# Passage of Water

Canonical URL: https://jeanyoon.ch/oi/experiments/passage-of-water
Type: experiment
Artist: Jeanyoon Choi (최정윤)
Year: 2023
Medium: HTML
Context: HTML

## Summary

Passage of Water is an interactive experience by artist Yiyun Kang that interprets NASA satellite data on Earth's freshwater, developed with Google Arts & Culture and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Jeanyoon Choi contributed web development, data analysis and visualisation between July and December 2023. The work draws on GRACE and SWOT satellite data and was presented online and at UNFCCC COP28 in Dubai. Kang and Choi later co-authored a Leonardo article on the project.

## 요약 (Korean)

『Passage of Water』는 Yiyun Kang 작가가 구글 아츠 앤 컬처, NASA JPL과 함께 지구의 담수를 위성 데이터로 해석한 인터랙티브 작품으로, 최정윤은 웹 개발과 데이터 분석·시각화를 맡았습니다.

## Questions this answers

### Who made Passage of Water?

Passage of Water is an artwork by Yiyun Kang, developed with Google Arts & Culture and NASA JPL. Jeanyoon Choi contributed web development, data analysis and visualisation.

### What data does Passage of Water use?

It interprets NASA satellite data on Earth's freshwater, specifically from the GRACE and SWOT missions.

Topics: freshwater, satellite data, data visualisation, climate, web development

References: Yiyun Kang, [Google Arts & Culture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Arts_%26_Culture), [Jet Propulsion Laboratory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_Propulsion_Laboratory), [NASA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA)

## Description

An interactive experience by Yiyun Kang interpreting NASA satellite data on Earth’s freshwater, developed with Google Arts & Culture and NASA JPL.

Jeanyoon Choi contributed web development, data analysis and visualisation. See the project record for his role in this collaboration.

## Links

- [Visit experiment](https://goo.gle/passageofwater)

## Images

- https://jeanyoon.ch/experiments/passage-of-water/1.webp — Passage of Water (2023), documentation image 1.
- https://jeanyoon.ch/experiments/passage-of-water/2.webp — Passage of Water (2023), documentation image 2.
- https://jeanyoon.ch/experiments/passage-of-water/3.webp — Passage of Water (2023), documentation image 3.
- https://jeanyoon.ch/experiments/passage-of-water/4.webp — Passage of Water (2023), documentation image 4.
- https://jeanyoon.ch/experiments/passage-of-water/5.webp — Passage of Water (2023), documentation image 5.
- https://jeanyoon.ch/experiments/passage-of-water/6.webp — Passage of Water (2023), documentation image 6.
- https://jeanyoon.ch/experiments/passage-of-water/7.webp — Passage of Water (2023), documentation image 7.
- https://jeanyoon.ch/experiments/passage-of-water/8.webp — Passage of Water (2023), documentation image 8.

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Jeanyoon Choi (최정윤) is a Korean computational artist and researcher (b. 1999), PhD candidate at KAIST XD Lab, making multi-device web artworks. Profile: https://jeanyoon.ch/oi/en. Index: https://jeanyoon.ch/llms.txt.