'Timelines' by Fabian Oefner
Artists + Scientists + Data = ?
Climate change affects everyone. However, climate data can be very complex. It's also difficult to access, unless you're a scientist.
Artists, working with scientists, can transform the data into visual references that people can understand.
Heartbeat of the Earth
Google Arts & Culture Lab and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have asked artists to interpret scientific evidence to create accessible visualisations.
Explore these interactive artworks to learn more about climate related issues.
Seeing the Invisible by Cristina Tarquini
In collaboration with the World Health Organization, artist Cristina Tarquini, has created interactive sculptures using the data on 4 invisible environmental issues:
- Microplastic Intake
- Air Pollution
- Noise Pollution
- Melting Permafrost
Pollinator Pathmaker By Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
Created by the artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, this one-of-a-kind inter-species artwork is commissioned by the Eden Project, Cornwall, UK.
If Pollinators designed gardens, what would humans see?
Learn more and launch the experiment.
Calling in Our Corals
Professor Steve Simpson, Mary Shodipo and Dave Erasmus need your help.
Travel to the Philippines and 9 other locations around the world and become a citizen scientist, as together, we create the ocean’s next vital study on marine protection.
2 'Insidious Rising' by Hyphen Labs
What would happen if the planet got 2 degrees warmer?
The design duo Hyphen-Labs explore the cascade effects of climate warming on humans, symbolised in the melting of a glacier.
Learn more and launch the experiment.
Heartbeat of the Earth: Medusae by Cristina Tarquini
3 'Medusae' by Cristina Tarquini
Through 'Medusae', learn how acidifying waters, rising temperatures, a lack of oxygen and other factors affect jellyfish differently to other marine species.
Learn more and launch the experiment.
4 'Plastic Air' by Giorgia Lupi
What happens to plastic when we dispose of it?
Data artist, Giorgia Lupi, created a visualisation, giving us a lens through which to discover and explore the hidden swirls of microplastics in our rain, snow and the very air we breathe.
Learn more and launch the experiment
Heartbeat of the Earth: Climate Change Impact Filter by Sey Min
5 'Climate Change Impact Filter' by Sey Min
Artist Sey Min created an interactive machine learning experiment to discover what species we might lose and what will remain as temperatures on the planet rise.
Learn more and launch the experiment
6 'The Lagoon' by Felicity Hammond
What do rising sea levels mean for your beach holidays?
See a fictional coastal city disappear under water in this video, created using photographs of locations around the world, that are most at threat of flooding due to climate change.
Learn more and launch the experiment
'Coastline Paradox' by Pekka Niittyvirta and Timo Aho
7 'Coastline Paradox' By Timo Aho & Pekka Niittyvirta
Artists Timo Aho and Pekka Niittyvirta created a map and Street View experiment that visualises actual and predicted global sea levels caused by climate change.
Is your town safe?
Learn more and launch the experiment.
8 'Diving into an Acidifying Ocean' by Cristina Tarquini
Rising temperatures in the sea make the water more acidic. Dive into the (virtual) ocean and explore the impact of rising temperatures on marine life, and to the whole planet, through an interactive data visualisation.
Learn more and launch the experiment.
'Timelines' by Fabian Oefner
9 'Timelines' by Fabian Oefner
As temperatures rise, glaciers melt. Experimental photographer Fabien Oefner has created an interactive artwork to demonstrate the dramatic retreat of 2 glaciers in Switzerland over the last 140 years.
Learn more and launch the experiment.
10 'What We Eat' by Laurie Frick
Did you know that what you eat affects the environment?
Data artist Laurie Frick is exploring the CO2 footprint of different foods and diets in the US, France, and the UK.
How does your diet compare to car emissions?
Learn more and launch the experiment.
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Continue to Explore
Heartbeat of the Earth is an ongoing project. Discover these and other experiments making climate change data easier to understand.
What can you do today, to help slow down the climate crisis and save planet Earth?
Explore all of the Heartbeat of the Earth experiments here.
