Abstract
This work was exhibited in Constellations: Bespoke Screens from 21 to 29 June 2024 at The Cube and The Sphere, QUT, during the 29th International Symposium on Electronic Art.
WeatherState is an ongoing project that critically investigates senses of place within thevast heterotopias of the world oceans. In the face of the climate crisis, these enigmaticrealms hold profound significance as regulators of global temperatures, absorbing carbondioxide, shaping weather patterns, and world trade. They act as analogous spaces, asisomorphs for the complexity of embodied understandings of the interconnectedness andentanglements of our current times.
Through data mapping and generative approaches, the WeatherState system maps thehistorical and cultural complexities of these heterotopias, and presents an immersive,generative screen experience of a complex relational set of data.
As a dataecology, WeatherState interrogates the role of oceans as conduits for trade,climate change and cultural colonialism, by drawing on historical data sets (the SouthernOscillation Index (SOI)1880-2020), Global Ocean Temperatures (1901-2022) and the OceanCO2 sink (1959-2022) combined with 21st century generative techniques, WeatherStatepresents a world of interconnected phenomena. The aim is for an embodied, sensorialexperience of data that builds on current data visualisation practices and pays attention tothe ecologies of practice that drive the data selection, presentation and mapping. WeatherState is a live multichannel experience that seeks to generate an affect ofaliveness, challenging extractive modes of visualisation.
WeatherState is an ongoing project that critically investigates senses of place within thevast heterotopias of the world oceans. In the face of the climate crisis, these enigmaticrealms hold profound significance as regulators of global temperatures, absorbing carbondioxide, shaping weather patterns, and world trade. They act as analogous spaces, asisomorphs for the complexity of embodied understandings of the interconnectedness andentanglements of our current times.
Through data mapping and generative approaches, the WeatherState system maps thehistorical and cultural complexities of these heterotopias, and presents an immersive,generative screen experience of a complex relational set of data.
As a dataecology, WeatherState interrogates the role of oceans as conduits for trade,climate change and cultural colonialism, by drawing on historical data sets (the SouthernOscillation Index (SOI)1880-2020), Global Ocean Temperatures (1901-2022) and the OceanCO2 sink (1959-2022) combined with 21st century generative techniques, WeatherStatepresents a world of interconnected phenomena. The aim is for an embodied, sensorialexperience of data that builds on current data visualisation practices and pays attention tothe ecologies of practice that drive the data selection, presentation and mapping. WeatherState is a live multichannel experience that seeks to generate an affect ofaliveness, challenging extractive modes of visualisation.
| Original language | English |
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| Publisher | Queensland University of Technology |
| Publication status | Published - 2024 |