What are you doing this Winter Break? Are you interested in working with us on a national grant and collaborating on an interdisciplinary artistic project? We are looking for a student (or two!) to collaborate with us over the Winter Break for 10-20 hours of remote work per week, completing research towards an art/ data visualization project.
Here’s what we’re looking for:
In order to complete a collaborative artistic project, we will process records from the College’s Weather Station. These records are in the form of pictures of hand-written documents. We seek to work with Carleton students to train image feature extraction algorithms to extract temperature information from these images, as well as potentially other information. We are looking for students with some CS background and an interest in art.
About the planned project:
Visual artist Jade Hoyer (Department of Art & Art History) and statistician Claire Kelling (Department of Mathematics and Statistics) are creating a large-scale artwork analyzing climate conditions in the Southern Minnesota ecotone, a delicate ecological region that bridges prairie and deciduous woods. We will create imagery depicting the local region that also features painted colored vertical bands which are statistically representative of annual temperatures from the 1860s to the present. This project will be displayed at the Perlman Teaching Museum next fall as part of a year-long celebration of the Cowling Arboretum, and is funded by a grant from the Puffin Foundation.
Interested? Please submit this form by Week 9 Monday, November 10, 11:59 pm. Email ckelling@carleton.edu or jhoyer@carleton.edu with questions.