At SP Weather Station last Sunday, LoVid (Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus) and Douglas Repetto spoke about their collaborative project Cross Current Resonance Transducer. As one of the founders of SPWS, I thought the talk was particularly well-timed: we are wrestling with some of the same issues that drive the CCRT investigations. As SPWS begins to invite Guest Interpreters … [Read more...]
Digital plants grow from weather data
Lightweeds - a project by Simon Heijdens Uniquely generated digital organisms--plant families--that grow up, move and behave closely depending on actual sunshine, rainfall and wind as measured live outside. On passing human traffic they bend, loose their seeds and pollinate to other walls throughout the space, to make up a constantly evolving wallpaper that reveals the … [Read more...]
Weather Permitting
WEATHER PERMITTING Weather Permitting investigates the phenomena of weather, from tornadoes in trailer parks to drifting ice shelves in the Antarctic. The project focuses on the culture and technologies of communication that are used to capture and transmit weather events. Conducted by Kathryn Yusoff and Jennifer Gabrys, two researchers with experience in geography, … [Read more...]
Reminder: Dress Warm
SP Weather Station's first Guest Lecture will take place this Sunday, March 2 at 3 PM. LoVid (Tali Hinkis & Kyle Lapidus) and Douglas Repetto speak about Cross Current Resonance TransducerPlease dress warm! No heat at the weather station, and it can feel colder inside than out (though we don't have data yet to back this up) … [Read more...]
Art exhibit addresses weather
The Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination is pleased to present the exhibition, Pathetic Fallacy: Weather and Imagination, which examines diverse ways in which artists and scientists record, capture and analyze the phenomenology of weather. How do actual weather conditions affect the sensibility of an artist? How does the climate influence his or her … [Read more...]