new_weather_group
new_weather_group
 
Projects: The Newsstand
 
 
P.S.1 MOMA - emergency room exhibit - march 2007
made in collaboration with Soren Dahlgard
Today’s news:The pattern of the weather in New York has gone through severe changes in recent years, but this last week has been extremely volatile.  Temperatures fluctuated 40 degrees Fahrenheit in 2 days. Inhabitants operated in spring outfits, but 36 hours later residents struggled against arctic conditions. The erratic weather culminated yesterday with a snow storm that paralyzed large areas of city. Parts of New York City grinded to a halt as air traffic, urban transit and business networks froze.
Weather Changes:Weather is no longer a daily condition, we may be in a new planetary era.  The notion of global warming haunts every world citizen, regularly the focus of activist movements and political debates around the world.  The scale of the situation solidified at the recent UN Convention in Paris.  A bleak and powerful assessment of the planet’s future was discussed by the leading international network of climate change scientists.  The grim conclusions were unprecedented and unequivocal: global warming is real, and human activity is the main driver.  Human activity is the major cause of rising climatic temperatures since 1950.
The Media:Current events trickle through media machines that provide the public manufactured information that people rely on to understand their surroundings and the larger global context. Media controls people’s perception of reality, but the media also reacts to the public’s desires.  We regularly use it to justification of an argument, of something we already believe.