UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles - Users - UCLA

Abstract
A Landscape of Events
The acceleration of data collection and geographic technologies has
changed the physical and virtual boundaries of nature, perceptions of
geometry, geopolitical paradigms, and ecological issues. Perception now
extends beyond our immediate physical and phenomenological
experiences of space. Historically, in many cultures around the world, the
concept of landscape implied a process of distancing nature from a
perceiving human subject, and has been conflated with countless
predetermined cultural, social, and political meanings. What, then, does
such a notion of distancing mean within a contemporary urban context
and new technologies This project explores landscapes within a
contemporary art/urban context and interrogates the physical and
emotional aspects of our current engagement with technologies.
A Landscape of Events is a kinetic data visualization that simultaneously
objectifies nature, subjectivizes landscape, and visualizes natural
phenomena. This project employs (near) real-time data from natural
events that resist visual recognition and cannot be experienced in everyday
spaces. This project investigates different interpretations of ocean wind
and suggests the evocation of interaction with this indeterminate space.
This project utilizes data, physical objects, and space to visualize the
experience of natural phenomena and experiment in creating a subjective
scene. A Landscape of Events is moments that exist somewhere in the
physical realm and encourage viewers to question their sense of their
surroundings in order to counter the pervasive atmosphere of passivity in
contemporary urban life.
J.KIM_A LANDSCAPE OF EVENTS 6