“Visual arts: Woven from the planet’s woes” published in The World Today

How do we make sense of our complex relationships to and with the earth?

October 2021

“Can Art Help Save the Planet” by Alina Tugend for the New York Times

March 12, 2019

“The University of Colorado Art Museum, using resources at its doorsteps, is showing “Documenting Change: Our Climate (Past, Present and Future), until July 20. It encompasses 70 works of art by 30 artists.

It includes pieces by Tali Weinberg, who incorporates climate change data and drought data into the textiles she weaves, and a four-hour video by Peggy Weil, “88 Cores,” which connects images from 88 ice cores from the nearby National Science Foundation Ice Core Facility”

Making Data Physical Could Help Us Care for the Planet by Miriam Quick

April 2020

“Physical data objects can help people come to terms with the interlocking environmental crises we face. And they may even make us more likely to do something about them…”

“Bound Together: Tali Weinberg’s Tapestry of Climate Change” by M. Molly Backes

November 2019

“From one angle, a rolling prairie of green and gold grass reaches for rust-colored hills on the horizon. A few steps later, it becomes a winding river snaking across the red clay floor—or maybe what you took for a river is actually a road…”

Interview with Amy Brady for “Burning Worlds”

May 2019

“This month I have for you a fascinating interview with Tali Weinberg, an artist who utilizes weaving, sculpture, thread drawing, and works on paper to visualize climate data. As she says in our interview below, weaving "is a way to speak beyond binaries." She understands "big data" to be "a relatively patriarchal, capitalist, colonial form of knowledge" and weaving as a way to reinsert knowledge from women and indigenous peoples. The resulting artwork--Woven Climate Datascapes--is a thought-provoking and multi-dimensional way of asking questions and seeking answers about the world that goes beyond straightforward scientific inquiry.”

“The Telling of a Crisis,” by Denna Jones

June 2020

Bitter winters, suffocating summers, dry bed lakes, rising sea levels, increasing storms and their ferocity, and loss of animal and human habitat; all are on the rise as earth rebels against humanity. Can citizen action change this? Can data art alter our behaviour? Artists and crafters are exploring data visualisation—the translation of numerical data into easy-to-visualise graphics—as a way to communicate climate change. Knitters inspired by The Tempestry Project create scarves with colour gradations to indicate temperature fluctuations, while multidisciplinary artist Tali Weinberg balances the climate data in her weavings with personal and political reflections on the climate crisis…