Blue Sky Day began as a photographic and textual series rendered in archival ink pigment prints which began in 2010. It is a portrait of Beijing’s industrialization and growth through it’s sky and air quality readings.
The color palette of Beijing’s sky is documented for monthly periods in correlation with air quality readings that are gathered from the Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People’s Republic of China. A Chinese air quality chart measures various conditions where Blue Sky Days are defined as those with an API (Air Pollution Index) of 100 or less. This API index was developed by Chinese State Environment Protection agency where descriptive markers apply to each 50 API increment– Excellent, Good, Light Polluted, etc. The index is calculated from several sets of air pollution data.
The project investigates sky coloration trends in relationship to data and questions this relationship at times where alternative factors may take more precedence- weather patterns, time of day and data collecting procedures.
This Fall, Blue Sky Day is translated in installation format consisting of visual projection and sound.
CYJO
Blue Sky Day
September 28th – October 14, 2012
China Millennium Monument
Museum of Digital Arts (CMODA)
Fu Xing Road, Haidian District
Beijing
China
Sound Engineering: Benoit Granier
Installation Production Support: CMODA, Jia Shasha
