LAST CLOUDS
It’s always a clear day in google maps. Most of the clouds are edited out. The remaining few can still be found at higher zoom levels, and in this project we find them, name them, and preserve them, before they get edited out too.
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.