Robotic, Light Painting, Coding and Climate Change

An on-going collaborative art project around climate change with three artists :

Mark Parsons is a multidisciplinary artist and designer who works with sculpture, materials, communities and light. He is director of the Consortium for Research & Robotics, hosted by Pratt Institute in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Chanette Manso is a light artist who works by crafting scenes, moving light, and taking long exposure photographs. She has deep expertise in composing scenes with light and photography, extending her ideas working with technologies such as AR/VR, and collaborating with varied creative practitioners on projects.

Andrew McWilliams is an artist & technologist who creates installation artworks with algorithms, media, projections and light. His recent work looks at issues of climate change. He is also a co-founder of a climate advocacy group for the tech industry.

Initial, but evolving idea : 

An experimental series of photographic images created using long-exposure photography along with a programmable 15 foot industrial robot arm mounted with a torch. The arm is programmed to trace the outline of data points, creating an exposure on the camera which reflects accurate data visualization. The room around the robot can be prepared with materials, people, poses to reinforce the robotic light dataviz imagery.

Making of videos.