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Technology
Installation Requirements / 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.
Descriptions & Essays
YCLONE.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 visualization of hurricanes - whose complex structures are used to visualize the conversational churn and eddies of the newsgroup conversations.
Literature
Ludovico, Alessandro. »New Zealand Report.« Neural.it 32 (Spring 2009).
Corby, Tom. »Landscape of Feeling, Arenas of Action: Information Visualization
as Art Practice.« Leonardo 41, no. 5 (October 2008): 460-467.
Corby, Tom and Gavin Baily. »Extra-Ordinary Practices.« In Extra-Ordinary Practices: A Retrospective of British Media Art, edited by , 53-64. Dresden: 2006.
Baumgärtel, Tilman. »Media Online.« In Art Meets Media: Adventures in Perception, edited by , 138ff. Tokyo: NTT Publishing Co., 2005.
Corby, Tom, ed. Network Art: Practices and Positions. London: Routledge, 1990.
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