Living Data:
How animation can bring scientific data to life
DATA: Information output by a sensing device or organ that includes both useful and irrelevant or redundant information and must be processed to be meaningful. Ref. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/data
ANIMATION: The act, process, or result of imparting life, interest, spirit, motion, or activity. Ref. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/animation. Animation is the art of change and transformation.
Animation can be used to give new meanings to data by relating them to lived experience.
A scientist explains what he means by modelling. He challenges me to "make a scientific model attractive to people through art". I start on this animation as a joke, a play on words. I will be an artist's model in a scientist's model of the southern oceans. But seriously, the animation visualises how I see myself as one of many life forms in a global system. What do you see?
Lisa Roberts
Voice: Andrew Constable
Data: Australian Antarctic Division
Music: Sophie Green
Production assistance: Ken Wilson
Animation/model: Lisa Roberts
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