Cyclone

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Description
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.
Keywords
  • aesthetics
    • animated
    • installation-based
  • genres
    • database art
  • subjects
    • Art and Science
      • databases
      • dynamical systems
    • Media and Communication
      • Internet
      • visualization
    • Nature and Environment
      • weather
    • Technology and Innovation
      • simulation
  • technology
    • displays
      • electronic displays
        • projectors
Technology & Material
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.
Exhibitions & Events
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