Marta Natalia Pienkosz, The Vicissitudes of Weather

The Vicissitudes of the Weather

Marta Natalia Pienkosz

These illustrations convey the abstract sense of space involved in weather patterns. Drawing on real-time weather data from specific locations, the seemingly aleatory, shifting nature of weather is explored. The program built in TouchDesigner sends HTTP requests to the OpenWeather server, retrieves data, and generates ever changing digital graphics. In this process, one type of digital information, weather data corresponding to temperature, cloud cover and weather conditions such as rain, fog, or clear skies, is being transcoded into a set of parameters affecting the final appearance of the visual. This process translates the abstract, random weather patterns into location-specific representations of the condition of our personal surroundings.