“We invited an artist… launch your projects under Google’s platform… I use a game engine… we brought it to the COP28 Dubai… there was a queue… audience is climate scientists, policy makers, indigenous people.”

TED Tech · The case for making art in a crisis | Yiyun Kang | Your Body on Tech

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Partnered with Google Art & Culture's HeartSpeed of the Earth project, used NASA satellite freshwater data, built an interactive web art piece with a game engine, and exhibited it both physically and online at COP28 Dubai for climate scientists, policy makers and indigenous people

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