Setting up at Polka Theatre, Wimbledon
I am in the foyer of the much loved Polka Children’s Theatre setting up The Prediction Machine and weather station for their Techtopia festival which...
Preparing for Cambridge Central Library Exhibition
The Prediction Machine and Promises Machine are currently being tested and set up to be exhibited at Cambridge Central Library from Saturday 3rd – Sunday...
The New Observatory at FACT
Some exciting new developments are happening for The Prediction Machine’s return to FACT in Liverpool this summer (2017) as part of The New Observatory Exhibition,...
Tropixel, Ubatuba, Brazil
http://tropixel.ubalab.org/en The Prediction Machine and Performing Data was presented at Tropixel Festival Ceincia Aberta Ubatuba (Open Science), as part of the Mata Atlantica Festival...
Next steps
The exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary is now over after an exciting couple of weeks, showing alongside of the wonderful and enlightening Rights of Nature...
Predictions and Promises in Nottingham
The Prediction Machine is now live at Nottingham Contemporary, there seems to be getting lots of people using it and good feedback. When myself...
Promises and Wishes
As part of the next exhibition – at Nottingham Contemporary – a new companion piece to The Prediction Machine is being developed. This is...
Accessibility Policy and Information
The Prediction Machine and website is being created with accessibility in mind. The machine will develop over several phases and will be adapted as it...
The Prediction Machine at Pilkington Library
Photos by Julian Hughes
An artwork informed by climate science
Modelling Climate Change Climate Scientists create models to project how the climate might change in the future, based on what they see happening to...
Final public workshop
The final workshop took place this week and it was sad to end the sessions, particularly as a core group has emerged with the...
Testing the machine
Last week we moved forward with testing and building the machine… The printer is working and is amazingly robust, it is a proper kiosk...
Building The Machine
We are nearly there with the first test of the machine – due to take place next week. Ian Jones (Sherwood Wood) is the...
Visualising Data at August’s workshop
August’s workshop involved visualising the data we collected whilst doing the human sensor activities and creating felt data maps for each weather type that...
Public Workshop – Monday 11th August
The next workshop will continue to look at the weather data being collected from the weather station at the University of Loughborough and how we...
Visions of the future…
I am in the process of putting together images, poetry, prose and films that represent how we perceive the seasons, the weather and climate...
Workshops
Two workshops have now taken place in Loughborough that is bringing together people from Loughborough to explore how we mark, record, understand and respond...
Workshops, hand cranks and lost in data…
I am preparing for the first workshop, which is taking place in Loughborough this evening and looking forward to meeting the people who have...
Come and take part in the workshops
Image copyright of Julian Hughes The Prediction Machine public workshops are starting next week and we would be very excited if you wanted to join...
Thunderbirds, science art and humanity
An image of a Thunderbird 5 poster, designed and made by my Grandfather’s company Jack Rosenthal Toys Ltd. I have just been sent this...
The IPCC Report on Climate Change
Today the IPCC (Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change) released the second in a series of updated reports about climate change. This reports on research...
Nowcasting Launch
On Sunday 23rd March Radar, Loughborough University Arts launched their programme of artworks – Nowcasting – that will link up to the Loughborough University...
The Story of the Machine
Roll Up Roll Up… to see plans for The Prediction Machine, a new invention to track moments of climate change that will be revealed...
modelling the machine
I am in the process of building a model of the machine to work out scale, accessibility and design. This will be presented at...
Nowcasting Launch – Sunday 23rd March
The Prediction Machine has been commissioned as part of the Nowcasting programme at Radar, Loughborough University. To launch this event I will be presenting...
Visiting Loughborough University
Yesterday Matt Little (who is an engineer collaborating with me on the project) and I did a site visit, with Jo Mardell from Radar...
Sketching the Machine
Early sketches of climate based machine arcade machines based on the old end of the pier Zoltar and Lovetester machines: Sketches of...
Ordnance Survey Workshop
This Wednesday I travelled through the Tube Strike and the floods to get to Southampton for a workshop on mapping at Ordnance Survey. I...
Becoming a doctor
The last two weeks have been busy and quite amazing. Firstly I have had funding agreed by the Arts Council of England for the...
Names have been changed to protect the elephants
Credit: Meme http://www.meme-elephants.org/meme_home.html As a result of my previous work with forests in Brazil and the UK I have been invited to get involved...
Performing Data
Performing data is a concept that has arisen as a response to the ways that the artists bring data ‘centre stage’ within their artworks...
Links to other projects and research
As I conduct my research I will try and bring together works by other artists who use climate data in their work as well...
Background to the project
The Story of The Prediction Machine The Prediction Machine was developed during the Relate (Timestreams) project that took place in 2012, in collaboration with...
Hereinafter called the scientist
hello. I am starting a blog to record how I have become an artist/scientist, the research I will be doing this year and to...
