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The Climate Clock will be a work of landmark art that incorporates Silicon Valley’s measurement, data management, and communications technologies to help people understand climate change while encouraging them to continue reducing their carbon footprint on planet Earth.
The first implementation of the project will be in San José, but from the start, the goal is to establish a global program that will encourage and support the creation and installation of other climate clocks in communities and cities throughout the world.
The development of the Climate Clock is bringing together talents and resources that are unique to Silicon Valley. Understanding climate change is extremely data intensive. It requires the use of exceptionally sensitive instruments, computers and networks—cornerstones of Silicon Valley’s economy and culture. The Climate Clock can also incorporate technologies from the new clean technology industry cluster that has emerged in Silicon Valley.
The Climate Clock will stimulate and challenge Silicon Valley’s creative sector. Already internationally recognized for the innovative marriage of art and technology, Silicon Valley is attracting creative minds from all over the world to invent products and apply technology to new forms of creative expression and cultural production.
The only way the Climate Clock can be realized is through cross-disciplinary collaboration, a skill that is deeply ingrained in Silicon Valley’s culture. The project will bring together media artists, climatologists, psychologists, physicists, statisticians, linguists, anthropologists, programmers, network engineers, industrial designers, and many more.
It’s an instrument
It’s a work of art
It’s a destination
It informs, educates, and motivates
It’s always there