ssandydaviss
creative technologist +
multidisciplinary designer
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The Fountain
Barcelona
2024
The Fountain is an interactive installation that explores the hidden link between two vital resources: water and data. Participants are invited to choose — drink from the fountain or pour water into a server, triggering the generation of AI images and sounds of a distorted natural world.
Drawing attention to the water-intensive cooling systems behind AI servers, the piece reveals the often overlooked environmental cost of digital creation. With each action, visitors engage in a feedback loop between consumption and production, nature and machine.
Presented as a meditation on sustainability and digital excess, The Fountain invites reflection on the true cost of innovation in an age of ecological crisis.
Concept
Creative Direction
Sound Design
Industrial Design
Sandy Davis
Visual Design
Technical Design
Martijn van Nunen