Climate Frameshifts

Access

https://www.fluidencodings.com/projects/climate-frameshifts/

Timeline

February 2019

Description

This project was designed in collaboration with EDGI, the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative. In 2019, it was longlisted for the Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards.

The Trump administration has made repeated attacks on climate science, hitting policymakers, scientists, and the general public alike with a united rhetoric that claims climate change is nothing but a hoax. These attacks have been pronounced in many spaces, but there is one space that is often overlooked: federal websites. In this project, data collected by the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) Website Monitoring Team showing insertions and deletions of key climate-related terms on federal websites are imagined in the form of mutating, decaying DNA molecules. As the language on these pages mutate, so do the products of policy and rhetoric that such language yields.