Ripple Effect is an interactive art exhibition that visualizes local water quality data through sound, light, and water. Through software technology, water contamination data is translated into sound waves. 

The installation consists of speakers that play the ‘data soundtracks’, which vibrate the water held in attached trays. The sonic vibrations create unique patterns to emerge in the water, known as water cymatics. Participants hear and see the water vibrate based on the chemical concentrations found in their water samples. The more active the water, the higher the concentration. Ripple Effect travels to communities that face environmental pollution and has communicated water, groundwater, and rainwater data.

Ripple Effect serves as a reminder that our actions have a profound and direct impact on the most precious source of life on Earth. Tying to the ripple effect metaphor (ripples expanding across water in response to an initial disturbance), the participants are confronted to reflect on how their and/or society’s actions or inactions reverberate throughout the physical and social world.

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