CRYOSPHERE: Frozen in Time
CRYOSPHERE: Frozen in Time presents still and moving images, narrated by letters written to a past self, to articulate the encounter between the half-century-old artist and the two-and-a-half-million year old cryosphere, the solid water of Earth. Glaciers advance and recede. Memories of three short...
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ftcdlib:qt0b9496f0 2023-05-15T13:43:13+02:00 CRYOSPHERE: Frozen in Time Ivins, Christopher 55 2018-01-01 application/pdf http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0b9496f0 en eng eScholarship, University of California http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0b9496f0 qt0b9496f0 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA): http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC-BY-NC-SA Ivins, Christopher. (2018). CRYOSPHERE: Frozen in Time. UC Santa Cruz: Digital Arts and New Media. Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0b9496f0 Fine arts Film studies Environmental geology Alaska Antarctic Arctic Cryosphere Glacier Ice sheet dissertation 2018 ftcdlib 2018-10-05T22:51:43Z CRYOSPHERE: Frozen in Time presents still and moving images, narrated by letters written to a past self, to articulate the encounter between the half-century-old artist and the two-and-a-half-million year old cryosphere, the solid water of Earth. Glaciers advance and recede. Memories of three short decades fast forward and rewind in funerary remembrance. The memoriam shows viewers an intimate, one-sided glimpse of love lost to a changing landscape. The three-screen installation offers a meditative space for considering ice sheets — now vanishing on a human time scale — and allows viewers to contemplate the coinciding deaths of humans and the cryosphere. Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis Antarc* Antarctic arctic cryosphere Arctic glacier glaciers Ice Sheet Alaska University of California: eScholarship Antarctic Arctic |
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CRYOSPHERE: Frozen in Time presents still and moving images, narrated by letters written to a past self, to articulate the encounter between the half-century-old artist and the two-and-a-half-million year old cryosphere, the solid water of Earth. Glaciers advance and recede. Memories of three short decades fast forward and rewind in funerary remembrance. The memoriam shows viewers an intimate, one-sided glimpse of love lost to a changing landscape. The three-screen installation offers a meditative space for considering ice sheets — now vanishing on a human time scale — and allows viewers to contemplate the coinciding deaths of humans and the cryosphere. |
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