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Weather or Not: Current Conditions – 2022-present              digital imaging

This is a commissioned work by Five Points Art Center for permanent installation at the campus and as an online web project. It originally collected weather data in real time from a tower on the grounds and combined it with live RSS news ticker feeds from CNN, New York Times, and Al Jazeera into a live data visualization. The background glitch images are sets of stills from video that change in sync with the change in solar exposure. Each still, within each set, changes synchronously with the wind speed. The point of origin of the white lines coincides with the wind direction - north, south, east, west. The frequency of lines are drawn with regard to the wind speed and humidity combined. The color of the news feed changes with the time of day.

The concept of the project is to generate a data visualization that contrasts a representation of local physical conditions with international cultural and social conditions in the world.

Special thanks go to Amanda Bunce whose Ph.D. research is based on the data generated by this weather tower to assess climatic conditions and their effect on tree growth and sustainability. The original weather data was programmed by Amanda Bunce.

Presently, the weather data is scraped from a regional online weather service and not from the tower on site, due to the instability of the software originally used for the project. The project was programmed by Tim Lawless.

Weather or Not: Current Conditions was funded by the Torrington Savings Bank to whom we are grateful. 

Seen here is a sample of the project. To see the live project go to the
> PROJECT SITE <
(Best viewed on desktop computers. It is not yet compatable with phones or tablets)