Mar, Mar e Mar is an immersive video and sound installation by Fernanda D’Agostino, rooted in a poem by Eugénio de Andrade, whose ode to the sea conveys both tenderness and urgency in the face of ecological loss. Developed with scientists from the Ocean Observatory Institute and a team of collaborators, the work interlaces performance, scientific imaging, and creative coding to explore the sea as both physical force and living metaphor.

At the Newport Art Museum in 2023, I performed live in dialogue with pre-processed video and coding sequences that had been adapted to the site. In 2024 at the Ray Theater, PRAx, Oregon State University, the project was presented as an immersive installation, incorporating video of multiple performers together with layered sound, deep-ocean data sonification, and the voices of scientists. My interviews with Ocean Observatory scientists were excerpted into a soundscape, forming one layer of the installation’s evolving sonic environment. Across both iterations, randomized programming generated shifting combinations of image and sound with no fixed beginning or end, creating a fluid environment where art, science, and embodied practice converged.