cone of uncertainty

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schedule

10/19 8PM EST (10/20 10AM AEST)
https://risd.zoom.us/j/96411026049
John Durham Peters, The Marvelous Clouds, ch. 5, The Times and the Seasons: Sky Media II (Kairos), 2015
Lorraine Daston, Cloud Physiognomy, 2016

11/23 8PM EST (11/24 12PM AEST)
https://risd.zoom.us/j/99142192909
Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain, Section VI: Air and Light, 1977
Tim Ingold, The eye of the storm: visual perception and the weather, 2005
Janine Randerson, Weather as Medium, ch. 2, Sensing the Weather, 2018
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12/14 8PM EST (12/22 12PM AEST)
https://risd.zoom.us/j/92950146943
Hito Steyerl, chapter(s) from Medium Hot: Images in The Age of Heat, 2025
Scott Schwartz, Weather or Not?, 2024
Lucia Rebolino, Unpredictable Atmosphere, 2024
Janine Randerson, Weather as Medium, ch. 3, Weather Envisioning, 2018



TBD
Jussi Parikka + Abelardo Gil-Fournier, Living Surfaces ch. 6, Living Surfaces of Measuring Numbers, 2024
W. Mitch McEwen + Nadir Jeevanjee, On Cloud Time and Protocols, 2025
D. Graham Burnett, The Archive of Ice: Tracing climate change at the National Ice Core Laboratory, 2015
Antti Salminen, On the meaning of experimental art in the eye of the anergy storm, 2018




other readings
Rebecca Solnit, Every Corner is Alive: Eliot Porter as an Environmentalist and Activist, 2007
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, On Patterns and Proxies, 2018
Barry Sheils The Meteorological Device: Literary Modernism, the Daily Weather Forecast and the Productions of Anxiety, 2024
Emily Eliza Scott, Archives of the Present-Future: On Climate Change and Representational Breakdown, 2016
Lisa Robertson, The Weather (excerpts), 2001
James Elkins, Art History and Images That Are Not Art, 1995
Ursula Le Guin, The New Atlantis, 1975
Sadie Plant, Something in the Air, 2016
Paavo Järvensivu, Art's Transformative Potential, 2012
Scott Schwartz, Weather or Not?, 2024
Leah Beeferman, Cloud-Scale Uncertainties, 2024