Video Montage | 00:10:58 | 2025

Carlo De Gaetano curated a collection of over 400 videos from the open archives of Sound & Vision, exploring human and non-human relationships with water in the Netherlands. In workshops held in Amsterdam, Hilversum, Rome, and Porto, participants used still images from the archive to imagine future ways of living in a country of rising waters. Drawing from these dialogues, sketches, and stories, the resulting video interweaves archival fragments, AI-generated visuals, and speculative narratives into a looping meditation on coexistence and adaptation in water-shaped futures.

Carlo De Gaetano (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences) is a Professional Doctoral Candidate with the Visual Methodologies Collective and a researcher for the EPIC-WE Project.
His research combines information design, participatory art, and climate imagination to address the impacts of climate change, focusing on rising sea levels in the Netherlands.
His project visualizes cultural representations of Dutch water ecosystems and uses generative AI to create alternative narratives and future living scenarios.
Through the intersection of cultural archives, digital technologies, and artistic research, his work invites imaginative reflections on how we might adapt and live in water-shaped futures.