KOKKINO

Its name, drawn from the Greek word for red, echoes the chromatic language of warnings, a visual alarm for the accelerating climate emergency.

Powered by publicly available climate datasets, Kokkino translates objective statistics into visual and emotional landscapes.

A dense particle system evokes the vastness of the macro and the intricacy of the micro (as above, so below). Its generative motion recalls oceanic and atmospheric currents, shifting in direct response to temperature fluctuations. Cooler readings appear as icy blue-whites; warming trends bleed into deep reds, culminating in the intense scarlet of recent record-breaking years.

In this transformation of data into movement and color, cold facts gain a pulse. Kokkino invites viewers to witness planetary change not only as a scientific reality, but as a cultural, emotional, and existential one.

It is an evolving portrait of the planet’s fragility and a call to imagine how we might still alter its course.

Data sources:

• GISTEMP Team, 2023: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP), version 4. NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Dataset accessed 2023-10 at https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/.

• Lenssen, N., G. Schmidt, J. Hansen, M. Menne, A. Persin, R. Ruedy, and D. Zyss, 2019: Improvements in the GISTEMP uncertainty model. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 124, no. 12, 6307-6326, doi:10.1029/2018JD029522.