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- ISEA2011: 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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- The Data Landscapes of Climate Change (FARFIELD 2)
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Chair Persons: Tom Corby & Andrea Polli
Presenters: Annick Bureaud, Nathan Cunningham & Andreas FischlinIn recent years the science and data of climate science has come under unprecedented public scrutiny. This politicization of climate data, whilst potentially dangerous, offers opportunities for us to re-think our relationships to science and develop discussion around interdisciplinary art/science approaches to our changing environment. In this spirit the panel will explore how climate data operates as a social and cultural phenomenon with creative affordances beyond normative scientific and institutional frames and practices. Panel members from artistic and scientific communities will present collaborative projects, theoretical elaborations and visual and sonic experimentations that explore the following questions: What data driven approaches to representing climate change in the arts exist; what are the future possibilities?
- What methodological and conceptual challenges do art/science collaborators using climate data confront?
- Are existing models of collaboration useful?
- How might artists navigate the opportunities and dangers faced by the use of climate data?
- What is the proper role of such work in the public discourses of climate change?