Living Data
Animating Change: Exhibition
 Exhibition |
 Forum |
 Dance |
 Interviews |
 Impacts |
Stories, hypotheses, data and iconography are combined to make sense of climate change.
An Ultimo Science Festivalevent at The Muse, Ultimo TAFE, Sydney, 16 - 26 August 2012
Project leader: Lisa Roberts Exhibition curators: Christine McMillanand Lisa Roberts
Combining stories, hypotheses, data and iconography
An Ultimo Science Festivalevent at The Muse, Ultimo TAFE, Sydney, 16 - 26 August 2012
Curators: Christine McMillanand Lisa Roberts
Presentations INDEX / COMMENTS
Oceanic Living Data
Animation/Installation. 2012
Silk mesh that once trawled the Southern Ocean illuminates animations last presented at the 2012 Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, Hobart. Strips of silk from a CPR (Continuous Plankton Recorder) hang from the ceiling of The Muse. Lengths of silk drift through air like a jelly fish swimming through water.
Like a scientific model, the installation evolves to reflect current knowledge. Unlike a scientific model, this can be touched and you can move through it and feel part of it. Animations evolve to combine key stories, hypotheses, data and iconography gleaned from climate change science. The story is that a healthy environment maintains homoeostasis (balance) between its parts and that human actions are tipping the natural balance. Data include graphs that show sea levels rising and diagrams that indicate changing patterns of growth in plants and animals. Iconography shared by scientists and artists is sequenced in ways that connect the parts to suggest a dynamic whole.
Like an organism, the installation evolves as new data is added, and as the work inhabits new spaces and impacts on new audiences. Since the Hobart presentation the animation includes a visualisation of the macro algae Neptune's necklace, responding to increasing temperature variability. Now in The Muse, the installation interacts with the film, El Mar, Mi Alma (The Sea, My Soul). Its animated forms connect it to stories and iconography of fishermen and surfers of Chile.
Krill data: So Kawaguchi, Jaime Gomez-Gutierrez, Steve Nicol, Australian Antarctic Division; Uwe Kils
Diatoms data: McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Ecological Research
Antarctic sea ice: United States Geological Survey
Sea levels data: John Church et al. CSIRO
Hormosira Bansksii data: Martina Doblin, Climate Change Cluster, University of Technology, Sydney
Alveoli data: Nicholas Kiraly, Royal Hobart Hospital
Drawing:Connecting spiral, Kim Holten; Unravelling spiral, Rena Czaplinska
Music: Derek Davies , Sophie Green, Fabio Muccini
Dance: Helen Clarke-Lapin, Belinda Cussens, Rena Czaplinska, Mike Green, Mircalla Havier,
Catherine Magill, Caterina Mocciola
Animation/drawing/dance: Lisa Roberts
Executive producer: Ken Wilson
Oceanic Living Data El Mar, Mi Alma (The Sea, My Soul)
