Turbid Encounters translates the movement and proximity of surrounding bodies and objects into vibrations across the face. A headpiece suspends visual orientation, shifting perception into air as a dense relational medium.

The project began in the module Ecological Interaction: Interfacing the Ocean, following field research in Valsaline Bay, Pula, Here, we explored immersion across human and marine life worlds.

Piloting an underwater drone, we produced extensive photogrammetric data. Following a seemingly simple plan, we often felt disoriented and lost under the water.

This translated into several experiments: we started to explore and manipulate this data, wondering what might lie beyond the statistical assumptions embedded in visual orientation.

What if photogrammetry markers were sonic rather than visual interfaces? Following faint sounds, making contact with bone-transducing buoys, the system transmits underwater audio directly into the head.

What if body movements introduce drift and inertia into live photogrammetry visuals? What if footsteps and other vibrations disperse the Gaussian splats, obscuring clear vision of the object of observation?