Clockwise from top left: stills from videos by Mary Mattingly, Thomson & Craighead, Peter Eramian and Lisa Young

If this is your first visit to New Climates, welcome to the site. If you are a frequenter or subscriber, then you’ve probably been observing the exhibition’s evolution over the past several weeks, following the start of its continuous, three-month-long launch. Since late February, seven remarkable projects have been created for and released on New Climates, each by a different artist (or artists) addressing the theme of global climate change within the context of our networked culture. An additional seven new projects are scheduled to open by May 15.

Thomson & Craighead reconfigure our preconceptions about the timeline of climate change with a “foreshadowing” of London’s future. Line of 32, by Joe Milutis, offers a personal meditation on climate change, suggesting that it is truly in the eye of the beholder. Peter Eramian has created a structurally paradoxical visual rendering of a sunrise, revealing the technologies that mediate our access to the natural landscape. Andrea Polli programmed digital “roadside gardens” that harness live data streams, visualizing them as organic structures and monitors of air quality. Lisa Young’s peacefully hypnotic Calendar is a diligent attempt to render a portrait of our constantly shifting atmosphere. Pangaea Ultima, by Mary Mattingly, constructs a fantastical terrain in order to question the reconfigurations—both geological and mental—that will occur in the future as a result of climate change, as well as the necessity of adaptation for surviving these shifts. Glacial Lakes, Hyacinths, by Trumbull & Simon, ponders how natural or “climate time” is both utterly incomprehensible and has been manipulated to fit our temporal conventions.

You are invited and encouraged to leave your comments about any of these projects, or the exhibition in general, and join the discussion.

New works by the following artists are forthcoming: Michael Alstad, Jane D. Marsching, Gail Wight, Anthony Discenza, Futurefarmers, Brooke Singer, Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir. In addition, Ben Engebreth and Michael Mandiberg will provide bloggable versions of existing works.

For more information on this exhibition, including a video/text introduction, bios of the contributing artists and essays, please see the “About” section of the sidebar.

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Enjoy the weather.

– Shane Brennan