Atmosphere the sound and sight of CO2.mov

Investigating how interfaces affect the relation between the public and the private the installation Atmosphere the sound and sight of CO2 will, as part of COP15 activities in Copenhagen in December 2009, monitor the quantity of CO2 in the air at three different locations in Copenhagen and transform these data into an audiovisual expression that varies in accordance to the measured quantity of CO2. As such the installation presents itself as an artwork and as an interface that in a subtle and peripheral way presents to the public information on non-sensuous aspects of the environment. Aspects that relate to private activities like e.g. car driving and heating of houses. From a research perspective the installation relates to interface design/interface aesthetics, sonification (the auditory equivalence of data visualization), and to a broader philosophical discussion concerning representational vs. computational aspects of space perception.


Credits
Atmosphere is a joint collabo-ration between Hopenhagen LIVE and Center for Digital Urban Living, University of Aarhus.

Realisation and idea: Morten Suder Riis, Tobias Ebsen, Rasmus B. Lunding and Morten Breinbjerg.

Center for Digital Urban Living wishes to thank The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the National Gallery of Denmark.
For further information please contact Associate Professor Morten Breinbjerg.
mbrein@multimedia.au.dk

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