Thomson & Craighead: Weather Gauge

Thomson & Craighead, still from Weather Gauge, networked installation, 2005.

© Thomson & Craighead

Weather Gauge (see also Color Plate B No. 1) presents in a gallery the simultaneous display of numerical weather data from over 150 countries, forming an array of hypnotic animated data that references a huge global spread of live information. Each piece of weather data rotates between centigrade, Fahrenheit, local time and city of origin, so that when presented in a large array, the whole field of information rhythmically evolves, offering viewers an unusual extended sense of context beyond the physical location of the work.