Index
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction 7
Jane D. Marsching and Andrea Polli
Chapter 2: Every New Thing: The Evolution of Artistic Technologies in the
Antarctic - or How Land Arts Carne to the Ice 19
William L. Fox
Chapter 3: Magnets of the Fantastic: The North Pole Observed 41
Jane D. Marsching
Chapter 4: Pages from the Book of the Unknown Explorer 61
Judit Hersko
Chapter 5: “Antarctic Diaries” (Excerpts) 77
Simon Faithfull
Chapter 6: Ground Truth [Focus: The Antarctic Dry Valleys] 87
Andrea Polli
Chapter 7: London Fieldworks: Polaria Fieldwork and Installation 107
Jo Joelson and Bruce Gilchrist
Chapter 8: Disappearing Ice and Missing Data: Climate Change in the Visual Culture of the Polar Regions 117
Lisa E. Bloom and Elena Glasberg
Chapter 9: Between Ecotopia and Ecotage: Polar Media 143
Peter Krapp
Chapter 10: Nonorganic Life: Frequency, Virtuality and the Sublime in Antarctica 165
Susan Ballard
Chapter 11: Inhabiting the Extreme or Making Antarctica Familiar 187
Annick Bureaud
Chapter 12: Voices, Lines, Cracks and Data-Sets: Formations of a New “Idea of the Canadian North” 199
Lesile Sharpe
Chapter 13 : Airspace [Focus: McMurdo Station, Antarctica] 213
Andrea Polli
Chapter 1 4 : Systemness: Towards a Data Aesthetics of Climate Change 237
Tom Corby
Notes 0n Contributors 251