Eindhoven), Stuck (Leuven), Sevcableport (St Petersburg).

Marco Barotti

Barotti welcomes the visitors into a poetic and immersive sonic experience. A metaphorical reinterpretation of the water quality from the Sambre River.
In nature, clams are detectors of pollutants : they serve as tiny filtration systems.
CLAMS is a collection of kinetic sound sculptures which convert data from water quality sensors into sounds and movement. Each ‘clam’ is constructed from recycled waste plastic and contains a loudspeaker. The continuously evolving microtonal soundscape gives each shell a subtle, life-like opening and closing motion.
Recorded data from a water purity sensor placed in the Sambre River form the basis for the music. This generated composition constantly evolves with the water quality levels over time.
Clams invites the audience to engage with the water and its surrounding environment, bridging the gap between media art, data sonification and the imperative of ecological preservation.
Credits: 
Clams is a project created and produced by Marco Barotti 
Software development Marco Accardi, Pim Boreel
Special thanks to Anders Ehlin, Marco Canevacci, Yena Young, Stefan Dietzelt, Carsten Reith, Daniel Brunet &amp; Markus Wüste for advises and support
Clams was developed at WRO Art Center within the framework of EMAP / EMARE
Co-funded by: 
Creative Europe, C-Takt, Oerol Festival, and Transnatural
Supported by: 
Ambient and “In-Situ” water quality measurements
Clams is awarded from the NTU Global Digital Art Award Singapore 2019

Clams

Halle Al'Chair

HEAJ is the school for tomorrow&#8217;s professions in economics, computer graphics, education and paramedicine.
The Real Image option is HEAJ&#8217;s video, photo and immersive techniques option.

HEAJ - Real Image option

Water. Without water, there can be no life. Not on Earth, nor on any other planet. For thousands of years, mankind has been scanning space in search of a planet rich in blue gold.
Now the incredible news has come to light : a group of Belgian researchers have just discovered the existence of a viable planet, rich in vast deposits of water.
Called BIONEXIA, it could be nothing less than humanity&#8217;s salvation ! The long-awaited Planet B&#8230; But it&#8217;s not all that simple. Migrating to this star is a risky business. And ferocious appetites are already setting their sights on its abundant resources.
As part of KIKK in Town, the team behind this discovery has decided to open the doors of its laboratory to the general public&#8230;

BIONEXIA

Haute Ecole Albert Jacquard

Haute École Albert Jacquard

Jan van IJken is a filmmaker and photographer in Leiden, the Netherlands, working on the interface of art and science. In his latest works, he reveals secrets in nature like the murmurations of starlings, the genesis of life and the unseen world of microscopic plankton. He is interested in microscopy, nature, biology, evolution, and embryology.
In earlier years he published three photobooks on social-documentary subjects like Divinity in Eastern Europe and the relationship of man and animal.
He developed a keen eye for light and composition and specializes on autonomous long-term projects. His work has been published and awarded internationally.

Jan van Ijken

Becoming is a short film about the miraculous genesis of animal life. In great microscopic detail, we see the ‘making of’ a salamander in its transparent egg from fertilization to hatching.