Sunday, August 22nd 4:00 PM
Flux Factory: 39-31 29th Street, Long Island City.
Free and open to the public
The artist-run SP Weather Station, currently based on the roof of Flux Factory, invites you to a release party for its 2009 Weather Report portfolios. Each portfolio in the edition of 30 contains 12 works produced by 12 different artists who were invited to respond to any aspect of one month of SP Weather Station data in any format they desired. Works from the portfolio, including audio, books, drawings, and prints, will be on display in the gallery; the portfolio will also be for sale.
Participating artists include: (January) Mike Estabrook and Vandana Jain; (February) Susan Goethel Campbell; (March) Emily Larned; (April) Luke Strosnider; (May) Andrea Polli; (June) Mark Nystrom; (July) Patricia Zarate; (August) Jane D. Marsching; (September) Stephanie Rothenberg; (October) Graham Parker; (November) Isaac Gertman; (December) Birgit Rathsmann
SP Weather Station is an interdisciplinary project that collects weather data, hosts a Guest Lecture Series, and organizes weather-related publications, events, and exhibitions.
Guest post from SPWS friend and 2010 Weather Interpreter Tim Dye:
On the banks of the Huangpu River, MeteoWorld showcases the weather community’s technological accomplishments. It’s the first-ever pavilion for the weather community and a really cool place if you’re a weather and technology geek.
Its cloud-like roof mists, sending a cooling rain on visitors who spend over an hour waiting in Shanghai’s scorching sun to enter this atmospheric wonder land. Upon entering the cloud, you’re treated to meteorological accomplishments of the last 100 years – in weather soundings, radar, satellite, and television weather.
It begins with a cute 3-D movie of two cloud-droplet cartoon characters who venture through the water cycle. Next up is an 8-ft globe showing satellite movies taken from weather satellites. All sorts of weather instruments and pictures chronicle the past century of meteorological technical achievements. Last, you can participate in a television weather broadcast and become a TV forecaster for a minute.
The 2010 Shanghai World Expo is like Disney’s Epcot Center on steroids. It covers over 1,300 acres and expects over 70 million visitors. Expo pavilions showcase countries from North Korea to New Zealand and technology from Cisco to the Chinese Railroad Association.
MeteoWorld was sponsored by the Chinese Meteorological Association, the World Meteorological Association, and the Group on Earth Observations.”
Published: April 15, 2010
By SIMON WINCHESTER
Sandisfield, Mass.
IN planetary terms, it was just a tiny pinprick that opened up last month underneath the Eyjafjalla Glacier in southern Iceland, when a long-forgotten volcano started to erupt again after a quiescence of nearly 200 years. But insignificant though the rent in the planet’s fabric may have been, uncounted millions have been suddenly affected by it.
The North Atlantic winds shifted by just a few degrees, and all of a sudden commercial catastrophe has been visited on northern Europe: air traffic peremptorily shut down, the skies cleared of planes wary of flying through the high-altitude streams of the volcano’s brutally corrosive airborne silica dust.
The last time the world was so mightily affected in this way was in 1883, when a similarly tiny vent in the earth’s surface opened up on the island of Krakatoa, between Java and Sumatra, in what is now Indonesia. Some 40,000 people died because of that eruption — it was a much more fierce event, and in a much more populated place. But the clouds of dust that cascaded upward into the stratosphere affected the entire planet for the rest of the year on the same scale — except that the effects themselves were of a profoundly different kind. Read more »
As of yesterday, we’re 90% of the way to collating and boxing the 2009 SP Weather Reports! The folio for 2009 will include works by: Mike Estabrook & Vandana Jain (January); Susan Goethel Campbell (February); Emily Larned (March); Luke Strosnider (April); Andrea Polli (May); Mark Nystrom (June); Patricia Zarate (July); Jane D. Marsching (August); Stephanie Rothenberg (September); Graham Parker (October); Isaac Gertman (November); and Birgit Rathsmann (December).
Thanks to Dale Inglett and the folks at the Alfred BAFA program for sharing space with us this weekend… and stay tuned, we hope to make them available soon.
March 8 – April 4, 2010
Reception: Thursday, March 25th from 5-7pm
Meyerson Hall Gallery 210 South 34th Street Philadelphia, PA 19104
Hours: Monday-Friday, 10-5pm
View University of Pennsylvania School of Design press release
Birgit Rathsmann, artist and 2009 SPWS Weather Interpreter (December) is presenting work in a temporary space at 163 Eldridge.
Upcoming:
Sunday, February 28th, 2010, 4PM and 5PM
Fronts
A performance by Ryan McNamara + Birgit Rathsmann
A weather forecaster shaman seeds and unleashes a human storm.
Featuring Kim Brandt, Samara Davis, Jack Ferver, Miriam Katz and Bevin McNamara
163 Eldridge Street near Delancey
On February 20th, Birgit created a one-night cinema to screen HurSeas08.mov, a looped and altered version of an NOAA video that condenses satellite imagery from the 2008 hurricane season, combining it with various soundtracks (of music both commissioned and found). Presented with video introductions by Hollis Witherspoon impersonating Werner Herzog, Birgit’s project has a peculiar blend of romanticism and irony.
With help from numerous Flux-ers (thanks Nick, Ian, Jean, Georgia, et al) the SPWS base station has been installed in a library-nook at Flux Factory in time for their inaugural group show, HOUSEBROKEN.
Please join us Friday February 19th, 8pm-12am – check the local conditions, browse the library, see work by 40 artists…
Flux Factory
39-31 29th Street, LIC, NY 11101
Suggested donation $15
Please rsvp to rsvp@fluxfactory.org
Housebroken will remain on view every Saturday and Sunday from 12 – 6 pm until March 21st.
Read more »
In lieu of functioning data uploads, SPWS is relying non-digital weather sensing technologies.
Punxsutawney Phil Video
Phil’s prediction was also made available this year via SMS, by texting “Groundhog” to 247365 by Groundhog Day.
Thanks to Liz for the suggestion.
Those who avidly follow the live uploads of SPWS data on PWS Weather and Weather Underground may have noticed something funny in recent weeks. Following a string of technical glitches, the station was hit by a piece of flying debris and the flow of data has stopped until our team can devise a solution.
For the time being, check out the weather data on nearby Roosevelt Island?
In other weather-news: Hans Haacke’s first solo exhibition in a New York institution since 1986, “Weather, or not” is on view for TWO MORE DAYS only at X-Initiative.
SP Weather Station is participating in the next dorkbot-nyc:
Wednesday, January 6th at 7pm
Location One (26 Greene St, NYC)
Free / bring a snack to share!
Program for the evening:
John Saunders: Home Shop CNC Machining in NYC and Rapid Prototyping
Natalie Campbell: SP Weather Station
Victor Adán & Douglas Repetto: Chiplotle — now that’s a spicy plotter library!
More info: http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotnyc/06.jan.2010/
About dorkbot-nyc:
dorkbot-nyc is a monthly meeting of artists (sound/image/movement/whatever), designers, engineers, students, scientists, and other interested parties from the new york area who are involved in the creative use of electricity. dorkbot meetings are free and open to the public. Since we started dorkbot-nyc in 2000 many other dorkbots have sprung up around the world. See them all at: http://dorkbot.org
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