Created by EcoArtTech, a digital environmental art platform, Eclipse represents air quality in national parks from data obtained from nearby cities. In a process known as data-scraping, Eclipse searches for images tagged with the park's name from an image sharing database and then pulls real-time AQI (Air Quality Index) data from airnow.gov for the designated region. Eclipse then corrupts the photograph based on the levels of particulate matter observed by the website. The more air pollution, the more corrupt the new image will be.
This is the kind of New Media art that captures my attention the most. I love learning about anything to do with the environment and raising awareness to protect it. I am also fascinated by how artists can hijack data to make a statement about our high-tech lives. This is a perfect fusion of the two concepts.
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