This is a real time visualisation of the city made from environmental data. The data is collected using my live wireless sensors network in real time.

The sensots are laid out in a huge spiral creating a spiral of living. The images show the first spiral visualisation made in situ in 2007. This project was developed out of my AHRC research fellowship at Goldsmiths College in London (2006 2009) under the Title The Emergent City.

How will environmental data and sensing systems be embedded in the city and inform our environment.

Installation: Set up of wireless network in a sprial. Twenty motes and leave running and the data visualisation of the virtual spiral space come alive which is online and available for all to see.

If you want to help make this across your city please contact me. For more info on my research into wireless sensors see Sensity.

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

About the original spiral Jetty. Spiral Jetty surfaced several times between 1970 and 2002.  Throughout the lake-level fluctuations Spiral Jetty survived wave erosion; the hard salt crust probably cemented the boulders together and provided a protective layer on the jetty surface.

Contact. Stanza at sublime.net

Thanks to an AHRC creative fellowship and Goldsmiths digital studios (where I am a Research Fellow), also special thanks to Janis Jefferies.

About the original spiral Jetty.

The Spiral Jetty, considered to be the central work of American sculptor Robert Smithson, is an earthwork sculpture constructed in 1970.
Built of mud, salt crystals, basalt rocks, earth, and water on the northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake near Rozel Point in Utah, it forms a 1500-foot long and 15-foot wide counterclockwise coil jutting from the shore of the lake.
At the time of its construction, the water level of the lake was unusually low because of a drought. Within a few years, the water level returned to normal and submerged the jetty for the next three decades. Due to a recent drought, the jetty re-emerged in 1999 and was completely exposed. The lake level rose again during the spring of 2005 due to a near record-setting snowpack in the mountains and partially submerged the Jetty again.
Originally black rock against ruddy water, it is now largely white against pink due to salt encrustation and lower water levels.
The issue has been complicated by ambiguous statements by Smithson, who expressed an admiration for entropy in that he intended his works mimic earthly attributes in that they remain in a state of arrested disruption and not be kept from destruction.

In 2008 it was announced that there were plans for exploratory oil drilling approximately five miles from the jetty.[1]