T2 is an artistic exploration of real time ocean activity using wave and wind data*, webcams from the West Coast of the US and East Coast of New Zealand**, and a live global ocean conservation news feed.***

"Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.
President John F. Kennedy, Jr.,
March 1961 message to Congress


In T2, real time wave and wind data is translated into sound and animation. Webcams show a synchronous time lapse animation of recent coastal activity updated with new images every 30 minutes and a scrolling rss feed presents breaking news
The vast majority of the Earth is made up of a massive amount of moving water, changing with wind, the gravitational pull of the moon and other forces.  These oceans exemplify human international interdependence.  The Pacific, the largest and deepest of the world's seven oceans, touches both New Zealand and the US, tying these distant countries together. Surf we find thrilling at Oakura Bay today may have touched Antarctic icebergs or sparkled in the California sun years ago. Oceans are full of life, and activities in, on and around them are essential to human survival, but this responsive body is also a place of political, social and environmental turmoil.  T2 is a developing work that aims to increase awareness and appreciation of the beauty, power and importance of the ocean in a warming world.

installation screenshots installation at Govett Brewster Gallery, NZ

approximately 1 minute quicktime video 40MB

Inquiries Contact:
Andrea Polli,
Film and Media Hunter College
695 Park Ave. New York, NY 10021
212.772.5589
andrea-at-andreapolli.com

*wave and wind data from Port Taranaki, New Zealand
**webcams from Pt Chev Tamaki New Zealand and San Luis Obispo California
***rss feed from oceanconserve.org