Dave and Fania Everitt, with Alice Tuppen-Corps
This online artwork extracts amd refreshes phrases from hundreds of individual diary entries, finding words that match the intensity of live space weather data, measured from 0-9.
For the initial stages of Alice’s TETTT project, 22 daily “prompts” in the form of keywords and phrases encouraged participants to write regular accounts of their life experience. The text on the screen is continually refreshed from over 500 of these intimate accounts and recollections.
The central live “space weather” panel shows the intensity of geomagnetic activity affecting Earth’s magnetic field: the Kp index. This measure of intensity is used in real time to filter and refresh which texts are selected, and to update the image of the Sun.
These are refreshed according to the numerical order of the Chinese mathematical “magic square” of three, known as the Lo-Shu, historically used to lend order to cultural activities.
This connects the impersonality of space weather with the very personal narratives. The central panel—usually allocated to the element “Earth” in the Lo-Shu—displays live space weather, the colour of the rotating sun reflects its current intensity.
- Check the JS comment above
getSpaceData()for simplest approach - Investigate different data for density, speed, temperature
- Redirecting GitHub pages
- Adding
<meta http-equiv=”Permissions-Policy” content=”interest-cohort=()”>(FLoC) to show no interest-based tracking - radial solar-wind flow speed is in the range of 300 km/s to 800 km/s (above 500 is fast)