Lauren Thorson. “Station Model: 10012” Week 12. Being, 2014. Storefront for Art and Architecture.
About the Project
“Station Model: 10012” will serve as a live weather reporting station and archive based upon digital and analog collection of meteorological observations for zip code 10012.
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About the Artist
Born in Des Moines, Iowa, Lauren Thorson received her MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design. She is fifty-percent of a design studio called Studio Set, and currently a Designer-In-Residence and Visiting Faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University. She has exhibited and lectured nationally, worked as a designer, and has been published internationally (she was recently named one of The Walker Art Center’s “Ten Artists to Watch in 2013”). Thorson has served as co-chair for the IEEE VIS Arts Program for the past two years, while actively pursuing research in data visualization with the University of Minnesota’s Interactive Visualization Lab since 2011.
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