From Green to Red by art rebel Beatie Wolfe is a stirring environmental protest piece about human impact on the planet, built using 800,000 years of NASA’s historic CO2 data. Taken from the title of a song Wolfe wrote in 2006 after seeing An Inconvenient Truth, this award-winning project has been presented at the Nobel Prize Summit, MIT, the London Design Biennale and COP26 (as the largest art statement of the conference).
From Green to Red takes the audience on a journey through our planet’s timeline, and specifically human impact, offering a powerful and dynamic visualization of 800,000 years of rising CO2 levels. Beatie Wolfe’s innovation translates intangible data, and a vast timeline often beyond our capacity to consider, into something that everyone can comprehend and feel in the length of a song.
“This piece is about re-presenting data in a way that people can literally see differently, using the power of art and music to make it evocative and relatable,” Wolfe says, “so that people can really get a sense of where we are right now.”
From Green to Red / Beatie Wolfe (GB), photo: Beatie Wolfe
From Green to Red / Beatie Wolfe (GB) at the London Design Biennale 2021, photo: Beatie Wolfe
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Beatie Wolfe “musical weirdo and visionary” (Vice), has beamed her music into space, been appointed a UN role model for innovation and held a solo exhibition of her “world first” designs at the V&A Museum. Named by WIRED as one of “22 people changing the world,” Wolfe is at the forefront of pioneering new formats that bridge the physical and digital. Recent projects include two award-winning art pieces concerning climate data, a brain installation exhibited in Somerset House, and new work together with Brian Eno.