Mihika Bansal-Looking Outwards-02

One of the things that I am passionate about is climate change. So seeing artists that focus on these prevalent issues as the focus of their work is inspiring for me. An artist that I am particularly interested in is Mitchell Whitelaw. He has multiple pieces in which the recent climate crisis is his inspiration.

One piece that I find to be particularly interesting is his climate coasters. These coasters take data from the ANU climate change institute, and will change based on location and time in order to create a new coaster that represents that new data. The app also uses data that ranges from 1991 to 2017, which shows how much it has changed and grown. This project is also an interesting example of data visualization, another field that I am really interested in pursuing.

Mitchell was the primary artist of this work and it was completed in May of 2018.

Link to work: https://gravitron.com.au/climatecoaster/