What is a Climate Artist ?

Roger F Malina

Director, Astronomical Observatory of Marseille Provence

President, Association Leonardo

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

Climate is invisible and doesn’t smell

Arrhenius 1896 :On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground

Modern Science doesn’t Make

Common Sense

Scientists no longer use their senses

Artists can make science intimatePigeon Blog Inside Outside Handbag

( Beatrice Da Costa) (Katherine Moriwaki )

Mediated Sensuality Da Vinci Sabrina Raaf

Water Studies Translator II

New Corporality; New Senses, Augmented Senses

Marcel-li Char Davies

Artists taking data for their own purposesMarco Peljham and Macrolab

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

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 »

The amount of data about our earth is increasing very rapidly

We will be immersed in data

Artists Embedded in Data:Data Aesthetics and Ethics

Donna Cox Ruth West Weather Data Bases Protein Sequence Data Bases

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….

A final thought on the inter connectedness of thingsSlime Mould, Neurons, Knowledge, Meanings, Climate

Softday Seema Goel

League of Imaginary Scientists

Peter d’AgostinoAnthony Lyons

&The Lovely

Weather Project

What is a Climate Artist ?

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

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

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

Peter Richards

• Projet « Invisible Dynamics »

• Appropriating the underlying physical and social processes that give a place « meaning »

• Re inventing a sacredness of places

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

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

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:

Open Observatories Manifesto

a) The right to the data taken about you and your world

b) Duty to collect and contribute open data

A final thought on the inter connectedness of thingsSlime Mould, Neurons, Knowledge, Meanings, Climate

Softday Seema Goel

League of Imaginary Scientists

Peter d’AgostinoAnthony Lyons

&The Lovely

Weather Project

What is a Climate Artist ?