Technical difficulties &c.

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.

SPWS 2008 Weather Reports @ IPCNY: Opens 1/14/10

SPWS 2008 Weather Reports on view in:

New Prints 2010/Winter
International Print Center New York

526 West 26th Street, Rm.824
Between 10th and 11th Avenues
New York, New York, 10001

http://www.ipcny.org/exhib/exhib_np/edit_np_w10/w10_pr.html

On View: January 12 – February 20, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 14, 6-8 pm

Featuring works by Leah Beeferman, Natalie Campbell, Carrie Dashow, Neil Freeman, Richard Garrison, Michael Geminder, Katarina Jerinic, Daniel Larson, Bridget Lewis, Lize Mogel, Heidi Neilson, Chris Petrone, Sarah Nicole Phillips, Jing Yu, and Liz Zanis

SPWS @ dorkbot, 1/6/10

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

SP Weather Reports on Printeresting!

A nice feature on Printeresting!

http://www.printeresting.org/2009/11/14/sp-weather-station-artists-respond-to-the-meteorological/

In 2007 Natalie Campbell and Heidi Neilson had the novel idea of creating the SP Weather Station, a “rooftop base station” in Long Island City. The project would combine interests in making art, meteorlogical phenomonon and generally bringing interesting people together. The hosted a lecture series, organized weather related publications, and organized exhibitions and events. Their contextualization of the project:

SP Weather Station builds on the existing international phenomenon of Personal Weather Stations. Weather station enthusiasts worldwide combine DIY analogue technology with organized web forums for collecting and analyzing data. By recording its neighborhood’s environmental conditions, SPWS participates in and add to some of the many ways people have, throughout history, made their own weather observations. SPWS maintains an interest in new and historical technologies, and in how individuals relate to broader systems and patterns.

In a stroke of genius they invited twelve artists to create a portfolio of prints responding to the previous years weather collection.

To read and see pictures of the prints more follow the jump.

“On Clouds” @ Observatory, Brooklyn / SPWS Lecture 10/21/09

On Clouds

Observatory, Brooklyn
543 Union Street (at Nevins)
Through November 15th
featuring a Guest Lecture by SPWS on 10/21, 8pm!

In the first exhibition at Observatory, Brooklyn, on view through November 15th, James Walsh presents photos and prints in conjunction with an evening program of projections, performances, poetry, and other events by various artists throughout the run of the show.

James’ thoughtfully installed work includes a series of letterpress prints based on John Ruskin’s journals, paired with photographs of details of cloud-painting taken from dioramas in the American Museum of Natural History.  In both, he considers how recording the clouds is an act of both ‘objective’ study and ‘subjective’ projection.

In conjunction with his show, James has invited a number of artists to reflect on this theme (in forms as varied and elusive as the clouds themselves!). In the gallery, Jen Bervin presents a spread from her book a non-breaking space. A series of evening events has included a reading by Joshua Beckman (we were invited to bring pillows; Joshua read texts by himself and others as we lay outstretched, eyes on the ceiling); a lecture by Klara Hobza (a tour through modern cloud classification, with lots of pictures, and a summary of current cloud-making practice); and a slideshow of work by Pauline Curnier Jardin and Catriona Shaw (with excerpts of their work-in-progress, a cloud-opera).

SPWS is happy to be participating:
October 21st, 8pm:

“Taxonomy of Taxonomy of Clouds,” an SPWS lecture in conjunction with:
a performative lecture by Madeline Djerejian + screenings of videos by Celeste Fichter, Birgit Rathsmann, James Walsh and Lisa Young / $5 suggested donation

Live from Conflux!

The SPWS Computing Centre is in action…

Sunday 9/20: Conflux Festival SPWS Open House @ Flux Factory

SP Weather Station Open House @ Flux Factory
(part of Conflux Festival’s 2009 ConfluxCity)

Sunday, September 20th 2009 12-4pm
Flux Factory: 39-31 29th Street, Long Island City
Free and open to the public

SP Weather Station is happy to announce its relocation to Flux Factory’s new building. In conjunction with the city-wide ConfluxCity events, we invite the public to visit the new station base for an informal presentation, introductory tours and a glimpse into the Long Island City microclimate.

View SPWS Flux Station data online at PWS Weather and Weather Underground!

“Weather Reports” in Philly Weekly!

Luke Strosnider, "April 2009"

SP Weather Station exhibition “Weather Reports” featured in the new issue of Philly Weekly!

Weather or Not:
A new exhibit at AHN/VHS focuses on meteorological data.

by Roberta Fallon of artblog

“If there’s angst or hysteria about global warming, it’s hidden in the group show “Weather Reports.” Instead of melting ice caps and imperiled polar bears, AHN/VHS’ quiet, small works show—which features drawings, prints, video and mixed media—focuses on the daily weather data recorded at Long Island City’s artist-run SP Weather Station….”

Read more!

Philly ‘Weather Report’ Report

Thanks to Lauren and Julie from AHN|VHS for a great opening and introduction to Philly. Many thanks also to all the participating artist-interpreters (Leah Beeferman, Carrie Dashow, Natalie Campbell, Susan G. Campbell, Mike Estabrook, Neil Freeman, Richard Garrison, Michael Geminder, Vandana Jain, Katarina Jerinic, Emily Larned, Daniel Larson, Bridget Lewis, Lize Mogel, Heidi Neilson, Mark Nystrom, Chris Petrone, Sarah Nicole Phillips, Luke Strosnider, Jing Yu and Liz Zanis) for their contributions!

More images of the installation are here: http://ahnvhs.com/artwork/913524_SP_Weather_Station_Weather_Reports.html 
(click on the lower right under “next” to scroll through…)

Besides the show, highlights of the visit were an introduction to the (free, fantastic, little-known treasure) Wagner Free Institute of Science by librarian Lynn Dorwaldt; not only did we tour the museum’s collection of specimens and fossils, but we browsed the collection of 19th century meteorology books.

If you visit AHN|VHS (appointments are required, through August) ask to see the great (affordable!) selection of work in their flatfile; also check out the other great shows in the building (at Vox Populi (especially the great Reanimation Library installation), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (especially the wall with David Scanavino’s pulp pieces on top of a wall papered by Ethan Greenbaum), etc etc etc.

SPWS at AHN|VHS, Philadelphia: 8/7/09, 7-10 PM

Please join us Friday, August 7th, 7-10 pm at AHN|VHS, Philadelphia, for the opening of SP Weather Station: Weather Reports, featuring artist projects from January 2008 onwards (details below).

The limited edition 2008 SPWS portfolio is now available! Please contact us for info.

AHN|VHS
319A North 11th Street, 4th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
www.ahnvhs.com
info@ahnvhs.com

SP Weather Station
Weather Reports
August 7 – 30, 2009
Opening: Friday August 7th, 7-10pm

AHN|VHS presents an exhibition of data interpretive art work for the SP Weather Station, a project of the SP Artist Collective in Long Island City, NY. Co-founded by artists Natalie Campbell and Heidi Neilson in 2007, the SP Weather Station is an interdisciplinary project that collects weather data, and organizes weather-related publications, events, and exhibitions, while maintaining a rooftop weather station.

Over the course of 2008, SPWS invited numerous “Guest Interpreters” to create weather reports using its data. As artist participant and co-founder Heidi Neilson states, the project revealed “the infinite possibilities for the interpretation of data, and some of the problems this presents.” The work produced by these artist interpreters ranges from stark to whimsical to utterly chaotic. Artist Michael Geminder created a minimal four word summary of one month’s weather laser cut in cardboard, while Katarina Jerinic created a temporary tattoo for one’s index finger which measures the direction of the wind. In a video and live drawing collaboration by Natalie Campbell, Daniel Larson, Heidi Neilson, Jing Yu, and Liz Zanis, the changes in wind direction over the course of a day are read allowed while the artists attempt to collectively illustrate the rapidly shifting patterns.

SPWS has compiled these interpretations into a portfolio which will be on view in the AHN|VHS gallery. Guest Interpreters contributing to the portfolio include Leah Beeferman, Carrie Dashow, Natalie Campbell, Susan G. Campbell, Mike Estabrook, Neil Freeman, Richard Garrison, Michael Geminder, Vandana Jain, Katarina Jerinic, Emily Larned, Daniel Larson, Bridget Lewis, Lize Mogel, Heidi Neilson, Mark Nystrom, Chris Petrone, Sarah Nicole Phillips, Luke Strosnider, Jing Yu and Liz Zanis.

According to SPWS, the “By recording its neighborhood’s environmental conditions, SPWS participates in and adds to some of the many ways people have, throughout history, made their own weather observations. SPWS maintains an interest in new and historical technologies, and in how individuals relate to broader systems and patterns.” And as Neilson says, “…the weather is always around, and all around us; monitoring devices can be as sophisticated or as rudimentary as we need them, in that moment, to be. Anyone can access consistent, scientifically acquired weather data… Taking one’s own weather data implies an interest in the system itself, regardless of its accuracy; it means valuing the system’s internal logic and following its leads.”

SP Weather Station has exhibited at The Queens Museum, Eyebeam, and most recently in Ithaca, NY as participants in the “To Let” exhibition series. SP Weather Station is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization.

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About AHN|VHS: Gallery owners Julianne Ahn and Lauren van Haaften-Schick are Philadelphia-based artists and arts professionals. In addition to monthly exhibitions, AHN|VHS features a growing inventory of works on paper and editions in all media in our flat file and on our store shelves. All artwork is available for viewing and for sale in the gallery and at www.ahnvhs.com.