Generative video based on open source climate data
KOKKINO
EXHIBITIONS +
awards
October - November, 2023
Kokkino won the First Prize in Datos+Arte 2023, hosted by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the ABRELATAM/CONDATOS conference.
Exhibition at CAF, Montevideo, Uruguay
Kokkino exhibited at the Festival de Datos en Punta del Este
Punta del Este Convention Center, Uruguay
7-9 November, 2023
Kokkino is a generative video and infographic that transforms open-source climate data into organic, evolving visual art. Positioned at the intersection of art, science, and technology, it is both an aesthetic experience and a call to confront the climate crisis.
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.
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.
Awards, exhibition and catalogue.
Exhibition - CAF, Montevideo, Uruguay
Kokkino (2023) de Leticia Almeida y Mathías Chumino es una instalación de video generativo e infografía basado en bases de datos abiertos ganadora del primer premio en la muestra Datos+Arte 2023 , organizado por el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) y ABRELATAM/CONDATOS, los encuentros sobre Datos Abiertos más importantes de América Latina y el Caribe.
Fotos de la exhibición: Alina Viera para Abrelatam y María Pérez Gutiérrez / RAW