Most Blue Skies

Most Blue Skies I + II is a computer generated installation that attempts to find “the bluest skies” in the world. The project measures the passage of light through particulate matter in the atmosphere, and calculates the exact colours of the sky at billions of places on earth. Using a complex system of satellite data acquisition and atmospheric simulations, the project continuously calculates the place on earth that has the bluest sky and visualises the best possible approximation to that colour, as well as the name of the place where you should stand to see that sky. Most Blue Skies I + II combine atmospheric research, environmental monitoring and sensing technologies with the romantic history of the blue sky and it’s fragile optimism, and addresses our changing relationship to the sky space as the subject for scientific and symbolic representation.

Project Team

 

Core Team

Lise Autogena - Artist

Joshua Portway - Artist programmer

Tom Riley - Programming

 

Advisors

Chris Gueymard - SMARTS atmospheric radiative transfer model

Supported by

The Alexandra Instittute

The Danish State Workshops

CAVI- Aarhus University,

DFDS Seaways

Projection Design

DAF - Denmark, Alexandra Institute, Denmark

Space and Atmospheric Physics at Imperial College

UK Meteorolgical Office

The UCL Colour and Vision research laboratory

NASA

The Physical National Renewable Energy Laboratory, US

The Danish Film School

Zentropa.

Funded by

Arts Council UK

Arts Council of Denmark

The Danish Art Foundation

The Gulbenkian Foundation

NESTA

Tekne Productions

Exhibitions

2006

The International Gwangju Biennale

South Korea

2009

Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Centre. Commissioned for the COP-15 UN Climate Summit. Denmark

Rethink Climate

2010

Stockholm, Sweden

Tensta Kunsthalle

2011

The Arts Catalyst, London, UK

Data Landscapes

2012

Domaine de Chamarande, Paris, France

‘Salons’ - Convivialité, écologie et Vie Pratique’

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