PROJECT TITLE
“Data Creatures”
DETAILS
Renders of digital forms, computationally generated from remote sensing data of the Arctic Ocean.
SUPPORTED BY
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility
The New School
A/D/O Brooklyn
Goldsmiths, University of London
What if computational processes were built on the perspective of a whale? Or the logics of an Inuit myth? Or in a way that allows for multiple, contradictory versions of an event to co-exist? The three forms above are outcomes of a series of computational experiments - processing open-source environmental data from the Arctic Ocean in unconventional ways.
Acting as provocations, they make the case for expanded, more inclusive, computational processes in the production of remote imagery - in the face of the outsized influence of extractive industries and nation states in the production of the region’s material record.