I-Weather as Deep Space Public Lighting

By fabric | ch

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fabric | ch will present  a new work entitled I-Weather as Deep Space Public Lighting during the 2010 01SJ Biennial in San Jose (San Francisco Bay Area, CA, September 4-19, 2010).

Curated by Steve Dietz and assistant curator Jaime Austin, the 2010 01SJ Biennial will develop a full range of radical exhibitions in the Bay Area around this year's biennial theme, Build you own world. Our installation will be part of San Jose / South Hall exhibit: Out of the Garage into the World, which title takes its inspiration from the nearly mythological times of the early California's Silicon Valley, when young scientists supposedly started their future world scale business in their home's garage or backyard.

Curator Steve Dietz about this year's biennial: "Build Your Own World:  The future is not just about what’s next. It’s also about what we can build to ensure that what’s next matters. How can we, as resourceful, innovative, and knowledgeable local and global citizens build and participate in a desirable future in the face of global climate change, economic meltdown, political instability, and cultural divisiveness?"

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I-Weather as Deep Space Public Lighting:

I-Weather as Deep Space Public Lighting, yellow-orange phase.

I-Weather as Deep Space Public Lighting, cyan-blue phase.

I-Weather as Deep Space Public Lighting, full gradient and time rainbow.

In 2001, architect Philippe Rahm and fabric | ch jointly set up I-Weather, an open source artificial climate based on human metabolism, circadian rhythms and on the medical knowledge of the time about light therapy and chronotherapy. I-Weather.org intended to allow the growing number of de-territorialized locations and people to synchronize their atmosphere and metabolism with this Internet distributed climate: a parallel day of 25 hours, that diffused its colored “daylight” in any physical or digital space connected to the I-Weather’s server.

In 2008, NASA made an announcement about a first successful communication with a 20 million miles distant spacecraft on the Deep Space Internet, the model for a forthcoming interplanetary Internet.

Late in 2009, the team upgraded I-Weather to a new version, as scientific knowledge of biological rhythms has evolved, demonstrating that melatonin regulation is enhanced by using a minimum wavelength of 460nm (blue) and a maximum wavelength of 597nm (orange) rather than between 385nm (deep purple) and 509 nm (green). Actually, blue light suppresses the diffusion of melatonin in the body, while orange light allows performing actions without altering the body clock.

In summer 2010, fabric | ch will set up a project called I-Weather as Deep Space Public Lighting, during the 01SJ Biennial in South Hall. It will propose a critical use of I-Weather as a model for a metabolic public lighting source, distributed and synchronized through an imaginary Deep Space Internet into the confined and conditioned environments of space exploration vehicles or into speculative public spaces of “distant colonies”.

It will be question of public space, public data, public technology and artificial climate.

fabric | ch, May 2010

I-Weather as Deep Space Public Lighting

fabric | ch

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Exhibition:

Build Your Own World

2010 01SJ Biennial

September 4-19, 2010

San Jose, CA

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Workshop:

I-Weather: open source artificial climate (how to)

Christian Babski, Patrick Keller

2-4 pm, September 16, 2010

San Jose, CA

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Conference:

Deep Space, Public Space, I-Weather as Public Climate & Technology

Patrick Keller

1-2.30 pm, September 19, 2010

San Jose, CA

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Project, conception and programmation: fabric | ch

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Ligths: 3B Lighting

Structure: Stages Unlimited

On site supervision: G. Craig Hobbs

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Curatorship: Steve Dietz, Jaime Austin

Produced by Zer01

I-Weather as Deep Space Public Lighting has been produced with the support of swissnex San Francisco and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.  It is a 2010 01SJ Biennial creation by fabric | ch.

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Like for previous exhibitions, new posts will follow while (and after) we set up the work in San Francisco.