2006
A collaboration with Iñigo Manglano Ovalle and Mark Hereld.
7680 × 1024 resolution Continuous real-time digital output; single channel,
10-projection screens; weather transmitter with temperature, barometric,
wind speed and direction instrumentation; and 7 channel sound.
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
This large scale digital projection uses live weather information taken from a weathervane fixed
to the front of the Art Center to determine the motion and pattern of the composition. Random
Sky is a digital program that generates random calculations in real-time. Its performance
maintains a degree of unpredictability informed by external data culled from the weather
instruments located on the exterior of the art center. Projected as oscillating vertical blue and
white bands across the center’s glass façade Random Sky results in tendencies rather than
wholly predetermined narratives. The project is a semi-permanent installation literally wired in
the building’s physical as well as digital infrastructure. It is meant to reside within and without
the architecture of the center and to be called upon at any moment.
“Weather writes, erases, and rewrites itself upon the sky with the fluidity of language; it is with
language that we have sought throughout history to apprehend it.”
—Richard Hamblyn, The Invention of Clouds,
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001