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Making Art Out of Earthquakes

March 25, 2013
Screenshot of Bloom, 2013, by Ken Goldberg, Sanjay Krishnan, Fernanda Viégas, and Martin Wattenberg.

UC Berkeley’s Ken Goldberg, Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, is featured in The Atlantic for his recent work, Bloom - “an Internet-based earthwork”.

Bloom helps to explore the way people understand the physical realities of a geologically active world by monitoring the constant low-level seismic action of the Hayward Fault near campus and making it visible as dynamic artwork.

Read The Atlantic article here.