water pouring off a glacier and wind whipping through the valleys. Heat and the Heartbeat of the City is a series of sonifications of actual and projected climate in Central Park. N. (pronounced n-point), created in collaboration with Joe Gilmore, is a real-time multi-channel sonification and visualization of weather in the Arctic. Light installation Polli has also experimented with the visualization of air. Particle Falls is a light installation that displayed air quality information in real time, using a nephelometer to sample particulate matter in air from a city street, and projecting changing light patterns every 15 seconds onto the wall of Philadelphia's Wilma Theater. “Philadelphia has come a long way in improving the quality of the air we breathe, but our work isn't done. Particle Falls makes it possible to see—in real time and vivid color—the challenges we continue to face." Thomas Huynh, director, Air Management Services, City of Philadelphia. Experimental architecture Polli's proposed Queensbridge Wind Power Project would incorporate wind turbines into a bridge's structure to recreate aspects of its original design as well as producing energy to light the bridge and neighboring areas. Polli worked in collaboration with Rod Gdovic of WindStax, a Pittsburgh-based wind turbine manufacturer, on Energy Flow, an installation with 27,000 multicolored LED lights positioned along the Rachel Carson Bridge in Pittsburgh, PA. The vertical cables of the bridge show a real-time visualization of wind speed and direction captured by a weather station located on the bridge. The electricity that powers Energy Flow is generated by sixteen wind turbines attached to the catenary arches of the bridge. Energy Flow uses data visualization to make people aware of changes in the environment. References 1968 births Living people Environmental artists American women in electronic music School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni Alumni of the University of Plymouth Robert Morris University Illinois faculty Columbia College Chicago faculty Hunter College faculty University of New Mexico faculty American women academics 21st-century American women