CYCLONE.SOC
Corby, T. 2006. CYCLONE.SOC. Ars Electronica Centre, Linz 05 - 11 Sep 2006
Corby, T. 2006. CYCLONE.SOC. Ars Electronica Centre, Linz 05 - 11 Sep 2006
| Creators | Corby, T. |
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| Description | By mapping social debris from Internet chat rooms to real-time weather data, Corby and Baily’s immersive, interactive, digital installation Cyclone.soc developed suggestive links between extreme belief systems and the effects of global warming. Selected for Ars Electronica, Linz where it won a festival prize. Cyclone.soc brings together real-time images of severe conditions bought about by global warming with extremist political and religious opinions posted in Internet chat rooms. It exists as an immersive, interactive environment which it is possible to walk into, giving the overall effect of being caught within emerging storm fronts, albeit consisting of the conversational churn and eddy of arguments and counter-arguments that are occurring live on the Internet. The project aims to broker subtle discourses that focus on the interconnectedness of technology and its effects in the material world, developing a suggestive link between belief systems and their potential wider material impacts. Cyclone.soc is innovatory in bringing scientific visualisation techniques to bear on complex social and environmental conditions, thereby producing novel aesthetic forms that draw upon both critical art and scientific practices in ways rarely seen in the digital arts. International recognition of this work comes through a jury award (honorary mention alongside 14 other artists) at Prix Ars Electronica 2006, (Ars Electronica is the highest profile international digital art festival); a prize at the Japanese Media Art Festival, March 2007, (alongside 7 other artists in the Internet division). Cyclone.soc was also exhibited at ‘Connecting Worlds’ at ICC InterCommunication Centre, Tokyo, alongside Fischli & Weiss, Dennis Oppenheim and Usman Haque. An AHRC Research Leave award (£22,000) supported production. Reviews include: InterCommunication (Japan), Artist’s Newsletter (UK). The project is also featured in The Fundamentals of Digital Art by Richard Colson (ISBN 978-2940373581). Cyclone.soc consists of bespoke software written in C++, publicly available weather data sets (involving research into scientific visualisation processes) and postings taken from internet chat rooms. Production and concept development was equally shared with Gavin Baily. |
| Year | 2006 |
| Web address (URL) | http://www.reconnoitre.net/cyclone/cyclone.html |