Description
This presentation explores how sound-based art practices offer alternative ways of engaging with information—beyond legibility and the visual. Information is felt as much as its understood. In contrast to dominant frameworks of data representation and visualization, which often prioritize static, visual clarity, sound carries knowledge within a spatiotemporal realm— sound shapes perception through an embodied resonance. It does not seek to clarify or decode, but to attune. Drawing on my sound installation Tower of Babel, which sonifies bureaucratic language and border spaces, I reflect on how sound can expose the affective weight and infrastructural violence of administrative systems. The installation renders fragmentation and delay audible—inviting listeners to experience information as dissonance, friction, and relational texture. I argue that sonic practices foreground embodied, situated ways of knowing. Sound does not merely represent information—it unsettles it, reframes it, and invites not just comprehension, but attention and presence of our surroundings.
