ROBERTO  FUSCO

The Baltic Sea faces severe ecological degradation, with approximately 25% of its seabed experiencing hypoxic conditions due to extensive eutrophication caused by agricultural runoff and industrial pollution, creating one of the world's largest human-caused "dead zones." This environmental crisis presents a fundamental challenge: how to move beyond abstract data presentation toward embodied, emotional connections with environmental change that can motivate collective action and adaptation.

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In the performance Hypoxia, Roberto confronts these questions through a computational and material-based audio-visual performance, combining microscopic images, satellite observations, data visualization, 3D reconstruction of the island Örö and AI-generated imagery.

Part of the materials are elaboration of 2 videos of Rhodomonas marina TVZ60, algal cultures to study the impact of salinity on their life, which is part of the ongoing PhD research of Sonja Repetti, working at the University of Helsinki and the Centre for the Social Study of Microbes. Data from the Tvärminne marine research field station were kindly provided by Laura Kauppi, Research coordinator at Tvärminne Zoological Station, University of Helsinki.

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