Picture Sky
Cloud observers spread around the city take photographs looking up at the sky during the flyover of either TERRA or AQUA satellite. Their images are stitched together to form a single large image, opposite and equal to the one taken by the satellite.
How To Watch The Sky
This practice of regulated athleticism prepares us for the transformation we are about to undergo, and acute uncertainties associated with it.
Cloud Tasting
The clouds contain the traces of the environments and the human activity they have passed over. For each Cloud Tasting event the history of the air masses which were sampled was traced back.
Clouds, From Both Sides
In this project the clouds are photographed simultaneously from the ground looking up, and from a satellite looking down.
While a satellite passes over our geo-location, we take a photograph looking towards the satellite. We record an observation of the clouds from the perspective of a human experience. Later we download the satellite’s image and the cloud analysis. The two pairs of observations and images are displayed together.
The participants in the project come from different backgrounds, including writers, climate scientists, artists, art&tech curators, geo-engineers, weathermen, students and participants in cloud workshops.
Thinking Like A Cloud
Thinking Like A Cloud is a research project focused on developing a scheme to spark a potentially radical expansion of the human mind. We collect cloud samples in the troposphere with the Cloud Collector launched on a weather balloon. The samples are ingested by experimental subjects, and the microbes found in the samples are examined for their role in ecosystems and their influence on human behavior.
Cloud Machine
The Cloud Machine is a personal device for weather modification. It consists of cloud-making gear sent up into the atmosphere in a weather-balloon payload. As it reaches specific altitudes it disperses Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) and water vapor. Moisture in the air condenses into cloud droplets around the CCN, forming into small clouds. This method is inspired by a geo-engineering technique proposed to create brighter, more reflective clouds which shield earth from sun’s radiation, and thus partly counteract the climate change.
Puff
Puff is is a cloud-shape car accessory that attaches near the exhaust pipe of automobiles. It’s color changes dynamically, visualizing the amount of pollution the car is producing. Puff captures feedback about how much pollution is produced during driving, helping drivers learn and improve driving practices that will minimize their impact. The project investigates the role of personal devices in visualizing environmental impacts, the process of bringing such devices to market, the distribution and diffusion of new devices to users, and other critical issues of consumption-related practices.
Line of Sight
This project investigates the relationship between visibility and landscape, and the mechanisms of how landscape is turned into territory.
Transformation
In biology ‘transformation’ refers to altering a DNA in an organism thereby changing its life functions or behavior. As an analogy for achieving a transformation of a society we are attempting to change the information in the societal system by designing ideologies that control our behavior.
LAST CLOUDS
In this project I preserve the clouds remaining in Google maps, crawling through Google Earth at higher zoom levels detecting clouds and posting them to a tumblr, together with its location.
Google started removing clouds from Google Earth, they are algorithmically edited out of the picture. The resulting image presents us with a world not only fully visible (and thus presumed knowable) but also static. The evidence of change is left out as in the early photographs which required the shutter to be open for a long time and thus registered only the things that persisted for a long time. The familiar street-level view transformed in this way looks eery, but the satellite image, already alien to our senses, can pass this illusion without us noticing that there is anything wrong. Clouds provide a twofold epistemological reminder: they are the fuzziness, the blur, the obscuration as part of knowing. They are also a constant reminder of the churning of the planetary engine, of the fact that change is a fundamental quality of our world.