When I image the earth, I imagine another

2021-11-02
Open-weather is a feminist experiment in imaging and imagining the earth and its weather systems using DIY community tools led by Sophie Dyer and Sasha Engelmann.
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What would it mean to collectively image, and in doing so, reimagine the planet? To see its details and patterns from multiple perspectives and many situated positions? If we could each take a photo of our home from space, could we build a patchwork, an impossible view, another whole earth?

On the first day of the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, a network of people operating DIY satellite ground stations around the world will capture a collective snapshot of the Earth and its weather systems: a ‘nowcast’ for an undecided future. Tuning into transmissions from three orbiting National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellites, members of the network will collect imagery and submit field notes from their geographical locations. Combined, these contributions will generate a polyperspectival (from many angles) image of the earth. Led by open-weather (Sophie Dyer and Sasha Engelmann) with Rectangle (Lizzie Malcolm and Daniel Powers), the artwork is a feminist experiment in imaging and reimagining the planet in an era of climate crisis.

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Open-weather is a feminist experiment in imaging and imagining the earth and its weather systems using DIY community tools led by Sophie Dyer and Sasha Engelmann.
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Suggested Citation:

open-weather (2021) 'When I image the earth, I imagine another', The Photographers’ Gallery: Unthinking Photography. Available at: https://unthinking.photography/commissions/when-i-image-the-earth-i-imagine-another
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