Andrea Polli @ UCI Beall Center
The Beall Center for Art and Technology presents:
“Atmospherics/Weather Works” by Andrea Polli
Opening reception: January 4, 2007; 6:30 – 9:00pm
Exhibition Dates: January 5 - March 17
“It’s not about the data, it’s about the phenomena” – Andrea Polli
Atmospherics/Weather Works is an exhibition of several systems for understanding weather and climate patterns through sound. The results are sometimes ambient, sometimes turbulent and always evocative compositions that allow listeners to experience geographically scaled events on a human scale and gain a deeper understanding of the more unpredictable and complex rhythms and melodies of nature.
Polli's combination of new media and scientific research, informs her work with powerful presentations of many of the dangers to our environment, global warming, the ocean's influence on whether and pollution. Polli's work, has explored emerging technologies, written and developed custom and open source software, and worked with scientists from various disciplines to explore new aesthetic forms. In many of the works the sounds and the images are reacting to each other. She creates sonic installation of haunting sounds and visuals that create a sense of time and interaction.