Andrea Polli

Ear room interview is very interesting.  Discusses the motivation for getting into Art/Science and audio ecology. Links with: http://icad.org/ 
and talks about audio ecology. Am still making sense of these things.
Primary response to the glacier was involved in the potential for sound recording - MFA cohort responded positively to the idea of an audio outcome from my interaction with the scientists and the glacier.

Will continue reading around this for now.
very interested in http://www.gruenrekorder.de/?page_id=342

Crit: 18 Feb 2011 + Supervision meeting: 23 Feb 2011

Object for crit: 1905 franked postcard of the Franz Josef Glacier.

Cold Reading:

• souvenir
• remote glacier
• poetic message
• mystery
• quality of print
• redundancy of form of communication
• object of rich history
• sentimental
• scale in the landscape
• old images/static images blocking perception of climate change
• glaciers melting around the world

 Discussion

•  strange notion of buying someone else's history
• multi layering
• aspects of science
• discovering scientific information in an art forum
• relation to older image 
• contrasting with ideal pictures
• living/talking glaciers
• sound outcome
• environmental shock
• social studies aspects
• evidence 
• intriguing mystery
• is seeing believing?
• constructed viewpoints
• what is the thesis of the work?
• constructed evidence
• natural identity is complacent hindering our change to actually 'being green' 
• artists potentially more free to respond/create as they wish
• people don't want to know
• mediated perceptions keep us in a state of unconsciousness
• would consciousness create panic? vitalise action?
• constructing the truth
• tied back to capitalism
• systems of value
• Eco-friendly tourism ventures on climate affected landscapes ironic
• notion of time as leisure 
• sublime - needing to be overwhelmed by landscape
• working on a memory differently

Look up:

• The shock doctrine
• Werner Herzog - films
• Darwin's nightmare

Supervision meeting:

• Collaboration needs written permission, incl. conditions of exhibition/terms of use etc.
• Paul Winstanley - tourist landscape
• Wolfgang Staehle
• Fiona Clark - Taranaki vista
• Andrea Polli
• Live data - what is the value?
• What is the purpose of layers of conversion of data?
• What is the main thing that you hope to achieve?
• Check new media discourse - sci/art discourse
• trans media
• AV festival
• electronic arts
• Why do it?
• Who else is doing it?
• Cost webcam hosting etc - potentially do a basic version for MFA and approach CNZ post MFA
• Strategic functions
• what kind of representations will result
• investigate potential final material frameworks
• investigate implications/issues around imaging and data conversion in projects.
• potential losses: formal reduction - pure aesthetic - loss of communication/or ambiguity vs straight communication - very political, telling people how to think... 
• Stella Brennan (fake sonar)

Deciding what interests you in:
Art, photography, grand narratives, particular geographies, climate change etc. Narrow down what you want to focus on and have a clear aim before returning to glacier.

Look up Lawrence Aberhart and Mark Adam (Written on by Nicholas Butler). Francis Pound as well re: NZ pristine.

Hans Haake - River cleaning work

Narrowing potential - edit academic area of concern

A science discourse or a broader, popularised discourse?

Talk to Joyce Campbell

Think about potentially relating this project to other geographies. It could result in an output of only a few components.

Postcards at: Venice Biennale: Arsenale – Aleksandra Mir

MFA

Have decided to revamp this journal as a response to texts page in order to analyse my my thinking/order my research. Expect updates.

The opposite of green

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYjUvfVBVDA



My art completed 2009 :)

Squishy the destructor

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10900235
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/south-island/3984874/Tasman-Glacier-about-to-calve
Losing ice sheets everywhere, Russia has a heatwave/drought/forest fires, Pakistan has worst flooding in over 60 years...of course, non of this has anything to do with climate change... of course not.

Media. Misrepresent.

In pictures - for quick viewing. statistics, scientific opinion, vs media representation, vs public opinion...