The Daily Weather Report
The Daily Weather Report
The Daily Weather Report Season 1
Spring 2023, featuring: Elise Bickford, trevor ks, Talia Shea Levin, e clayton scofield, and Ashlee Zlatna
The Daily Weather Report Season 2
Fall 2023, featuring: Jordan Barger, Dorian Dean, Elise Bickford, Anna Magavern, and e clayton scofield
The Daily Weather Report Season 3
Spring 2024, featuring: Emily Chan, Talia Shea Levin, Anna Magavern, e clayton scofield, and Olivia Sio Tse
The Daily Weather Report Season 4
Fall 2024, featuring: Elise Bickford, Talia Shea Levin, Anna Magavern, e clayton scofield, and Patrick Stefaniak
Project Statement
The Daily Weather Report is a collective and collaborative experiment in form and authorship mediated through the constraints of Google Docs. I curate five people to write together using Google Docs over a 15-week duration. Collaborative writing explores intimacy through play with language and image to discover meaning together. Words become malleable sculptural material evolving into image, hypertext, and annotation, through revision and reversion.
Notes on process: Each installment - called season - lasts fifteen weeks and features five participants - meteorologists - who commit to the experiment for the duration of the season. Each meteorologist is assigned a day of the week for each of the 15 weeks. Each week of the season has a corresponding Google Doc. When a meteorologist is assigned a day, the meteorologist has complete editing capabilities to that week’s Doc for the 24-hour period. On Tuesday, the next meteorologist has full editing capability, and so on, until Friday, when Friday’s designated meteorologist completes the week’s Weather Report. At the end of each meteorologist’s assigned day, they relinquish weather-reporting duties to the next meteorologist. On Monday, the process begins again, with a blank Doc and a new forecast. At the end of each season, I compile the documents produced together into an e-zine, where a viewer can interact with each week’s Report. See links above.