OLN | Gone to Silence
Project information
submitted by
Bohyun Suk
Co-Authors
Amina Ansar, Aamna Sarosh, Bohyun Suk, Carlotta Haun, Carl Jörgensen, Jana Schappert
Mentors
Hannes Waldschütz, Eva Hornecker
Faculty:
Art and Design,
Media
Degree programme:
Product Design (Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)),
Computer Science and Media (Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)),
Human-Computer Interaction (Master of Science (M.Sc.))
Type of project presentation
Exhibition
Semester
Summer semester 2026
- Bauhausstraße 11
10th Friday 16 - 22 (open lab night), 11th Saturday 12 - 18
Project description
You swat them away. You close the window. You move your drink inside. Insects have always been the uninvited guests of human space; tolerated at best, eliminated at worst. What most people don't realize is that flying insects have been disappearing at a drastic rate for decades.
Gone to Silence reflects on the quiet disappearance of flying insects. Drawing from research on the decline of insect biomass, the installation makes an invisible loss tangible. It asks what happens when the living sound of the air begins to fade, and what we only start to notice when it is almost too late.