Toby Pollard

On the 24th March 2026, a series of storms were forecast across southern England by the Met Office. Many of these storms never took place. The project takes data from these forecasts and investigates the limits of scientific modelling, and its subsequent human impacts.

Scientific modelling presents itself as an extension of reality, something to be trusted and believed. Whilst this is often the case, it creates fictions too. These fictions are sites in which ontology becomes confused; what is treated as real, and what is actually real, no longer match.

Spaces of ontological confusion, like a storm which never existed, are increasing in size and frequency as AI begins to predict and forecast more of our world.

The work questions how we might interact with this new landscape of commodified prediction, and the impact of the fictions which are produced in the process.

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