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Climate Clock

Climate Clock Initiative Leadership Team

The Climate Clock is an art commission leading to a work of landmark art that incorporates Silicon Valley’s measurement and data management technologies to help people understand climate change while encouraging them to continue reducing their carbon footprint on planet Earth. The first implementation of the project will be in San José, but from the start, the goal is to establish a global program that will encourage and support the creation and installation of other climate clocks in communities and cities throughout the world.

Climate Clock
 

Creative contribution

What was the significant innovation in approach or thinking behind the project/artwork? How can this be recognisably attributed to the involvement of creative practice?

It is hoped that the Climate Clock commission will stimulate Silicon Valley’s creative sector. Already internationally recognized for the marriage of art and technology, Silicon Valley is inventing products and applying technology to new forms of creative expression and cultural production.

“The development of this project will be based on a residency period in San José. Three finalist teams, selected through an international competition, will be in residence at the Montalvo Art Center, and will work with San José State University CADRE graduate students, City of San José staff, and members of the Climate Clock Science and Technology Advisory Council to develop a more detailed response to the project. During the residency and project development phase, the teams will meet remotely via webinar with technical advisors to discuss the unique measurement and scientific challenges that are presented by the project. Team members will also make public presentations of their work during the development period for review and to provoke discussion.” Barbara Goldstein (written response to this survey)

Collaboration

What were the disciplinary contributors to the project? What model of research / development was followed? What were factors leading to success / problems?

This project will bring together media artists, climatologists, psychologists, physicists, statisticians, linguists, anthropologists, programmers, network engineers, industrial designers, and many more.

“The fields of expertise of the members of the Science and Technology Advisory Council and our artist teams best represent the disciplines we expect to engage with. As the project is in its early development stages it is premature to predict success or problems, but we are very much interested in developing a system for collaboration as the first Climate Clock is taken from concept to design to reality, and sharing that collaborative model with others to realize the Climate Clock Initiative’s global ambitions.” Barbara Goldstein (written response to this survey)

The Climate Clock Initiative Leadership Team includes

Joel Slayton, ZERO1, CADRE & FUSE, San José State University

Kuniko Vroman, FUSE, San José State University

Lisa Scoffield, San José State University

Barbara Goldstein, City of San José

Walter Rask, San José Redevelopment Agency

Erika Justis, 1stACT Silicon Valley

Steve Dietz, ZERO1

Gordon Knox, Stanford Humanities Lab

Kelly Sicat, Montalvo Arts Center

Seth Fearey, Connected Communities

Other collaborator and agencies who are involved include:

Finalist Artist Teams:

Greenmeme: Freya Bardell, Brent Bucknum and Brian Howe

Usman Haque, Robert Davis and Caroline Lewis

Amorphic Robot Works: Chico MacMurtrie, Geo Homsy, Bill Washabaugh and Gideon Shapiro

Science and Technology Advisory Council:

Joel Birnbaum, Retired VP and Director, HP Laboratories

Marcia McNutt, President & CEO, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

Steven Bishop, Global Lead, Design for Sustainability,

IDEO Jay Warrior, Manager, Distributed Systems Research, Agilent Technologies

Deborah Estrin, Director, Center for Embedded Network Sensing Network Autonomy

Jeff Burke, Exec. Dir., UCLA Center for Research in Engineering,

Bette Otto-Bliesner, Senior Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Carrie Armel, Research Associate Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency

Organizations:

  • FUSE: _ CADRE/Montalvo Artist Research Residency Initiative, a partnership between the CADRE Laboratory for New Media at San José State University and the Montalvo Arts Center
  • The City of San José Public Art Program
  • San José Redevelopment Agency
  • ZER01
  • San José State University
  • 1stACT Silicon Valley
  • Connected Communities

Values

What were the outcomes of the project? How were these disseminated to outside stakeholders? What models of value are implied by this project? What was the Impact of the work?

The Climate Clock team site the following as the predicted outcomes for the project:

  1. Designs for the first Climate Clock in San José, as well as a series of programs around the Climate Clock.
  2. Those who cannot visit San José will be able to engage with the initiative on the web as the project develops.
  3. A Climate Clock Initiative web site will track the evolution of the projects from concept inception through he competitive selection phase to the design specification and implementation phase.
  4. The web site will serve as a public interface to the project allowing for interpretive viewing and interaction with artist driven research, explorations, experimentations and design.
  5. TBD, the hope is to capitalize on the current attention Climate Change is getting at the moment and turn that into a work that motivates lasting and sustained behavioural change around Climate Change.

Links and Resources

http://sj-climateclock.org/