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