Translating Climate Data into Art and Impact
summary
Transforms 800,000 years of CO2 data into a woven, interactive timeline that maps CO2 ppm against human arrival and is installed remotely with three bullet‑point instructions; shows a beta visualization used at COP26, Nobel Prize Summit and New York Times Climate Hub; launched the bioplastic record with Michael Stipe and Brian Eno as a PVC alternative; demonstrates Microsoft Research encoding terabytes into glass to be preserved 10,000 years, claiming lower long‑term storage energy.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:58From An Inconvenient Truth to climate art
- 4:29Meeting Nobel Laureate at Bell Labs
- 7:00NASA CO2 data inspires project
- 8:48Visualizing 800 000 years of CO2 data
- 12:25Remote installation impact
- 13:08Art as awareness and solutions
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