Monday, 14 December, 2020 - 12:10
What do science, art and the colour purple have in common? According to Vicki Kerr, Postgraduate Theory Supervisor at the School of Media Arts, Wintec - quite a lot actually.
A screenshot from the moving image animation of Vicki Kerr’s climate change art project Airways.
Vicki Kerr is one of several artists creating artworks about climate change for the Track Zero funded project ‘
What if Climate Change was Purple?’, the brainchild of Professor James Renwick, meteorologist at Victoria University of Wellington.
The concept behind the name speaks to the theory that if people could see how C02 emissions change and detrimentally affect the air, if these carbon dioxide emissions were purple for instance, then people would be more driven to do something about it.