Long-term research and artistic production project directed by the artist Silvia Zayas. It explores the tensions between different modes of underwater perception and speculatively addresses how anthropogenic noise affects marine animals, especially the electric ray that inhabits urban areas of the Catalan Mediterranean. The work articulates experimental practices (including observation, acoustic recording, workshops and meetings) in dialogue with scientists and diving collectives, with the permanent collaboration of marine biologist Claudio Barría and the Catsharks association, and with contributions from bioacoustics specialist Michel André. The associated film production, ruido ê (the film), has worked to weave networks of work with scientists, divers and artists around issues of perception, legibility, vulnerability and resistance. The project has been promoted within the framework of GRAPA, an artistic residency programme promoted by the CCCB, Hangar and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) that accompanies processes located at the intersection between art, science and technology. It has the support of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation as part of its Citizen Art axis and the RED ACTS project, and has also had the support of Artea and other institutional and community collaborations.
