June 21, 2009

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June 27, 2009

view of equipment and Manhattan skyline from sp weather station rootop

my anemometer and wind vane

Iwas invited to be a guest interpreter for sp weather station, an interdisciplinary project based in New York, that collects weather data, and organizes weather-related publications, events, and exhibitions, while maintaining a rooftop weather station.

SPWS interpreters work with weather data from one month and their invitation gave me a chance to return to the wind drawings I made in 2006. The SPWS weather station did not collect wind data at a high enough frequency to enable me to produce drawings with enough detail so I set up my own equipment to collect wind speed and direction.

The equipment I used in Massachusetts was somewhat crude so I invested in a new electronic wind vane that promised a high level of accuracy. The wind vane and anemometer fed data into a Basic Stamp microcontroller which then passed on the data to a laptop running a data collection application written in processing. Data was collected once a second for the entire month of June.

The interpretations shown here are sketches for work that will ultimately end up in a portfolio of interpretations for 2009. These 20-inch square drawings were produced for a show at ahn|vhs in Philadelphia. They are tentatively titled:

60 * 60 * 24 particles
moving around a central point
based on wind conditions in
Long Island City, NY
June 21–27, 2009

A review of the show by Roberta Fallon appeared in the philadelphia weekly and theartblog.org.

Support for this project came, in part, from the Appalachian State University Research Council.