COMPUTATIONAL OCEAN
2016
Digital 4k , 5.1 surround sound. Duration: 4:30
Digital 4k , 5.1 surround sound. Duration: 4:30
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Exhibited 2016. Dark MOFO "Dark Ocean" Exhibition, IMAS Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania. Curated by Kit Wise. With Jordan Baseman, Keith Deverell, Tace Kelly, Peter Morse, Anya Reading, Kit Wise, Martin Gal.
Computational Ocean is a vision of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.
It includes global ocean data visualisations deriving from the GEBCO dataset, global Sea Surface Height Anomaly (SSHA) and Sea Surface Temperature (SST) datasets, as well as synthetic FFT-based ocean simulations. The Global Ocean is a Ding an sich: a data-based noumenon – or fiction – translated for the human sensorium via instrumentation and software conformation of information. In the GEBCO-WGS’84 (negative) visualisations we catch a glimpse of the inhuman geography of the world; imaginal noesis of ocean-agent perceptrons that inhere this space (umwelt). This transforms into an isometric view of a notional 3D-laser-print crystal structure, as if we can see it from ‘outside.’ A glass sculpture of what we can observe, not of what we can know. Emerging from this via SSHA and SST visualisations are the mountains and valleys of the sea, the deep circumpolar Antarctic convergence: observed data/derived statistics from remote-sensing spectral information. Finally, synthetic FFT ocean simulations portray a romantic view of the mathematical infinite – the Oceanic. A partial observation of a high-dimensional space. There is one ocean. The phenomenon of it. |
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Credits:
Directed & Produced by Peter Morse Visualisation & Audio by Peter Morse Special thanks to: Paul Bourke Ben Raymond |
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2016