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A Conversation Between Trees: What Data Feels Like in Forest. Rachel Jacobs 1 , Steve Benford 1 , Mark Selby 1 , Mike Golembewski 1 , Dominic Price 1 and Gabriella Giannachi 2. 1. Mixed Reality Laboratory & Horizon University of Nottingham, UK - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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A Conversation Between Trees: What Data Feels Like in Forest
Rachel Jacobs1, Steve Benford1, Mark Selby1, Mike Golembewski1, Dominic
Price1 and Gabriella Giannachi2
1. Mixed Reality Laboratory & Horizon University of Nottingham, UK2. Centre for Intermedia University of Exeter Exeter, UK
CHI 2013
Outline
• Introductions• Related work• The Artwork - A Conversation Between Trees• Approach to The Study• Findings• Discussion• Conclusion
Introduction(1/2)
• Global and long-term nature of climate change data defies easy or immediate comprehension.
Introduction(2/2)
• A particular group of artists in engaging the public with climate change data. – How this group of artists interpreted and
presented scientific data as part of an artwork. – Presenting a detailed account of the design of this
artwork from the ground up. – Artists, the public, but also of a climate scientist.
Related Work
• Environmentally engaged artists • Syntheses of science, action and art• How in following this approach artists have to
walk a line between the artistic and scientific treatment of data.
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A Conversation Between Trees(1/4)
• Forest GalleryVisitors
A Conversation Between Trees(2/4)
• Environmental sensor data – Local temperature, humidity, decibel and CO2 – Visualized on two large displays that face each
other across the gallery
A Conversation Between Trees(3/4)
• Climate Machine– Visualizes recorded and predicted global CO2
levels by slowly burning circular graphs onto large circular disks of recycled paper.
A Conversation Between Trees(4/4)
• Visitors – Walking in the local UK forest during which they
enact being a sensor with mobile phone
Approach to The Study(1/3)
• The artist’s perspective:– The designer of the climate machine – The developer of the visualisations mobile
application– The collaborating artist in Brazil
Approach to The Study(2/3)
• The visitor’s perspective:– Semi-structured interviews that took place
immediately after the experience
Approach to The Study(3/3)
• The climate scientist’s perspective:– Capture their perspective of the work and their
view of the role of the artists’ engagements with climate change.
Findings
• Engaging audiences with climate data• Embedded and embodied experience• Performing data– Slowness – Liveness
• Multiple Interpretations and Dialogue
Discussion(1/2)
• The role of the artists– Not about presenting canonical interpretations of
data– provoke an emotional response.
Discussion(2/2)
• How artists provoke engagement and interpretation– To encourage a sensory engagement with data – To bring a unique temporality to engagement with
the climate data – the juxtaposition of different elements that
present contrasting datasets – Live, recorded, and predicted
Conclusion(1/3)
• Contribution– A group of artists used to engage with scientific
climate change data – By triangulating between the perspectives of the
artists, visitors and a climate change scientist, to understand how these worked
Conclusion(2/3)
• Three broad strategies – Embodying scientific data in various material ways
so as to provide a rich sensory and aesthetic experience
– Adopting a performative temporal structure that combined both slowness with liveness;
Conclusion(3/3)
– Juxtaposing multiple, contrasting and yet related, elements so as to invite comparisons while opening up spaces between them for interpretation and dialogue
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