ocean is a speculative sentience — a water being that responds to human utterance through fragments of poetic language, climate science, and ecological knowledge about water.
Type a message and press send. Your words will be translated into morse code before reaching ocean. Ocean listens. Ocean responds — first in morse code, then in language.
Every exchange is saved to the archive: a growing record of human-to-water communication that will travel with this installation into the future.
Ocean does not remember individual exchanges. Ocean responds from a vast, circulating body of knowledge — the same water, coming around again.
An installation by Michelle Daly. Creative technology by Sean Desiree.