A landscape built from carbon dioxide, made in several versions.
Historical. NOAA records of atmospheric CO₂ become a source of error in photographs: a picture from 1912 is distorted in proportion to the 284.76 parts per million in the air that year, and a present-day landscape is pushed through every value from the year 1000 to today's readings above 410 ppm.
Derivas. Walks with a sensor that reads CO₂ in real time. In Mexico City, the readings and the soundscape built a multichannel installation whose image and sound distort with the CO₂ level. In Catalonia, a fixed camera recorded two hours of sunrise in Foixa alongside its CO₂ data, and a thirty-minute walk in Barcelona became a single image in which every pixel is replaced by a CO₂ value. In New York, an hour-long drift through the Bronx and Manhattan was condensed into one generative image of colour, data and time.
Developed with the support of EXPERIMENTA CDMX 2019 at the Centro de Cultura Digital, with Medialab Prado and the Experimenta Distrito network of citizen laboratories. With thanks to Felipe Rebolledo, María Torres and Carles Tardio Pi. Photography and video: Felipe Rebolledo.
