S.P. Weather Station

SP Weather Station is an artist-run homemade weather station in Long Island City, Queens.
[installation!] [project website!]
It will publish the SP Weather Report, a regular printed document
available by mail subscription. Weather data will be collected at regular intervals
and made available to guest interpreters, who pair this weather data with their
own personal record of the time period in question.
The format is open-ended; interpreters may choose to record aspects
of their daily life that are directly affected by local weather,
or they can expand on the possibilities of what pairing
a weather report with a personal report might mean.

SP Weather Station builds on the existing international phenomenon
of Personal Weather Stations. Ham weather station enthusiasts worldwide
combine DIY analogue technology with organized web forums for collecting
and analyzing data, such as wunderground.com. Although weather
station hobbyists are widespread, by and large recording and processing
weather data is the domain of high-tech centers and commercial enterprises.

By recording our neighborhood's environmental conditions, we want
to participate in and add to some of the many ways people have, throughout
history, made their own weather observations. We are interested in combining
new and historical technologies, and in how individuals relate to
broader systems and patterns.

S.P. Weather Station is a collaborative project by Heidi Neilson and Natalie Campbell,
and is another exciting facet of S.P. Stationers Group