“Sensing Change: A Creative Journey into Climate Awareness with GaiaSenses” presented by Moroni, Mammoli and Fornari
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This short article presents the GaiaSenses project, a research project that joins science and art to raise awareness about Climate Change. Based on environmental media and art-research literature, it argues that climate change is not only a scientific and political issue, but also an aesthetic issue. Thus it demands new aesthetic responses so non-expert people can make sense of the more-than-human scale of this new phenomena. GaiaSenses tries to answer to this demand by presenting its users with custom audio-visual compositions created using weather data and rendered in real time. Through the conceptual and technical challenges of its implementation, we suggest that a main challenge of raising awareness about climate change is the scale gap between the geological scale of event and the human scale of perception. In this sense, GaiaSenses is part of an increasing movement of multimodal artists that uses scientific informed art-research to produce artworks that blend aesthetic experiences, climate awareness and critical reflection.
