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BIO

Andrea Polli www.andreapolli.com is a digital media artist, Associate Professor in Fine Arts and Engineering and Director of the Interdisciplinary Film and Digital Media Program at The University of New Mexico. Polli’s work with science, technology and media has been presented widely in venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art Artport and The Field Museum of Natural History. Her work has been reviewed by the Los Angeles Times, Art in America, Art News, NY Arts and others. In 2007/2008, she spent seven weeks in Antarctica on a National Science Foundation funded residency.

SONIC ANTARCTICA

The Antarctic is undergoing rapid change. The Sonic Antarctica project is a radio broadcast, live performance and sound and visual installation featuring natural and industrial field recordings, geosonifications and audifications, interviews with Antarctic weather and climate scientists and soundscape compositions.

The areas recorded include: The Dry Valleys (77°30’S 163°00’E) 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.

Sonic Antarctica has been produced as a full-length audio CD on the Grunrecorder label.
This proposal is for a 3-channel video installation with stereo sound featuring video from a wireless weather balloon at the South Pole.

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