Anna Madeleine Raupach is a multidisciplinary artist based on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country Canberra, Australia. Her practice spans physical and digital forms to explore how human and machine expression recursively evolves, and to examine how technology shapes our interpretation of the natural world. Using expanded drawing methods, experimental moving image, and mixed reality, her work re-interprets diagrammatic systems and aesthetics to inform an artistic inquiry that draws on scientific methodologies. 

Through AR, drawing and animation, The Forecast Factory generates dynamic visual compositions in response to real-time weather data.

The exhibition is based on experimental physicist Lewis Fry Richardson’s 19th century proposal for a factory in which human computers forecast the weather. More than 100 years later, this creative reinvention of the Forecast Factory returns hand-made and analogue aesthetics to Richardson’s theory of mathematical weather prediction that is still used in meteorology today.

The AR compositions in this work are generated according to environmental conditions in locations threatened by climate changed around the world. Combining hand-drawn aesthetics with images and data received directly from weather satellites, the installation redistributes human and machine interpretation where weather systems and digital networks intersect.

Image caption:  Anna Madeleine Raupach, The Forecast Factory, 2024, augmented reality, chalkboards, animation, weather data, dimensions variable.