Earth Dayta - Harbingers
About "Harbingers", a work in three parts by Ameera Godwin, Video Art/Concept Design
For the Earth Dayta event, we wanted to design a site-specific art and music experience where we would be in conversation with the location as artists and scientists, using sensory and scientific data, live and historical--to perceive, feel, understand, and care about the earth.
“Harbingers” are subtle yet observable signs of climate change.
Harbingers was the featured piece of the Earth Dayta, performed live and projected upon the historic 1860s Wakamatsu farmhouse in Placerville, CA on April 23, 2022. Interweaving climate data, historical weather records, original video, found images, and original music, the three-part piece explores changing relationships between nature and accelerated human activity in the Sierra Foothills region along the timeline of the 1800s to the present.
Color of the Sky
In Color of the Sky, six sections of video and music were inspired by 1855 data of local weather observations recorded by a doctor looking for connections between weather data and the transmission of disease, including the color of the sky. This movement of Harbingers is like a painting, with music composed by Miguel Noya, video by Ameera, like an abstract map of history and weather, to view the place as earlier people might have viewed it, through their eyes.