Watershed, excerpt, 2025. Original length 10 minutes. All sound and video Sasha Petrenko. Sound recorded by hydrophone, and only minimally processes shows how water amplifies sound waves underwater.

Press:

https://doublescoop.art/artists-and-scientists-collaborate-at-unrs-lake-tahoe-campus/

https://www.unr.edu/nevada-today/news/2025/tahoe-co-lab-2025

Watershed, 2025 was a Collaborative project with University of Nevada Professors, Media Artist Tyler Calkin, Scientist, Limnologist, Sudeep Chandra and divers from Marine Taxonomic Services, Richard Panuschka, Captain, divers Hamza Mahmoud and Elisa Stansall. The mission was to reveal the unseen and the unheard to deepen our understanding of Lake Tahoe, the body and it’s watershed.

We worked independently and in collaboration on projects for the exhibition. Underwater video for our Specimen Table was captured with GoPros and 360 camera by divers Mahmoud and Stansall. The collaboration and exhibition were organized by Rick Parsons and Molly Allen, of the Holman Arts and Media Center, University of Nevada Reno, Lake Tahoe.

The exhibition took place on the Lake Tahoe campus of the University of Nevada, Reno, the Primm Library Gallery, July - December, 2025.

Sasha Petrenko, Sound Dome Moon Couch with Ghost Tree, 2025. Wood, fabric, foam, cardboard, aluminum, acrylic, sound. 9 x 8 feet.

Sasha Petrenko, Watershed, 2025. Video still.

Sasha Petrenko & Tyler Calkin, Specimen Table and video, Watershed 2025. I designed and produced the specimen table so that when visitors touched specimens it remixed 6 videos via capacitive sensors and VJ software. Underwater video for our Specimen Table was captured with GoPros and a 360 camera by divers Mahmoud and Stansall. Objects were either inherently conductive or painted with graphite to facilitate a change in the electrical field to produce a response.

Tyler Calkin & Sasha Petrenko, Specimen Table and video, Watershed 2025.

Sasha Petrenko, Sound Dome Moon Couch, 2025. Wood, fabric, foam, cardboard, aluminum, acrylic, sound. 9 x 8 x 8 feet.

Sasha Petrenko, Sound Dome Moon Couch with Ghost Tree, 2025. Wood, fabric, foam, cardboard, aluminum, acrylic, sound. 9 x 8 x 8 feet.