Ice Core Visualization 아트 인스톨레이션 by Yingri Guan is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 철상 in 순수 예술 및 예술 설치 디자인 Competition Category.
철순수 예술· 2021
Ice Core Visualization 아트 인스톨레이션
by Yingri Guan
Client: ARiceStudio
A' Design Award 철상 Winner in 순수 예술 Category
Verified Award Winner
Verify Award Status for #105575The Design
About Ice Core Visualization 아트 인스톨레이션
아이스 코어 비주얼라이제이션(Ice Core Visualization)은 이산화탄소 농도와 지구 기후 사이의 관계를 보여주는 예술 설치 작품이다. 이 설치물은 층층이 쌓은 젤 왁스로 채워진 여덟 개의 아크릴 튜브로 제작되었다. 각 튜브는 지름 8인치, 길이 3피트이다. 각각의 왁스 층은 천 년 단위의 평균 데이터를 나타내며, 전체적으로 지난 40만 년의 기간을 담아낸다. 그레이스케일 배색은 이산화탄소의 변화를 보여준다. 두 번째 배색은 온도 변화를 나타내기 위해 열은 붉은색으로, 한기는 파란색으로 표현한다.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 철상
Ice Core Visualization 아트 인스톨레이션, 이 작품은 A' Design Award 철상 수상작으로, 잘 디자인된 창작물에 기대되는 전문적·산업적 요건을 충족하는 좋은 디자인에 수여되는 권위 있는 인정입니다. 철상 수상작은 창작자의 뛰어난 기술, 높은 전문성, 전문가다운 이해, 창의적 역량을 보여 줍니다. Ice Core Visualization 아트 인스톨레이션, 이 작품은 높이 평가받고 감탄과 사랑을 받는 창작물로서 실용적이고 혁신적일 것으로 기대됩니다. 이 철상 수상 디자인은 업계 모범 사례를 통합하며 노하우와 재능으로 연결된 유능한 기술적 특성을 갖추고 있습니다. Ice Core Visualization 아트 인스톨레이션, 이 작품은 철저함으로 존중받으며 삶의 질을 개선하여 세상을 더 나은 곳으로 만들도록 디자인되었습니다.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Ice Core brings together the aesthetics of layers of ice with the immense amount of weather information core samples contain. It features eight acrylic tubes filled with layered gel wax, with each layer denoting the average data contained within a thousand-year sample.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Each ice core tube is 8 inches in diameter and 3 feet in length
- Tags
- Ice Core, Art, Installation, Visualizations, Generative
- Production Technology
- First the data set is obtained from NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Below shows the data set used in diagram format based on the Vostok Petit data. Carbon dioxide in comparison of global temperature variation is chosen. Generally carbon dioxide production is related to burning of carbon and other energy consumption activities. While global warming is closely related to the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere especially carbon dioxide level.
- Design Challenge
- I was brainstorming along the line of creating something semi-transparent, which lends close resemblance to original ice cores while giving the flexibility of making it layer by layer. Therefore, the process of making wax candles came in handy. Hence, I melted layers of wax with the measured amount of dye is poured into the tube layer by layer. I divided the acrylic tube into four sections, and each tube represents a hundred thousand years. Then I further divided each tube into a hundred layers. Therefore each layer of the wax represents average data over a thousand years.
- Research
- A greyscale color scheme depicts the carbon dioxide variation over the last four hundred thousand years. In comparison, a color scheme based on the weather map describes temperature variations. Red is associated with heat; blue indicates freezing temperature. The goal to show temperature variation. When four tubes are displayed side by side, we can see that the variation corresponds. If more carbon dioxide is present in the global environment, the higher the temperature. Inversely, the lighter content indicates a lower carbon dioxide production and therefore followed by a generally colder climate.
- Inspiration
- Ice cores are long and condensed tubes that are extracted from the extremely cold areas where snow fell and accumulated over the years with minimal melting and eventually compressed to ice sheets. The layers of snow contain rich information about our global climate. For example, dust, ash, pollen, bubbles of atmospheric gas and radioactive substances. This project is particularly concerned with carbon dioxide content in the gaseous bubbles trapped inside each layer of ice.
- Project Duration
- Project started in Buffalo since 2012 and complete in San Francisco Bay Area by 2018
- Operation Flow
- A very interesting aspect of this making is the tactility of the whole process. I wanted the audience to have a direct correlation to what they see in front of them and appreciate the beauty of the ice core as I have been. Also, it is observed that there are four general cycles in terms of variation of the global climate. Currently, according to the trend, we are moving towards the time period that temperature is predicted to go up. Therefore it lends question to that if global warming is a manmade phenomenon or it is part of the global climate change cycle.
- Team Members
- Yingri Guan
- Image Credits
- Photographer Yingri Guan, Variations, 2014
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