The Southern Ocean Studies

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In 2009 we began a project with the British Antarctic Survey to explore how the data it derives from its research in the Southern Ocean could be redeployed in public forms. The project builds out from the conceptual themes achieved in our previous work Cyclone.soc, but specifically explores the phenomena of climate models as vehicles of communication of environmental change and as emergent cultural phenomena in their own right.

The Southern Ocean Studies are part of a series of projects which aims to explore how Climate Models can function as representations of climate change beyond their original scientific contexts and purpose, i.e. as art media with expressive, conceptual and critical potential. The climate models used as the basis for the work described here, use data parameters specific to the dynamics of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current which is a major component of the Southern Ocean.