I Made This video projection for the ‘Bring Your Own Beamer’ (BYOB http://bringyourownbeamer.com) event at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp.
A near-live image of the Sun is projected onto the ceiling or a wall, juxtaposed with satellite images of regions on Earth that are negatively affected by unequally harnessed solar energy, leading to social injustice, geopolitical conflicts, and violence. It’s this duality of, at least in human terms, the eternal existence of the sun versus the fleeting nature of human culture such as conflicts, war, migration, and suffering. As a form of modern colonization, communities living around the boundaries of arid and more sustainable land are sometimes displaced or discriminated against. Other climate factors further accelerate changes in landscape such as the melting of the ice caps around the Northern Hemisphere, opening up potential trade and access routes to valuable resources like oil and gas, resulting in geopolitical conflicts about ownership.
I’ve added testimonies to illustrate how these changes affect people’s lives at a personal level.
Tools used:
NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory Data : https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/
(See also image below)
Sentinel-Hub : https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/
QGIS : https://qgis.org/
Processing : https://processing.org/
Credits and Sources:
Midnight Sun : https://www.midnightsunmag.ca
International Rescue Committee : https://www.rescue.org/
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum : https://www.ushmm.org/
The Guardian : https://www.theguardian.com
Al Jazeera : https://www.aljazeera.com
The Wire/ Science : https://science.thewire.in
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) mission, launched on February 11, 2010, aims to understand the Sun’s influence on Earth by studying the solar atmosphere across multiple spectral bands. The image of the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) seen below, provides detailed observations of the Sun’s interior and magnetic fields in visible light (617.3 nm), and is updated every 15 minutes.
