to Let opening

Thanks to everyone that came out for the to Let opening yesterday! Please let us know what you think of the installations by commenting on the posts. Or ask an artist a question, etc.

Here are some photos from last night. Many thanks to two of our fantastic interns, Mollie Miller and Elaine Oh, who gave the walking tours.

Lindsey Glover had open studio hours at The Flower Shop, the evolving phenomena behind her installation, A Plastic Garden. Last night had an impromptu music performance.


Natalie Campbell gave a talk on the taxonomy of clouds in relation to her installation, The Weather Metabulator.

to Let opening events - Friday, July 3

Join us this Friday from 4:00-6:00pm at the Bernie Milton Pavilion in the center of The Commons to inaugurate to Let!
Walking tours will depart at 4:30pm and 5:30pm.
Maps of the participating properties will be available.
Food, conversation and many of the artists will be on hand.
Lindsey Glover will be having an open studio in her space at 105 S. Cayuga St. (The Flower Shop).
Michelle Illuminato's space (111B The Commons) will be featuring projections which are up only for opening night.
SP Weather Station will delivery a twilight presentation (at about 9pm), "The Taxonomy of Taxonomies of Clouds" at The Amphitheater on The Commons (just a bit west of the Bernie Milton Pavilion).

"Weather Metabulator" - SP Weather Station (Natalie Campbell, Heidi Neilson), Daniel Larson - 208 E. State St.

The Weather Metabulator is a collaboration between SP Weather Station (Natalie Campbell and Heidi Neilson) and Daniel Larson (PhD Biophysics, Cornell U., 2004) and was recently installed at the Queens Museum as part of the Queens International 4.
An adapted 1950s-era medical device, the ‘Metabulator’ translates real time analogue temperature measurements into a continuous chart readout. The Weather Metabulator uses an integrated circuit temperature transducer installed outdoors which produces an output current proportional to temperature. This analogue electrical signal is relayed along a wire from the transducer to a digital circuit inside the Metabulator, which translates the signal into the movement of a servo. The servo powers a motor which moves a pen which creates a real time drawn readout of temperature in the gallery.
The drawing produced by the chart readout of temperature data functions as a displaced “landscape” drawing. It is a representation of a specific place (through temperature data); at the same time it evokes maps of topography/elevation.

Weather Metabulator Components:
Integrated circuit temperature transducer, Wire, Instrument amplifier, Analogue to digital converter, Pulse width modulator, RC Servo and motor, AC synchron motor, Metabulator with existing stylus apparatus. (More technical information including circuit diagrams are available here)

SP Weather Station's website