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Cyclone.soc
Gavin Baily,
Tom Corby
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Cyclone.soc brings together two contemporary
phenomena:
- severe weather, the project uses weather data
that charts the emergence and progress of
hurricanes.
- the polarized nature of debate that occurs in
certain online newsgroup forums.
The project maps textual conversation taken from
the political and religious newsgroups to the
isobars of a dynamic, interactive weather visuali-
zation of hurricanes, whose complex structures
are used to visualize the conversational churn and
eddies of the newsgroup conversations.
In staging these interactions as a process of
meteorological precipitation, newsgroup conver-
sations “condense” in the working environment as
a temporal ambient patterning—a structuring that
acts not only as a metonym of difference, but of
ideological tensions which mirror the dynamics of
social space.
Cyclone.soc is a navigable environment that
gives the user the ability to zoom in or out and
skate across and through the cyclonic weather
formations in order to read or be immersed in the
newsgroup text.
Links: http://www.reconnoitre.net/rec_main/docs/cyclone.htm
phenomena:
- severe weather, the project uses weather data
that charts the emergence and progress of
hurricanes.
- the polarized nature of debate that occurs in
certain online newsgroup forums.
The project maps textual conversation taken from
the political and religious newsgroups to the
isobars of a dynamic, interactive weather visuali-
zation of hurricanes, whose complex structures
are used to visualize the conversational churn and
eddies of the newsgroup conversations.
In staging these interactions as a process of
meteorological precipitation, newsgroup conver-
sations “condense” in the working environment as
a temporal ambient patterning—a structuring that
acts not only as a metonym of difference, but of
ideological tensions which mirror the dynamics of
social space.
Cyclone.soc is a navigable environment that
gives the user the ability to zoom in or out and
skate across and through the cyclonic weather
formations in order to read or be immersed in the
newsgroup text.
Links: http://www.reconnoitre.net/rec_main/docs/cyclone.htm
The artists would like to thank the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council for their support for this project
Tom Corby (UK), born in1966, completed his PhD at Chelsea College of Art & Design in 2001. His research is concerned with deconstructing received assumptions concerning the role of software/computer code as a platform for “productivity” and “functionality”. He teaches at the University of Westminster on the MA Hypermedia and BA Contemporary Media Practice courses.
Gavin Baily (UK), born in1970, studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art (1990-93), and Computer Science at University College London (1996). He has been working with digital media since the mid 90’s and has exhibited at venues including the ICA, V&A museum, Ars Electronica and Transmediale.
Gavin Baily (UK), born in1970, studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art (1990-93), and Computer Science at University College London (1996). He has been working with digital media since the mid 90’s and has exhibited at venues including the ICA, V&A museum, Ars Electronica and Transmediale.