Arts & Science
Sketches of Sensorium
Immersive ocean-health data from Newton Harrison’s Sensorium for the World Ocean, Getty PST ART 2024/2025.
Sketches of Sensorium showcases core elements of the late environmental artist Newton Harrison’s (1932–2022) long-term project, Sensorium for the World Ocean. It premiered at the AlloSphere as a satellite to the UC Irvine Beall Center’s exhibition Future Tense: Art, Complexity, and Uncertainty, produced in partnership with the 2024 Getty PST Art: Art and Science Collide initiative.
The installation incorporates immersive audio and visual scientific climate and ocean health data from the Ocean Health Index of the Halpern Lab at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management — turning complex environmental data into a multi-sensory experience inside the AlloSphere.
A project of the Center for the Study of the Force Majeure in collaboration with Virtual Planet Technologies, Almost Human Media, and the AlloSphere Research Group.
See also Sensorium — Newton Harrison’s broader world-ocean project.