| Description |
1 online resource : color illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
"Far Field" will be a visually appealing book with numerous rich colour images. It offers cutting edge ideas - a new way to think about the issues surrounding climate change. There is inclusion of fascinating first person accounts of projects at the Poles. "Far Field" is a collection of essays in contemporary cultural studies combined with interview and diary excerpts exploring some of the most significant artistic, scientific, technological and philosophical interpretations of the Poles over the past decade. |
| Contents |
Every new thing : the evolution of artistic technologies in the Antarctic, or how land arts came to the ice / William L. Fox -- Magnets of the fantastic : the North Pole observed / Jane D. Marsching -- Pages from the book of the unknown explorer / Judit Hersko -- "Antarctic diaries" (excerpts) / Simon Faithfull -- Ground truth (focus : the Antarctic dry valleys) / Andrea Polli -- London fieldworks : Polaria fieldwork and installation / Jo Joelson and Bruce Gilchrist -- Disappearing ice and missing data : climate change in the visual culture of the polar regions / Lisa E. Bloom and Elena Glasberg -- Between ecotopia and ecotage : polar media / Peter Krapp -- Nonorganic life : frequency, virtuality and the sublime in Antarctica / Susan Ballard -- Inhabiting the extreme or making Antarctica familiar / Annick Bureaud -- Voice, lines, cracks and data-sets : formations of a new "idea of the Canandian North" / Leslie Sharpe -- Airspace (focus : McMurdo Station, Antarctica) / Andrea Polli -- Systemness : towards a data aesthetics of climate change / Tom Corby. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Art and science.
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Art and science. |
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Climatic changes -- Arctic regions.
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Climatic changes. |
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Arctic Regions. |
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Climatic changes -- Antarctica.
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Antarctica. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Marsching, Jane D., editor.
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Polli, Andrea, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781841506593 (electronic book) |
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1841506591 (electronic book) |
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9781841504780 |
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1841504785 |
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