Tackle Climate Change Through Art: A case study

• Published in: Electronic Workshops in Computing,
• Main Authors: Di Bartolo, Florent, Hautbois, Xavier
• Other Authors: Littératures, Savoirs et Arts (LISAA), Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (UPEM), Centre d'Histoire Culturelle des Sociétés Contemporaines (CHCSC), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Paris-Saclay
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2022
• Subjects: Data visualisation; Speculative computing; Digital Art; Datascape; Creative visualisation; Anthropocene; Climate Change; Visual music; Destructured musical form; Music; [SHS.ART]Humanities and Social Sciences/Art and art history; [INFO.INFO-HC]Computer Science [cs]/Human-Computer Interaction [cs.HC]; [SHS.MUSIQ]Humanities and Social Sciences/Musicology and performing arts; Ross Ice Shelf; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03715315; https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2022.3

International audience This paper describes the creative process behind the creation of an audiovisual installation. Titled The Great Acceleration (2021), this installation is built upon scientific data simulating the retreat of the Ross Ice Shelf from 2015 to 2100. The dataset is the result of a computer simulation based on a scientific model provided by researchers from the Laboratory for Sciences of Climate and Environment (LSCE). The paper details the methodology used to offer a sensitive experience of climate change through the analysis of a large amount of data and the creation of generative audiovisual compositions. It describes the artistic approach and how the dataset related to the Ross Ice Shelf activity has been processed in order to create visual compositions and shape sounds. The paper also explains the relationship between these images and sounds and how they react to external outputs such as the presence and movement of visitors within an exhibition space.