EXTRA: Talking Mephitic Air

This Side of Reality

Artist Wes Goatley, gallery director Persephone Pearl and producer Laurence Hill discuss Mephitic Air, an installation that took place in ONCA gallery in 2017 during Brighton Digital Festival. Mephitic Air was an installation that visualised and sonified air pollution outside the gallery through a live feed of data taken from a sensor that the artists had placed made. This conversation covers the uses and misuses of data, the installation and attendant programme and the UK's oldest protest song. Image by Idil Bozkurt.