Climate Change: Embodying the Data
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- ISEA2011: 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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Session Title:
- The Data Landscapes of Climate Change (FARFIELD 2)
Presentation Title:
- Climate Change: Embodying the Data
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Abstract:
Panel: The Data Landscapes of Climate Change (FARFIELD 2)
For a vast majority of people, climate change remains largely abstract, perceptible only by its effects, by its symptoms, to use a medical vocabulary. Likewise, for a vast majority of people, scientific charts remain largely abstract and illegible. How can they be turned into a “graspable reality”? How can these data be brought into a familiar realm? They can be made familiar by providing a human scale to what is largely beyond human senses and means of appropriation, in ways that include a phenomenological component. This embodiment of data will be examined and discussed through a series of artworks relating to the Poles and the recent Lovely Weather artists-in-residence project in Ireland.