Revisiting the Cloud/s: Interfacing open weather data for live audio-visual performance

Abstract

What does the Anthropocene look like? Should it be described as a singular decisive moment, or a series of banal everyday events? How implicit can an individual feel within such an evolving and accumulative system? This paper explores such questions, through the lens of performative digital arts practice, presenting projects that interface the weather with digital systems, remediating atmospheric data with audio-visual performance tools, to reconfigure how we access and therefore analyse such phenomena. Weather has traditionally been perceived as rather banal, except for particularly significantly abnormal events. Today in a media landscape of fake news, attacks on scientific research and climate change denial, this paper argues that new methods are required for how we interface humans with weather data, be it archival, real time or predictive. Digital media offers novel solutions for the reconfiguring of weather data signification, that allow for a deepening of discourses relating to the weather, through a range of interactive and locational scenarios.

Contributors

Julian Stadon

Conference

Publication date: July 2018

Publication date (Print): July 2018

Pages: 310-314

Affiliations

University of Hertfordshire

223 Bromyard House, Bromyard Ave.

London W3 7BN, UK

Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.61

Copyright statement: © Stadon. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of EVA London 2018, UK

License:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

Conference acronym: EVA

Conference number:

Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 9 - 13 July 2018

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

Product

Product Information: 1477-9358BCS Learning & Development

Self URI (article page): https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.61

Self URI (journal page): https://ewic.bcs.org/

Categories

Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing