LookingOutwards-09

Nathalie Miebach is an artist and musician who translates scientific data related to meteorology, ecology, and oceanography into sculptures and music scores. Her project, The Sandy Rides, is a woven sculpture. The project is inspired by Hurricane Sandy and the data from the storm. This data is used to build the amusement park rides in the sculpture. The project questions what living along the coast might look like in the future with climate change and how an amusement park ride might adapt to these new conditions. Miebach constructed a series of these sculptures that take influence from various ride destroyed during the storm. These sculptures are really interesting from an architectural perspective on how they build using data. While they use data, which can seem very methodical, they have a chaotic nature to them. They describe the storm in a visual and mathematical way.