Artist and designer Cristina Tarquini created a video and sound installation for the Henrichenburg Shiplift in Waltrop. Navigating through time is located in the machine hall of the Shiplift. The exhibit focuses on how a globalising world is adapting infrastructures of water transportation routes and means of transit. Tarquini’s work engages with scientific data sets, translating them into a fluid imagery of animated point clouds.

For her video installation in the Shiplift, Cristina Tarquini constructs an audiovisual narrative using pertinent data sets on global container shipping and water research. Her work shows connections between major overseas ports, addresses the increase of ocean freight transport, and visualises data sets provided by the Federal Institute of Hydrology, a research institute studying the impacts of extreme weather events on the Rhine River and Rhine-Herne Canal. At the shiplift museum, artistic methods make topics of logistics, economics, and ecology tangible.

Italian media artist and designer Cristina Tarquini studied art direction for advertising at the European Institute of Design in Milan and Barcelona, and completed a master’s degree in communication design at Central Saint Martins in London. Tarquini works as a creative technologist and is an expert in visual storytelling. Her work creates immersive experiences that traverse digitality and physical space, art and technology. Her projects have been exhibited internationally, including Somerset House in London, Ars Electronica in Linz, and Best of Google Design 2020.