Data engagement

Live, dynamic visualisations fed by real-time data.

Art-meets-utility, we’re guided by data accessibility and transparency. Our visualisations are controlled by live data, including weather, Smart City IoT sensors, sales metrics, web analytics – anything with a live data feed.

Data engagement.

There’s plenty of live data “available”. We’re here to make it more accessible and meaningful by connecting people directly to the source. There are wide-reaching applications like public installations, education, internal data presentation, marketing activations and of course art itself.

See our first projects below.
Get in touch with Annemarie at hello@cusp.co.nz to talk projects, commissions or licensing.

WAVY GRAINY

An animation driven by real-time wave height at your local beach. Freely available and easy to access in any browser, the intensity of the wave shimmering through the grain is controlled by live wave height and wind speed at your local surf beach.

We connect the animation with real-time IoT data from environmental sensors via the Tomorrow.io API.

Just choose your beach, hit full screen and enjoy :)

Team:
Concept, visuals, UI: Annemarie Duff
Development: Lane Wirihana Le Prevost-Smith
Consulting: Kirsten Marsh

See WAVY GRAINY

Lyttelton weather

Deliberately literal, this first project was created to accompany a painterly music video. A live weather data API controls the animations, thanks to The MetService Point Forecast API.

  • Wave movement height: controlled by live wave height from an IoT sensor in Lyttelton Harbour.

  • Birds: controlled by live wind speed and direction from an IoT weather sensor in Lyttelton.

  • Cloud transparency: controlled by live % cloud coverage in Lyttelton.

  • The local time of day in New Zealand controls four visual phases: sunrise, day, sunset, night.

  • At sunset and sunrise time in New Zealand each day, the music video plays.

See the project page here and watch the live visualisation here!

View The Live Visualisation

Antarctica

Animation controls:

  • Speed of stylised ice sheet/waves melting is based on historic sea ice data over time.

  • Speed and appearance of the swirling snow driven by real-time wind speed and wind direction.

  • The sky in the background fed by a camera on location, pointed directly up at the sky. This live image feed could also be processed via video platform Mux to reflect other live data points.

Installation:

  • Suited to an immersive screen environment, wrapping the animation around 4 walls and a ceiling screen.