ECOLOGY — AGRICULTURE — POLLUTION
The work was started as an idea to collect data over my grand-grandparents land using weather balloons. Some of them started to lose height because of the small water drops covering the balloons. Based on this observation I started to collect information about ground water pollution and the future of water. That led me to idea that soon we might need to start collect water from cumulus clouds. The second sketch of the Cloud Farm was made by an architect. The process of collecting water with one of the balloons can be seen in the video. The collected data I will use to set the rent price for the land in the future for people who might be interested in using this land for they cloud-farms.
Artist
Rihards Vitols, multimedia artist
Associated researchers and co-producers
Ivars Veinbergs, architect
Reinis Nalivaiko, videographer
Entreprises associées
E-LAB Center for Electronic Art and Media
International Franco / Latvian partnership
As part of their international activities, Atelier Arts Sciences has established links with RIXC, a centre for new media culture and home to a group of artists pioneering art, science and technology projects in Riga Latvia. RIXC presents two of their leading projects tackling the issue of climate change.
