Name: 環境藝術能否拯救地球？| RSA 期刊介紹 (Can environmental art save the planet? | RSA Journal Presents)
Uploaded: 2025-10-09T18:57:20.000Z
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In a world where climate change is often treated as an abstract future problem, artists are making the issue immediate and tangible, reminding us that the consequences of inaction are not just theoretical, but

在一個氣候變遷常被視為抽象未來問題的世界裡，藝術家們讓這個議題變得即時且具體，提醒我們不作為的後果不只是理論上的，

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real, affecting our air, our health and our planet.

而是真實的，影響著我們的空氣、我們的健康和我們的地球。

Andrea Poli is a professor at the University of New Mexico.

Andrea Poli 是新墨西哥大學的教授。

She works at the intersection of art, science and technology and has been creating artworks related to environmental issues since 1999.

她在藝術、科學與技術的交匯點工作，自 1999 年以來一直創作與環境議題相關的藝術作品。

Like many people who grew up in more low income neighborhoods, there was rich, poor, air quality, European dominated modern culture.

就像許多在較低收入社區長大的人一樣，有富裕、貧困、空氣品質，以及歐洲主導的現代文化。

Sees air, I guess I should say doesn't see air, right?

看見空氣，我想我應該說看不見空氣，對吧？

It's invisible, it doesn't exist, it's not really an entity.

它無形的，它不存在，它不是一個真正的實體。

And that's not what I experienced as a child growing up.

我經歷了這種非常噁心的氣味。

I experienced physical impact from air, whether it was good or bad.

我經歷了空氣對身體的影響，無論好壞。

I think that's something that I try to investigate and express through my artwork.

我覺得這是我試圖透過我的藝術來探究和表達的。

Is that real, tangible nature of the air that surround it.

那就是空氣真實、具體的本質，環繞著我們。

Sound was the first of those invisible entities Poli explored through her work.

聲音是 Poli 在她的作品中探索的第一個無形實體。

Sound is something that travels through air and it changes air and it changes in a way the shape of air.

聲音是透過空氣傳播的東西，它改變空氣，並以某種方式改變空氣的形狀。

Thanks to modern technology, Poli was able to visualize that change.

拜現代技術所賜，Poli 能夠將這種變化視覺化。

I was working with meteorologists and they had models of data representing atmospheric phenomena like storms, climate, and

我和氣象學家合作，他們有數據模型，代表著風暴、氣候等大氣現象，以及

so it would take that data, that numerical data, and turn that into Sound.

所以它會擷取那些數據，那些數值數據，然後將其轉化為聲音。

In 2007, Poli was given the opportunity to travel to Antarctica through a US National Science foundation grant to record the soundscape and create sonifications of the data being collected.

2007 年，Poli 透過美國國家科學基金會的補助，有機會前往南極錄製聲景，並將收集到的數據轉化為聲音。

There are at that time, if you were funded with a, with a federal, with a US funding, as a scientist, you couldn't use the words climate change.

那時候，如果你獲得聯邦、美國的資助，作為一名科學家，你不能說「氣候變遷」這個詞。

There was, it was very politicized at that time.

I found that the scientists wanted to talk to me about their thoughts in a forum that felt, felt more free and more open.

我發現科學家們希望在一個感覺更自由、更開放的論壇上與我交流他們的想法。

So I created an audio a CD called Sonic Antarctica that combines the voices of the scientists talking about their perspectives, sonifications of their data and the soundscape that we were experiencing.

所以我製作了一張名為「聲響南極」的 CD，結合了科學家們談論他們觀點的聲音、他們數據的聲化，以及我們所體驗到的聲景。

She was giving a voice to the voiceless, making the invisible visible, bringing environmental issues out of the abstract and into a space where they could no longer be ignored.

她讓無聲者發聲，讓無形的變得有形，將環境議題從抽象帶入一個無法再被忽視的空間。

As global program Director for Sounds Right, a music initiative of the Museum for the United Nations, UN live, Gabriel Smales has a similar mission.

作為聯合國現場博物館音樂計畫「Sounds Right」的全球專案總監，Gabriel Smales 也有著類似的使命。

On the 18th of April this year, 2024, sounds right partners launched Nature as an official artist on all major streaming platforms.

今年 4 月 18 日，Sounds Right 的合作夥伴們在所有主要的串流平臺上正式推出了 Nature 作為官方藝術家。

And the simple idea is that by listening to music that features sounds of the natural world, fans will be directing royalties to Nature conservation and restoration projects in the most precious and precarious ecosystems on our planet.

而簡單的想法是，透過聆聽以自然界聲音為特色的音樂，粉絲們將會把版稅導向我們星球上最珍貴且脆弱生態系統的自然保育和復育計畫。

To ensure all ecosystems are represented in the music, Sounds Right has worked with artists from across the world, including UK based singer Ellie Goulding, Indonesian heavy metal band Enda and Reza, and

為了確保音樂中能呈現所有生態系統，Sounds Right 與來自世界各地的藝術家合作，包括英國歌手 Ellie Goulding、印尼重金屬樂團 Enda and Reza，以及

50% of the recording royalties are on featuring Nature Tracks.

50% 的錄音版稅用於 Nature Tracks。

So these are tracks that human artists have collaborated with nature Go to nature itself for the pure Nature tracks.

所以這些是人類藝術家與大自然合作的曲目，Go to nature itself 則是純粹的 Nature 樂曲。

So the sounds of rain that people use to go to sleep.

所以人們用來幫助入睡的雨聲。

70% of those recording royalties go to the Conservation fund.

其中 70% 的錄音版稅將用於保育基金。

In the four months since launch, Sunsright has hit 50 million streams.

自推出四個月以來，Sunsright 已達到 5000 萬次串流。

In the next four years, they hope to reach 600 million individual listeners, making Nature one of the largest artists in the world, which would generate an estimated $40 million in conservation funding.

未來四年，他們希望觸及 6 億名聽眾，讓 Nature 成為全球最大的藝術家之一，預計將產生 4000 萬美元的保育資金。

We hope that Sounds Right becomes a demonstration of how nature can be properly valued.

我們希望 Sounds Right 能成為一個示範，展現大自然如何被妥善重視。

In our economic model, we're focused on music, but

在我們的經濟模式中，我們專注於音樂，但

we can see this extending to other cultural genres like film or even gaming, and

我們可以將其延伸到其他文化類型，例如電影，甚至是遊戲，並且

potentially even extend to other industries like pharmaceuticals that derive huge value from nature's contribution in the development of their intellectual property.

甚至可能延伸到其他產業，例如製藥業，這些產業從大自然對其知識產權發展的貢獻中獲得巨大價值。

As Mills points out, music and sound may not be the only way to achieve these ends.

正如 Mills 指出的，音樂和聲音可能不是實現這些目標的唯一途徑。

Started to do visual animations that responded to real time data or sensors in the environment.

開始製作視覺動畫，這些動畫會對即時數據或環境中的感測器做出反應。

One of the first ones was Particle Falls.

其中一個最早的例子是 Particle Falls。

Particle Falls is a real time, environmentally reactive public artwork that allows viewers to see the current levels of fine particulates as a digitally generated waterfall cascading down the facade of a selected building.

Particle Falls 是一個即時、對環境有反應的公共藝術品，讓觀者可以看到懸掛在選定建築物外牆上的數位生成瀑布，展現目前的懸浮微粒濃度。

When I first created Particle Falls, the monitor that I was using was one of the very first ones that could measure a particulate.

我第一次創作 Particle Falls 時，使用的監測器是能測量懸浮微粒的早期機種之一。

An air particulate or pollution particulate that was 2.5 microns, and 2.5 microns is very, very tiny.

這種懸浮微粒或汙染微粒的大小是 2.5 微米，而 2.5 微米非常非常小。

Just to give you an example, a grain of Salt is about 80 microns thick.

舉個例子，一粒鹽大約有 80 微米厚。

So this tiny particle is easily lodged in the lungs, in the heart, and

所以這種微小的粒子很容易滯留在肺部、心臟，

can cause respiratory problems over time.

並可能隨著時間造成呼吸道問題。

Depending on how much is there, these tiny particles can be deadly and in the case of an inversion event, can kill thousands of people almost instantly.

這些微小粒子有多少，就可能有多致命；在逆溫事件發生時，甚至可能瞬間殺死數千人。

That is a major disaster, major loss of life, and

那是場重大災難，造成大量生命損失，

it doesn't seem to be something that provokes outrage.

但這似乎並未引起人們的憤慨。

And I guess that's another aspect of this invisibility of air quality.

而且我猜這也是空氣品質這種無形議題的另一個面向。

By transforming environmental data into sound and visual art, Pulley has made the intangible impacts of climate change something that can be felt, heard and seen.

透過將環境數據轉化為聲音和視覺藝術，Pulley 讓氣候變遷這些無形的影響變得可以感受、聽見和看見。

Once you see that, once you think about that and you internalize it, then you want to do something about it, right?

當你看到這一點，當你思考這一點並將它內化，你就會想為此做些什麼，對吧？

Poli's work challenges us to confront the reality of our impact on the planet.

Poli 的作品挑戰我們去面對我們對地球影響的現實。

Sounds Right brings the sounds of nature into the everyday lives of millions of people, turning the simple act of listening into a form of activism.

Sounds Right 將大自然的聲音帶入數百萬人的日常生活中，將單純的聆聽行為轉化為一種行動主義。

Together, these efforts remind us that addressing climate change is not just a scientific or political challenge, but

總體而言，這些努力提醒我們，應對氣候變遷不僅是科學或政治上的挑戰，

a cultural and emotional one, one that art is uniquely positioned to tackle.

也是文化和情感上的挑戰，而藝術在這個領域有著獨特的定位。