Musician and artist Beatie Wolfe has created an interactive video installation depicting rising carbon levels in the atmosphere.
Called From Green to Red, the video acts as a soundtrack to a Beatie Wolfe song of the same name that is about climate change. The project aims to "take intangible data and make it something that people can relate to," Wolfe told Dezeen.
Top: From Green to Red is an interactive installation by Beatie Wolfe. Above: a still from the video
Viewers of the installation can interact with data tracking atmospheric carbon levels over the last 800,000 years. The data is displayed in a video projection showing a stream of digital threads representing a"woven timeline of our planet," according to Wolfe.
The threads gradually turn from green to red before suddenly unravelling, symbolising the way recent greenhouse-gas emissions are driving climate change. The video was previewed exclusively on Dezeen last year as part of Virtual Design Festival. The interactive version allows visitors to reveal climate data along the timelines by moving their hands in front of the projection.
Wolfe wrote the song From Green To Red in 2006 immediately after watching An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary directed by Davis Guggenheim about former United States vice president Al Gore's climate-change campaign.
Beatie Wolfe is a musician and artist. Photo: Ross Harris
"I was just so horrified," said Wolfe, who was 17 at the time. "I just couldn't ...