Weather as Medium: Toward a Meteorological Art

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Janine Randerson (Auckland University of Technology) Roger F. Malina (Leonardo Executive Editor, Leonardo/ISAST)

Weather as Medium

Toward a Meteorological Art

Janine Randerson (Auckland University of Technology), Roger F. Malina (Leonardo Executive Editor, Leonardo/ISAST), Sean Cubitt (Professor of Film and Television Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London)

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MIT Press
30 October 2018

The Arts: General & Reference; Meteorology & climatology

Series: Weather as Medium

"An exploration of artworks that use weather or atmosphere as the primary medium, creating new coalitions of collective engagement with the climate crisis.

In a time of climate crisis, a growing number of artists use weather or atmosphere as an artistic medium, collaborating with scientists, local communities, and climate activists. Their work mediates scientific modes of knowing and experiential knowledge of weather, probing collective anxieties and raising urgent ecological questions, oscillating between the ""big picture systems view"" and a ground-based perspective. In this book, Janine Randerson explores a series of meteorological art projects from the 1960s to the present that draw on sources ranging from dynamic, technological, and physical systems to indigenous cosmology.

Randerson finds a precursor to today's meteorological art in 1960s artworks that were weather-driven and infused with the new sciences of chaos and indeterminacy, and she examines work from this period by artists including Hans Haacke, Fujiko Nakaya, and Aotearoa-New Zealand kinetic sculptor Len Lye. She looks at live experiences of weather in art, in particular Fluxus performance and contemporary art that makes use of meteorological data streams and software. She describes the use of meteorological instruments, including remote satellite sensors, to create affective atmospheres; online projects and participatory performances that create a new form of ""social meteorology""; works that respond directly to climate change, many from the Global South; artist-activists who engage with the earth's diminishing cryosphere; and a speculative art in the form of quasi-scientific experiments. Art's current eddies of activity around the weather, Randerson writes, perturb the scientific hold on facts and offer questions of value in their place."

By: Janine Randerson (Auckland University of Technology)
Series edited by: Roger F. Malina (Leonardo Executive Editor Leonardo/ISAST), Sean Cubitt (Professor of Film and Television Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 24mm
ISBN: 9780262038270
ISBN 10: 0262038277
Series: Weather as Medium
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 30 October 2018
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Janine Randerson is a media artist and curator and Senior Lecturer in the School of Art and Design at Auckland University of Technology.