CYCLONE.SOC

Corby, T. 2006. CYCLONE.SOC. Ars Electronica Centre, Linz 05 - 11 Sep 2006

CreatorsCorby, T.
Description

By mapping social debris from Internet chat rooms to real-time weather data, Corby and Baily’s immersive, interactive, digital

installation Cyclone.soc developed suggestive links between extreme belief systems and the effects of global warming. Selected

for Ars Electronica, Linz where it won a festival prize. Cyclone.soc brings together real-time images of severe conditions bought about by global warming with extremist political and

religious opinions posted in Internet chat rooms. It exists as an immersive, interactive environment which it is possible to walk

into, giving the overall effect of being caught within emerging storm fronts, albeit consisting of the conversational churn and

eddy of arguments and counter-arguments that are occurring live on the Internet. The project aims to broker subtle discourses

that focus on the interconnectedness of technology and its effects in the material world, developing a suggestive link between

belief systems and their potential wider material impacts.

Cyclone.soc is innovatory in bringing scientific visualisation techniques to bear on complex social and environmental conditions,

thereby producing novel aesthetic forms that draw upon both critical art and scientific practices in ways rarely seen in the digital

arts.

International recognition of this work comes through a jury award (honorary mention alongside 14 other artists) at Prix Ars

Electronica 2006, (Ars Electronica is the highest profile international digital art festival); a prize at the Japanese Media Art

Festival, March 2007, (alongside 7 other artists in the Internet division). Cyclone.soc was also exhibited at ‘Connecting Worlds’

at ICC InterCommunication Centre, Tokyo, alongside Fischli & Weiss, Dennis Oppenheim and Usman Haque. An AHRC

Research Leave award (£22,000) supported production.

Reviews include: InterCommunication (Japan), Artist’s Newsletter (UK). The project is also featured in The Fundamentals of

Digital Art by Richard Colson (ISBN 978-2940373581).

Cyclone.soc consists of bespoke software written in C++, publicly available weather data sets (involving research into scientific

visualisation processes) and postings taken from internet chat rooms. Production and concept development was equally shared

with Gavin Baily.

Year2006
Web address (URL)http://www.reconnoitre.net/cyclone/cyclone.html

Related outputs

Numbers/Data: A Roundtable
Connor, S., Corby, T., Nafus, D., Hawes, H., Smith, M. and Teasley, S. 2018. Numbers/Data: A Roundtable. Journal of Visual Culture. 16 (3), pp. 355-385. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470412917742083

Minima-Maxima
Corby, T. and Baily, G. 2017. Minima-Maxima. London Tom Corby.

CODEX: mapping co-created data for speculative geographies
Corby, T., Baily, G. and Sabbata, S 2017. CODEX: mapping co-created data for speculative geographies. Leonardo. 50 (1), pp. 70-71. https://doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_01347

Northern Polar Studies
Corby, T. and Baily, G. 2016. Northern Polar Studies. 9656w.

CODEX (Terra Incognita)
Corby, T. and Baily, G. 2016. CODEX (Terra Incognita). Various

I Stood Up: Social Design in Practice
Corby, T., Williams, D, Sheth, V and Dhar, V 2016. I Stood Up: Social Design in Practice. Art and Design Review. 4 (2), pp. 30-36. https://doi.org/10.4236/adr.2016.42005

Blood and Bones
Corby, T. 2014. Blood and Bones. Tom Corby.

I stood up (2015)
Corby, T. and Williams, D. Forthcoming. I stood up (2015). London/New Delhi/Ahmedabad

Visualizing the news: mutant barcodes and geographies of conflict
Corby, T. 2014. Visualizing the news: mutant barcodes and geographies of conflict. Leonardo: Art Science and Technology. 47 (1), pp. 84-85. https://doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_00713

The Southern Ocean Studies
Corby, T., Baily, G. and Mackenzie, J. 2011. The Southern Ocean Studies. Istanbul, Turkey 14 - 21 Sep 2011

DataArt
Corby, T. and Baily, G. 2011. DataArt. Istanbul, Turkey 14 - 21 Sep 2011

Systemness: towards a data aesthetics of climate change
Corby, T. 2011. Systemness: towards a data aesthetics of climate change. in: Marsching, J.D. and Polli, A. (ed.) Far field: digital culture, climate change and the Poles Intellect. pp. 237-250

Landscapes of feeling arenas of action: information visualisation as art practice
Corby, T. 2008. Landscapes of feeling arenas of action: information visualisation as art practice. Leonardo: Art Science and Technology. 41 (5), pp. 460-467. https://doi.org/10.1162/leon.2008.41.5.460

Visualization of scientific arts and some examples of applications
Fujisawa, N., Brown, K., Nakayama, Y., Hyatt, J. and Corby, T. 2008. Visualization of scientific arts and some examples of applications. Journal of Visualization. 11 (4), pp. 387-394.

Cyclone.soc: an interactive artwork visualizing Internet newsgroup postings as cyclonic weather conditions
Corby, T. and Baily, G. 2007. Cyclone.soc: an interactive artwork visualizing Internet newsgroup postings as cyclonic weather conditions. Journal of Visualization. 10 (4), p. 339.

CYCLONE.SOC
Corby, T. and Baily, G. 2007. CYCLONE.SOC. Oi Futuro Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 13 Aug 2007

Information aesthetics: data visualisation as art
Corby, T. 2007. Information aesthetics: data visualisation as art. The Ninth International Symposium on Fluid Control, Measurement and Visualization (FLUCOME 2007). University of Florida, Tallahassee, Florida, USA 16 - 19 Sep 2007

Reconnoitre (release 2)
Corby, T. and Baily, G. 2005. Reconnoitre (release 2). NTT Inter-Communication Center [ICC] Tokyo 21 Feb - 21 Mar 2005

Mesh
Corby, T. and Baily, G. 2005. Mesh. Media art festival, São Paulo Sep 2005

System poetics and software refuseniks
Corby, T. 2005. System poetics and software refuseniks. in: Corby, T. (ed.) Network art: practices and positions London, UK Routledge.

Introduction
Corby, T. 2005. Introduction. in: Corby, T. (ed.) Network art: practices and positions London, UK Routledge.

Gameboy UltraF_uk
Corby, T., Barreto, R. and Perissinotto, P. 2004. Gameboy UltraF_uk. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin 05 Feb - 24 Feb 2002

Loop_Reprise
Corby, T. 2002. Loop_Reprise. The Machida Museum of Arts, Tokyo 25 Nov 2001 - 25 Jan 2002

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