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The Atmosphere of Climate Change
13 experimental ethnographic short films, 1,700 images, and a corresponding research paper.
2020
An artistic research project overlapping with visual anthropology using AI, media images, imagination, and film to explore the atmosphere constructed around the topic of climate change. The project involved interviews with participants asking them to visualize climate change as a tangible object with a color, form, and texture and to describe their interactions with the object. They were also asked to recount their personal experiences of climate change as well as their encounters with climate change media images.The outcome is a series of 13 experimental ethnographic short films coupling archival footage with interview audio. The films are divided into segments - Experience and Imagination.
To complement the project a neural network was trained on an input set of media images of climate change in order to generate new climate change images where 1,700 new climate change images were generated. The resulting images, as shown in a sample below, demonstrate atmospheric aesthetic similarities in media constructions of climate change. The research paper, The Atmosphere of Climate Change: An Anthropological Study Using Visualization, Imagination, Film, and Artificial Intelligence as Conceptual Tools to Explore the Construction of Atmosphere, is the first research exploration I am aware of creating AI generated images for the purpose of cultural and media studies on the topic of climate change.
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