Minima-Maxima.
Minima Maxima is a multicomponent output that comprises a data-driven moving-image work and a physical installation. Deploying data provided by the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center, the project expresses in different forms the yearly summer-winter fluctuations in the age of Arctic sea ice (minima-maxima) over an extended period of 28 years. The project was funded by Arts Council of England and NERC. See Portfolio Booklet for documentation of research dimensions.
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The University of Westminster
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- v2315
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- T - Other
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- Location
- First exhibited in Floating Points, solo show curated by Michael Maziere, Ambika P3, London, December 18–24, 2015. Further details in portfolio.
- Brief description of type
- Other: Multicomponent
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month
- December
- Year
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- The research involved an interdisciplinary team including members of the British Antarctic Survey. Working with qualities within the data to generate affective imagery, the research reveals the inherent capacity of the data to emphasise the vulnerability of the sea ice. In developing this “point of view,” the visualisation process paid close attention to the tonal qualities of the revealed data, and the possibilities offered by its time sequencing to develop a temporal form expressive of fragility. Dialogue with the British Antarctic Survey also revealed the significant technical and human labour involved in the scientific gathering, structuring and analysis of data. The image of a dataset being a product of both a social and scientific activity prompted ways of thinking how this might be expressed.
Developed from insights generated in an earlier research project (Northern Polar Studies), Minima-maxima addresses the challenge that climate scientists who routinely use visualisation as an analytical tool recognise: there is a more intuitive approach that could help them reach new audiences driven primarily by aesthetic concerns. Research undertaken in this area on Minima Maxima sought to provide this novel approach whilst developing, through moving image artworks at international exhibitions, as well as through a journal article, conferences and talks, an eye on older artistic traditions of representing landscape with a “point of view”.
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