The Hottest Year on Record

the hottest year on record


title: The Hottest Year On Record

description: Data from the Global Mean Temperature Anomalies* (departure from the 1880 - 2006 base period average) are used to manipulate loop-based samples from George Harrison’s “Here Comes the Sun.” Each sound loop is a time sample representing one year. The speed at which the loop is played is relative to the Global Mean Temperature Anomalies for the year the loop represents.


format: video/vinyl record/Flash

exhibitions:

2009
Vision Shift! Art in the Age of Climate Change, Santa Fe Place, Santa Fe, NM

2008
Feet To The Fire Festival - Exploring Global Climate Change From Science to Art, Veteran's Park, Middletown, CT

SMart Festival, Open Concept Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI

Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

2007
"Climate Control" West Hall Gallery, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Troy, NY

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*ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/anomalies/annual.land_and_ocean.90S.90N.df_1901-2000mean.dat
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