letterkenny what is a climate artist nov 2010 ss
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Roger Malina Presentation What is a Climate Artist, given at Letterkenny 2011TRANSCRIPT
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What is a Climate Artist ?
Roger F Malina
Director, Astronomical Observatory of Marseille Provence
President, Association Leonardo
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Petrarch and Mont Ventoux: 1304-1374
He took St. Augustine's Confessions from his pocket and reflected that his climb was merely an allegory of
aspiration towards a better life
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Climate is invisible and doesn’t smell
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Arrhenius 1896 :On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground
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Modern Science doesn’t Make
Common Sense
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Scientists no longer use their senses
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Artists can make science intimatePigeon Blog Inside Outside Handbag
( Beatrice Da Costa) (Katherine Moriwaki )
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Mediated Sensuality Da Vinci Sabrina Raaf
Water Studies Translator II
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New Corporality; New Senses, Augmented Senses
Marcel-li Char Davies
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Artists taking data for their own purposesMarco Peljham and Macrolab
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The Sound of Trees Growing
• David Dunn composer, sound artist
• Jim Crutchfield complexity scientist
• Recording of sounds of trees growing led to research project in the coupling of ultrasound from trees, beetles,… forest fires
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DATA• From a world of data
scarcity to a world of data plenty
• Historian Daniel Boorstin: From
Meaning rich and data poor Today : Data rich and meaning poor.
« Epistemological Inversion »
Cf N Carr « The Shallows »
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The amount of data about our earth is increasing very rapidly
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We will be immersed in data
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Artists Embedded in Data:Data Aesthetics and Ethics
Donna Cox Ruth West Weather Data Bases Protein Sequence Data Bases
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The Erotics The Erotics of DATAof DATA
•Data: – A flux, a fluid, an element
• Data Ethics• Data Aesthetics
• What does it feel like • What does it taste like• What does it sound like • What does it look like• What does it smell like
• Data Qualia….
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A final thought on the inter connectedness of thingsSlime Mould, Neurons, Knowledge, Meanings, Climate
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Softday Seema Goel
League of Imaginary Scientists
Peter d’AgostinoAnthony Lyons
&The Lovely
Weather Project
What is a Climate Artist ?
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L’IMéRA : Institut MÉditerranéen de Rechechers Avancees
• The Human Condition of the Sciences
• International Residency program for scientists, engineers, artists, humanities scholars
• Bridge Physical/Social Sciences/Arts/Humanities
• Pôle Méditerranée• Pôle Arts-Sciences-
Instrumentation-Languages
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Astronomers working
with Ecologists
• Climate Change Observatory
• Observatoire de Haute Provence
• Monitoring of ecological drift
• Controlled experiment on reduced rain fall
• H Vasselin: – Artist in Residence– IR and Motion Detectors
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Scot Gresham Lancaster
• IMERA resident 2011
• Sonification Artist
• Member HUB group
• Sonifying Terrain• Networked Sound• Big Data
– Data as a fluid, like air or water
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Peter Richards
• Projet « Invisible Dynamics »
• Appropriating the underlying physical and social processes that give a place « meaning »
• Re inventing a sacredness of places
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Marseille 2013 Hiking Trail Project
• From Arles to Toulon to Marseille to Aix
• 10 day hike• Urban, Industrial,
Forests, Agricultural, Coastal
• Making the urban and ecologies sensual
• Climate ChanteEnvironmental and Socia Change
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Community Remote Sensing• Remote sensing :• collection of data and information ‘from a distance’.
• Community remote sensing :– new field that combines remote sensing with:– citizen science– social networks– crowd-sourcing
– enhances data obtained from traditional sources.
• Artists working with scientists re appropriate the world using « mediated » senses
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IMERA OPEN OBSERVATORY Initiative:
• Coupling Common Sense to Common Science
• Micro-Science o Micro Science is to the National Science Foundation What Micro Credit is to the World Banko Science creating communities own their knowledge
• Making science intimateo Owning data about your own environmento Building intution, language from mediated sensory experienceo Artists taking scientific data for their own purposes
• Crowd Sourcing, Citizen’s Science, People’s Science
• Building a network and open tools repository:
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Open Observatories Manifesto
a) The right to the data taken about you and your world
b) Duty to collect and contribute open data
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A final thought on the inter connectedness of thingsSlime Mould, Neurons, Knowledge, Meanings, Climate
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Softday Seema Goel
League of Imaginary Scientists
Peter d’AgostinoAnthony Lyons
&The Lovely
Weather Project
What is a Climate Artist ?