Smoke and Mirrors I INSTALLATION

Start date: March 9, 2024
End date: March 13, 2024
All-day event
Location: Innovation Bridge Europe House, Thompson Hotel, 4th floor, 506 San Jacinto, East 5th Entrance
saturday | sunday | thursday | tuesday

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Premiered at SXSW, Smoke and Mirrors by Beatie Wolfe uses art to communicate 6 decades of climate data, specifically rising methane levels, set alongside the verbatim advertising slogans deployed by Big Oil to deflect, discredit and delay climate data and awareness through the decades.

This evocative visualization, based on NASA’s Blue Marble image and produced in collaboration with Parliament, will be set to “Oh My Heart,” which was released as the world’s first bioplastic record by Beatie Wolfe, Michael Stipe and Brian Eno’s EarthPercent.

Smoke and Mirrors follows Wolfe’s multi-award winning CO2 visualisation ‘From Green to Red,’ which was unveiled at the Nobel Prize Summit and was the largest art piece at COP26. Smoke and Mirrors was influenced by the work of Geoffrey Supran & Naomi Oreskes and sources data from NASA & NOAA.

Smoke and Mirrors is part of the Future Art and Culture programme at SXSW produced by British Underground and Arts Council England with partnership support from the British Council.

Explore the data and oil ads at: www.smoke-and-mirrors.org