What I Hear Trough the Noise
Paulina Tarara

The project is a research-based artistic inquiry into the relationships between signal, processing, and experience within contemporary data culture. It is inspired by the strong culture of sky observation in Argentina, where astronomical observation and the attentive reading of distant signals form an important part of scientific and cultural imagination. In this context, communication is approached as a process of interpreting traces, noise, and fragments – elements that do not yet constitute meaning but carry the potential for it. Within data culture, signals circulate as streams of measurable differences that require continuous processing and interpretation. They appear at the threshold between randomness and structure, between transmission and interpretation, revealing how patterns emerge from what initially seems like interference or absence.

Another dimension of the project focuses on what happens to information once it is transformed through processes of visualization, modeling, and translation characteristic of data culture. Data becomes image, simulation, and cultural artifact, shaping how knowledge and collective imagination are organized. In this perspective, the viewer’s experience takes the form of immersion, disorientation, and the gradual reconstruction of meaning. The project treats communication as an open interpretative experiment: a space in which even a solitary signal – such as a whale called 52 Blue – can become a metaphor for the search for a shared language in a world of increasing informational complexity.