Cyclone.soc - Gavin Baily & Tom Corby

Cyclone.soc is a projected installation that brings together two contemporary phenomena: severe weather and the polarised nature of debate that occurs in some online newsgroup forums. The project maps live conversation from political and religious newsgroups onto the isobars of hurricanes and the complex structure of the weather is used to visualise the churn and eddies of newsgroup debate.

Gavin Baily’s work has focused on developing conjunctions of software-based visualisation and the data traces of social processes. Tom Corby’s research is concerned with challenging received assumptions about the role of software/computer code as a platform for 'productivity' and 'functionality'.

Recent exhibitions include Simplicity: Ars Electronica 2006, Linz, Austria,
Art meets media: Adventures in Perception at NTT Inter-Communication
Center (ICC), Tokyo and File media art festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Venue: CityLab, 4-5 Dalton Square, Lancaster LA1 4PP, 01524 582114

Dates: 29 September – 21 October

12 - 5 pm, Mon – Sat

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