Andrea Polli | Sonic Antarctica

Exhibition Dates: May 15 - June 15

Gallery Hours: Work activated from sunset to sunrise each day, (6:30pm – 6:30am)

ICOSA Collective is proud to present Sonic Antarctica, a collection sound works by Andrea Polli.

 The Antarctic is unlike any other place on earth: geographically, politically and culturally. It is an extreme environment that holds some of the most unique species, but it is also an ecosystem undergoing rapid change.  2007/2008 marked the fourth International Polar Year (IPY), the largest and most ambitious international effort to investigate the impact of the poles on the global environment. The Sonic Antarctica project, a radio broadcast, live performance and sound and visual installation featuring recordings of the Antarctic soundscape made during Andrea Polli's seven-week National Science Foundation residency in Antarctica during the 2007/2008 season. 

 Sonic Antarctica features natural and industrial field recordings, sonifications and audifications of science data and interviews with weather and climate scientists including nobel prize winning IPCC scientist Dr. Andreas Fischlin.  The areas recorded include: The Dry Valleys (77°30'S 163°00'E) on the shore of McMurdo Sound, 3500 km due south of New Zealand, the driest and largest relatively ice-free area on the continent completely devoid of terrestrial vegetation; and the geographic South Pole (90°00'S), the center of a featureless flat white expanse, on top of ice nearly nine miles thick.

 Andrea Polli  is an artist and scholar working at the intersection of art, science, and technology whose practice includes media performance and installation, public interventions, curating and editorial, directing and writing. She is currently Professor of Art with a joint appointment between Fine Arts and Engineering, the Mesa Del Sol Endowed Chair of Digital Media, and the Director of the Social Media Workgroup at the Center for Advanced Research Computing at The University of New Mexico. She holds a doctorate in practice-led research from the University of Plymouth in the UK and a Master of Fine Arts in Time Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.