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Encouraged by movements such as the Quantified Self, whose motto is "self-knowledge through numbers", a growing number of people across the globe are embracing practices of self-quantification and tracking in the spirit of improving their productivity and health. Martina O’Brien's installation for Resonances III Festival, B-scope, C-index, explored the ocean as a Quantified Other in conjunction with the mechanisms of linear time, travel time and time travel. Two double-channel videos combine a mixture of imagery including landscape footage, simulated 3D model footage and footage of sea, shoreline and land based monitoring systems.

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A collaboration between Martina O’Brien, Thomas Petrogliakis, Florian Pappenberger (ECMWF) and Aaron Lim (University College Cork & The Irish Centre for Applied Geoscience).

Martina O’Brien website.

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