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Snowing in the Supercomputer

Snowing in the Supercomputer

Unknown Fields

by Kate Davies and Liam Young
Paperback
Publication Date: 04/02/2020

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For Snowing in the Supercomputer Unknown Fields locate the environmental forecasts and data landscapes of the city and travel to Alaska's far north, to visit a territory that sits in the collective imagination as one of the last remaining wildernesses. Unknown Fields spend the winter solstice with climate scientists from around the world who are camped out in the most northern cities on the planet to collect data that is fed into the climate-modelling supercomputers and environmental policies further south. Traditional data visualisations and guilt-laden headlines may no longer be sufficient strategies to encourage the cultural shift now required. In this book Unknown Fields peers inside the supercomputer to find a set of surreal landscapes that sit between tradition and technology, the real and the imagined, the present and the future. They are landscapes given new narratives by native Alaskan authors and generated from the climate data and modelling software of supercomputer scientists. Against these images run panoramas of the supercomputer infrastructure that simulates them and the doomsday statistics that are shouted at us everyday, but that we do our best to ignore.
ISBN:
9781907896880
9781907896880
Category:
The arts
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
04-02-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Architectural Association
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
241.3x165.1mm
Kate Davies

Kate Davies was born and brought up in north-west London. She studied English at Oxford University before becoming a writer and editor of children's books.

She's also a screenwriter, and had a short-lived career as a burlesque dancer that ended when she was booed off stage at a Conservative club while dressed as a bingo ball. Kate lives in east London with her wife. 

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