“Climate Art: New Ways of Seeing Data” Exhibition
The IMC Lab + Gallery
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The IMC Lab + Gallery presents “Climate Art: New Ways of Seeing Data”, a data visualization show, in collaboration with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Ballroom Marfa & NRDC, curated by Isabel Draves, founder of LISA (Leaders in Software and Art). This exhibit will be on view October 12 through November 27 as part of Marfa Dialogues/NY, a citywide examination of climate change science, environmental activism and artistic practice taking place throughout New York this October and November. Marfa Dialogues/NY will feature more than 20 Program Partners, including The IMC Lab + Gallery, NRDC, and a spectrum of exhibitions, performance, and interdisciplinary discussions at the intersection of the arts and climate change.
Can the things we once thought of as infinite be quantified? If they are not infinite, when will they end?
Featuring work by Aaron Koblin, Ben Fry, Ursula Endlicher, Nathalie Miebach, Karolina Sobecka, and Camille Seaman, this collection of works brings together for the first time a selection of pieces by established software artists that attempt to measure the immeasurable: the directed gaze, existence, the sky, power. Looked at through the lens of Climate Change, these works make us think about our interaction with the natural world, and whether something that used to seem impassive, impenetrable, and immovable — the globe, the bedrock we stand on, this Earth — is in fact as fragile as a cloud.
If taking the measure of something means forming an opinion about it, the data driving these pieces make us think more carefully about the logistics of our environment. The exhibit invites the viewer to notice our ecosystem and consider our impact upon it as a real and quantifiable force.
“In an era of climate change and species extinction, it only makes sense that we try to document the minutiae of what remains. But it is just as logical to pause from time to time to consider what cannot be calculated”. Akiko Busch, Author, The Incidental Steward: Reflections on Citizen Science
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Schedule
from October 12, 2013 to November 27, 2013
A Discussion with Maya Lin and Frances Beinecke Connecting Art and Climate at 6 to 8pm on Nov 4th.