BLOOMS – Blooming Algae: An Immersive VR Experience for Science Communication

BLOOMS is an immersive VR art-science experience where you become an algae particle and explore the hidden soundscapes and climate precarity of toxic blooms.

Blooms is an amazing art-science installation that invites visitors to literally become an algae particle and dive into the hidden soundscapes of toxic algal blooms. These blooms, increasingly driven by rising temperatures, marine heatwaves, and anthropogenic pollutants, disrupt the metabolic cycles of aquatic ecosystems and reflect the climate precarity of our urban, agricultural, and industrial waste streams.

Developed by Christian Stein and first presented at the Tieranatomisches Theater in May 2025, Blooms pioneers a new way to communicate science — through embodied experience. Most recently, this experience could be had at the Farout Live Arts Festival in Milan.

For more information about the project and the first display at Tieranatomisches Theater please read more here.
More information on the Berlin Science Week website.