For the first Screen Walk of 2025, Lucia Rebolino explored the internet as an optical device to examine climate models in digital space. Recent studies have highlighted the uncertainty of new AI foundation models in climate forecasting, particularly their failure to predict extreme events that deviate from historical patterns, as these models often dismiss outliers.

In climate science, outliers are extreme weather events—hurricanes, heatwaves, and high winds—that push the atmosphere to its breaking point. These scenarios, increasingly close to our present reality, underscore the limitations of technology and prediction.

Rebolino envisioned the web as an architectural space. Navigating spatial data and tools that measure this technologically dynamic environment, she challenged conventions and offered a perspective on the atmosphere as a memory device trained with data and informed by humans.

Lucia Rebolino is an architect and computational designer weaving science and art into counter-cartography, data, and web-based aesthetics. She is a researcher at Forensic Architecture in London. Her work on weather and prediction has been featured in e-flux Architecture, and she has lectured at Columbia University, the AA, and TU Delft, among other cultural and art institutions. Lucia holds a Master of Architecture from Politecnico of Turin and a Master of Science in Computational Design Practices from Columbia GSAPP, where she also collaborated with the Center for Spatial Research in New York, exploring how computational methods can mediate between different design practices.

Screen Walks is a series of live-streamed artist/researcher-led explorations of online spaces and artistic strategies designed to illuminate a thriving – often overlooked – digital cultural scene. An online collaboration between The Photographers’ Gallery and Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland.