By the end
of 1990, Sir Timothy Berners-Lee had developed the first web server, web
browser and web pages. Nowadays, after more than 20 years of World Wide Web,
hyperlinks are so pervasive to be invisible to the eyes. We are used to
directly follow a reference to a document as a way to access information.
However,
today I felt the power of (hyper)links.
Climate
researcher Brandon Murphy was part of the Coldigioco scene, a uniquely vivid
scientific and geoartistic environment; for this reason he found this blog, since
I had published a post about this geoartistic school. Then he came across an article
about Luke Jerram, an artist who produces sculptures of 3D renderings of
seismographs, and signaled it to me.
That’s a
linked information sharing!
Seismogram of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and its sculptural expression by Luke Jerram. |
One of the most impressive
sulptures by Jerram was made to contemplate the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and
tsunami in Japan.
According to the artist’s webpage:
“To create the sculpture a
seismogram of the earthquake, was rotated using computer aided design and then
printed in 3 dimensions using rapid prototyping technology.”
This technique could be defined the tactile counterpart of geologic sonification, mastered by Alessandro Montanari, one of the main figures of the Coldigioco environment. Again, links.
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