# Passage of Water

Canonical URL: https://jeanyoon.ch/oi/projects/passage-of-water
Type: project (collaboration / commission)
Period: 2023
Role of Jeanyoon Choi: Web Developer, Data Visualisation
Context: Yiyun Kang, Google Arts & Culture, NASA JPL
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates / online

## Summary

Passage of Water is an artwork by Yiyun Kang, developed in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, that examines Earth's freshwater through GRACE and SWOT satellite data. Jeanyoon Choi contributed web development, data analysis and visualisation from July to December 2023. The work was presented online and at UNFCCC COP28 in Dubai. Kang and Choi co-authored 'Passage of Water: Artistic Exploration of Earth's Freshwater with Google and NASA' in Leonardo (MIT Press, 2025).

## 요약 (Korean)

『Passage of Water』는 Yiyun Kang 작가가 구글 아츠 앤 컬처, NASA JPL과 함께 GRACE·SWOT 위성 데이터로 지구의 담수를 다룬 작품으로, 최정윤은 웹 개발과 데이터 분석·시각화를 맡았고 COP28 두바이에서도 소개되었습니다.

## Questions this answers

### What was Jeanyoon Choi's role in Passage of Water?

Jeanyoon Choi was web developer and handled data analysis and visualisation for Yiyun Kang's Passage of Water from July to December 2023.

### Where was Passage of Water presented?

Passage of Water was presented online and at UNFCCC COP28 in Dubai.

### What satellite data does Passage of Water use?

It uses data from NASA's GRACE and SWOT satellite missions to examine Earth's freshwater.

Topics: freshwater, satellite data, data visualisation, climate, art and science collaboration

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), [GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_Recovery_and_Climate_Experiment), [SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_Water_and_Ocean_Topography), [2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference), [Leonardo (journal)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_(journal))

## Description

An artwork by Yiyun Kang, developed in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, examining Earth’s freshwater through GRACE and SWOT satellite data.

Jeanyoon Choi contributed web development, data analysis and visualisation from July to December 2023. The work was presented online and at UNFCCC COP28 in Dubai.

## Links

- [Visit project](https://goo.gle/passageofwater)
- [Project documentation](https://www.xdlab.net/projects/passage-of-water)

Related experiment: https://jeanyoon.ch/oi/experiments/passage-of-water

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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.