Hurricane Noel Rhetorical Analysis

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Due to Anna’s sickness, we only had tutorial lesson this week. From tutorial I discovered a new way of thinking what is materializing data. Before, I thought materalising data is turning a dataset into a physical object, thus using physical materials. Like work done by Nathalie Miebach “Hurricane Noel” (2011) (Image below). The work is a woven sculpture of Miebach’s translation of weather data. The shape of the sculpture has a physical appearance of hurricane, which builds up a strong physical connection between the artwork with the data. The intricate waving of the scupture establishes sense of complexity which can not achieve from simple graphing. The audience can experience the data through their personal experience by seeing the work from