RadianceScape Live!

RadianceScape Live! is an audiovisual performance, also a further extension to the project RadianceScape 2016. It features live radiation data of different major cities (New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Berlin and Paris…) in comparing to Chernobyl and Fukushima.

Since 2011, the 311 Earthquake in Fukushima once again woke up the world attention on the nightmare of the nuclear disaster. Until now, there is no workable solution for Japan to fix the radiation leaking problem. The highly radiated wastewater has to be released to the Pacific Ocean and keep contaminating the marine life and in the result of damaging the whole food chain. While, the Japan government keeps hiding the news and real situation of the radiation problem. The project aims at visualising the radioactivity and raise out the awareness to the public.

RadianceScape attempts to visualize radioactivity. Through visually representing invisible radiation based on the collected radioactivity data from the international organization, Safecast.org, and combined with OpenStreetMap, this work is able to generate the density level of radiation and audio sounds. By visualizing the cityscape of nuclear radiation,RadianceScape hopes to raise the public’s awareness and attention to nuclear disasters.