Exhibits, Installations, and Immersive Experiences

Selected experiential works by Heather Spence, solo and collaborative, from around the world

The Listener

2012-ongoing MUSA / Punta Nizuc, Mexico

with Jason deCaires Taylor

Underwater sculpture / science lab / artificial reef / acoustic monitoring station

Tidal Shifts: Ghosts of the Caribbean

2025 Nice, France at UNOC3

Interactive installation and experience with Ocean World of Sound, featuring soundscape compositions and photogrammetry

Listen to the Ocean

2024 Barcelona, Spain

Sci-art installation event at Ocean Decade Conference in the Museum of Natural Sciences Barcelona

Ghosts of the Caribbean: Coral Bleaching on the Mesoamerican Reef

2024 Los Cabos, Mexico

Interactive installation and experience with Ocean World of Sound in Hotel El Ganzo

poster for mapping memory soundscene XI event at Hirshhorn museum

Reef Recall

2018 Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Performance with curated soundscape compositions and live cello as a tour guide of the ocean memories of a coral reef

NAKFI funded mesopelagic performance lab lights

Immersive Mesopelagic Performance Lab

2017 Woods Hole, Massachusetts

Funded by the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative, this interactive science-art experience envelops the audience in the sensory world of the Ocean’s Twilight Zone