Abstract
Anthropogenic climate change is irreversible and its effects here to stay. As humans, we are a community of information seekers, with inherent agency to mitigate and adapt to the adverse effects of climate change, yet there is no alignment between the information produced within scientific and academic agency groups and the public. The raw form of numbers and words as data is not going to appeal to a wider group of stakeholders, and this creates a gap for data visualisation and specifically data-driven art. Such art can close the gap between data needed for forecasting and mitigating adverse changes, and the call to action, dialogue and involvement of the public needed to bring about actual change in our climate change adaptation behaviours. This chapter explores, first, human agency and the reactions art can evoke, as a call to action. Some examples of data-driven art are also presented and the three spaces these exert influence in everyday life. This is followed by an introduction to a matrix for evaluating the impact and phenomenology of data-driven climate change art, derived from extant literature. The main contribution of this chapter is the conceptualisation of this matrix and creating space for further discussion and insights into the body of knowledge towards intrinsic, intangible and artistic curation of otherwise scientific and raw data forms.