From Green to Red: An interactive environmental protest data art piece

  • Beatie Wolfe

Beatie Wolfe creates a stirring environmental art piece about human impact on the planet, built using 800,000 years of NASA’s climate data. “From Green to Red” (taken from the title of a song Wolfe wrote in 2006 after seeing ‘An Inconvenient Truth') tracks the impact of human behaviour on the planet, creating a stirring visualization of the CO2 concentration in the Earth’s atmosphere, and asks us the question is it too late to turn back? Wolfe’s latest innovation reimagines the music video format (and protest song), taking the audience on a journey through the planet’s timeline. “This piece is about re-presenting data in a way that people can see differently and absorb, using the power of art to make it evocative and relatable,” Wolfe says, “so that people can get a sense of where we are right now”

The Story

Beatie Wolfe creates a stirring environmental art piece about human impact on the planet, built using 800,000 years of historic NASA data. “From Green to Red” (taken from the title of a song Wolfe wrote in 2006 after seeing ‘An Inconvenient Truth') tracks the impact of human behaviour on the planet, creating a stirring visualization of the CO2 concentration in the Earth’s atmosphere, and asks us the question is it too late to turn back? Wolfe’s latest innovation reimagines the music video format (and protest song), taking the audience on a journey through the planet’s timeline - more (+)

The Back Story

Beatie was giving a talk about her innovations at JPL and afterward, one of NASA's chief engineers shared this graph with Beatie. Upon seeing the graph, and experiencing a similar jolt as she did first watching An Inconvenient Truth, Beatie wanted to take the data and transform it into something everyone could absorb

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