Living Data

Living Data Dance

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May 7, 2012. Living Data Dance, Rozelle School of Visual Arts, Sydney

Dancers Caterina Mocciola and Ashley Macqueen and musician Fabio Muccini improvise with animated data: tracings of scientific diagrams and graphs, and human gestures. Scientific data come from the Australian Antarctic Division and the Climate Change Cluster, University of Technology, Sydney. Patterns in data gleaned from the Southern Ocean reveal forces of climate change. Read and leave COMMENTS.

A floating screen of plankton mesh...
Illuminates Living Data.
Circling, Spiralling, Crossing lines...
describe natural systems...
physical, biological, emotional.
Glacial ice melts.
Krill stir the sea.
Diatoms drift.
Connectivity is felt and measured.
Antarctic sea ice pulses...
like breath.
Water energy flows.
Water molecules freeze and thaw.
The circumpolar current spins.
Cold bottom water spirals from Antarctica.
Nutrients are drawn up...
by krill and ocean currents.
Krill release eggs.
Sea levels rise.
Oceans warm.
More CO2 seeps into the water...
than many creatures can bear.
CO2 acidifies water.
Natural balance between plants and animals...
is tipping.
Is the problem human?
Anthroposcene?
Can the solution be human?
Can life as we know it adapt...
to increasing variability in temperature?
Human hands create...
to suit human desires.
Plants of the land and sea create...
the oxygen we breathe...

Words: Lisa Roberts with Sue Anderson and Steve Nicol