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a note on these numbers

These figures show the past seven days of the restored wind engine's audience (collection began 10 july 2026). They are contemporary, not historical: no visitor data survives from the original broadcast of 24–31 January 1999. Only the wind of that week remains, shown in the rose below.

understood

wind rose · the wind now and then

the wind the audience has experienced this week
sampled as the field drifts · the past week
mean wind speed 12 km/h

this week's wind @ pekina
every hour counted, audience or not
mean wind speed 9.8 km/h

then · pekina, 24–31 january 1999
the original live window · ERA5
mean wind speed 13.3 km/h

countries where this week's audience has visited from

country	visitors
australia	7
united states	2

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Artists from the nervous_objects collective have rebuilt terra_nova, their pioneering 1999 online artwork originally developed after members met through the 1997 ANAT National Summer School.

First realised in Pekina, South Australia, in 1999, terra_nova used live weather data to drive an online media environment of sound, image, video and text. Twenty-seven years later, the work has been reconstructed for modern browsers and mobile phones, reconnecting this early experiment in Australian net art to live weather data from the same location where the project originated.

nervous_objects are: Joyce Hinterding (Lawson, NSW) ~ electro mapper; Cam Merton (Perth, WA) ~ code master; Glen O’Malley (Woopen Creek, Queensland) ~ photo-sensor, walker; Damian Castaldi (Katoomba, NSW) ~ dream seeker; Free the Radical (Adelaide, SA) ~ network hacker, brain bender; Leesa Willan (Melbourne, Victoria) ~ word cracker; Rick Vermey (Perth, WA) ~ infrared tracker; Anne Robertson (Melbourne, Victoria) ~ long distance looker; Lisa Burnett (Darwin, NT) ~ sweet order; Anita Kocsis (Melbourne, Victoria) ~ vector/flat_land interrogator.

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