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Changes [May 09, 2008]
Jeff AldrichWith this application, we express interest in creating a Climate Clock to premier in San José, 2010. This art work will incorporate distributed technologies embedded into select communities world wide. Participating individuals will have the ability to create an interpretation of global visualization for ecological change and a sustainable future. This project will become a monument built from individual collaborative input that creates the content for projections that in turn will reveal shifting communal data seen through stunning interactive projections on an urban landscape.
Building from broadly dispersed, interconnected, micro-scale sensors comprising an internet-based macro overview, the project will expose images of how participants enact innovative methods for ecological change. It will be designed to retrain participants, and simultaneously create an art work whose underlying function will be a living reminder of the connectedness of human behavior and the health of our planet, pointing towards the creation of a sustainable future. By relating human action to climate impact in a visually compelling way, this version of the Climate Clock enables a feedback loop of progressive change.
This is how it will work.
Micro measuring devices will be dispersed to selected communities. These devices—essentially thermometers of the climate conditions—will have the ability to measure ecological shifts. The types of devices anticipated for this project would be similar to those being developed by Dr. Fredrico Capaso (http://www.seas.harvard.edu/capasso/ ) at Harvard and discussed in the MIT Technology Review: (http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/20695/?nlid=1038&a=f )
Data readings will be sent to a specially designed website. The website in turn will access multiple readings of various ecologically sensitive chemicals including levels of carbon in the air and greenhouse gas levels. Sensors associated with local energy delivery and metering systems (e.g. PG&E meters) will provide a near-ubiquitous net.
This information will be correlated with temperature and other climate data obtained from sources such as NOAA and international agencies.
Additionally, social data will be integrated via web keyword scans on related topics such as resource usage patterns.
The impact of these micro devices used by individuals in selected communities will be the basis of website content as well as projected visualization of a light-based artwork designed as a monument of projections within a city space.
Users around the globe will be able to interact with and maniuplate the projections, and track the Clock's changing configuration as it accommodates to both individual data input and the inevitable change of the ecological state of the planet.
This is how it will work:
Artists Lynn Hershman Leeson and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer have individually won the prestigious Golden Nica at Ars Electronica, and both have a sustained art practice of public interactive art installations.
Other collaborators include Henrik Bennetson, Jeffrey Schnapp and Jeff Aldrich of the Stanford Humanities Lab, and software engineer Colin Klingman of Google, as well as selected biologists, ecologists, anthropologists and engineers.
This application is for the creation of a Climate Clock, to premier in San Jose California in 2010. This preliminary design is for an artwork that incorporates broadly dispersed, interconnected, micro-scale sensors into selected communities. These distributed "thermometers of climate conditions" will have the ability to measure ecological shifts in the environment and show how these changes can be directly affected by individual use.
Readings from these devices will be posted on graphs that visualize user activity. This information will be reformatted into multiple interactive projections in a selected San Jose location. The projections will expose a footprint of progressive shift brought about by user awareness of ecological change suggested by the micro devices.
Citing the original San José Tower of Light as a reference, this updated version reveals how shifting communal data can transform into stunning interactive projections that in turn encourage and expose a changing footprint of sustainability. Micro-scale sensors will provide data for an internet-based macro overview. The project will be a live reminder of how interconnected human behavior can affect a positive ecological shift that has dynamic planetary repercussions.
This is how it will work:
Micro measuring devices will be dispersed to selected communities. These devices will have the ability to measure ecological shifts. The types of devices anticipated will be similar to those being discussed in the MIT Technology Review: (http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/20695/?nlid=1038&a=f ) Data readings will be sent to a specially designed website. The website in turn will access multiple readings of various ecologically sensitive chemicals including levels of carbon in the air and greenhouse gas levels. Sensors associated with local energy delivery and metering systems (e.g. PG&E meters) will provide a near-ubiquitous net. This information will be correlated with temperature and other climate data obtained from sources such as NOAA and international agencies. Additionally, social data will be integrated via web keyword scans on related topics such as resource usage patterns. The impact of these micro devices will be the basis of website content as well as projected visualization of a monumental light-based artwork. Users around the globe will be able to interact with and manipulate the projections and track the "Clock's" changing configuration as it accommodates to both individual data input and the inevitable change of the global ecological state of the planet. Artists Lynn Hershman Leeson and Raphael Lezano-Hemmer have both separately won the prestigious Golden Nica at Ars Electronica, and both have a sustained art practice of public interactive art installations.
Other collaborators include The Stanford Humanities Lab consisting of Henrik Bennetson, Jeffrey Schnapp and Jeff Aldrich as well as software engineer Colin Klingman who works with Google, as well as selected biologists, ecologists, anthropologists and engineers.
Alluding to the original San José Tower of Light, the proposed Climate Clock will transform ever-shifting environmental data into stunning interactive projections that render visible the changing footprint of sustainability, while serving as a dynamic demonstration of how individual and collective actions contribute to environmental outcomes..
The Clock will operate as a public bridge between the micro and the macro level with respect to persons, place, and politics. It assumes the form of an artwork that integrates data from dispersed, networked, micro-scale sensors or spimes—distributed thermometers of climate conditions"—and uses thiss data to show how the environment is shaped by the combined and cumulative effects of individual behaviors. Readings from these devices will be combined into compelling and readily understandable large-scale visualizations that juxtapose two kinds of data: on the one hand, broad patterns of public activity and their overall effect upon the global climate; on the other, micro-scale views that take a single local individual action (negative or positive) and scale it up onto a global scale (in the mode of Ray and Charles Eames' The Powers of Ten). Projected in a selected high foot-traffic location in San José, these alternating visualizations will promote a kind of "feedback" loop between the micro and macro views of climate, designed to inspire viewers with a sense of power, responsibility, and agency with respect to the environment
TThe Climate Clock will work as follows. Micro sensing devices measuring greenhouse gas levels will be distributed, installed on local utility networks (e.g. PG&E meters or cellular network nodes) to provide a near-ubiquitous sensor net. This data will be collected and correlated with temperature and other climate data obtained from sources such as NOAA, and displayed on an interactive website, and as part of an immersive 3D virtual world experience. Further correlation will be made with social data obtained by such means as web keyword scans on relevant topics, e.g. resource usage and consumption patterns, ecology initiatives, political movements, etc. The combined environmental and social data will form the basis of both the online website and virtual world displays, and of the projected visualization by a monumental light-based artwork. Users around the globe will be able to interact with and manipulate the projections, engaging in "what if" scenario building and tracking the Clock's changing configuration as it adjusts to reflect individual data input and the inevitable change of the global ecological state of the planet.
Artists Lynn Hershman Leeson and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer have individually won the prestigious Golden Nica at Ars Electronica, and both have a sustained art practice of public interactive art installations. Lynn Hershman Leeson's last three pieces were about cultural measurements of data including blog systems and the stock market. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's interactive web-driven projections have been praised throughout the world.
Working with the project artists will be a core team from the Stanford University Humanities Lab including its founder-director, Prof. Jeffrey Schnapp, Henrik Bennetsen (Research Director), and the designer/virtuality architect Jeff Aldrich. The Stanford Humanities Lab is transdisciplinary technology research lab noted for its pioneering work in such areas as interaction design, virtual worlds, and museum-based learning.
Also joining the development team will be Colin Klingman, software designer and engineer for Google; and a small group of distinguished biologists, ecologists, anthropologists, and engineers.
I would add that Lynn Hershman Leeson's last three pieces were about cultural measurements of data including blog systems and the stock market. Raphael Lozeno Hemmer's interactive web driven projections have been praised throughout the world.
it is important we establish this collabortion. /we should say colin klingman, software designer and engineer for Google,
