Minima-Maxima

• Main Authors: Corby, Tom, Baily, Gavin
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Fine Art; Animation Techniques; Creative Arts and Design not elsewhere classified; Antarctic; Arctic; Ridley; Antarc*; British Antarctic Survey; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/13411/; https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/13411/1/Foating-Points-Ambica-P3-Exhibition-024-900x500.jpg; https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/13411/2/Foating-Points-Ambica-P3-Exhibition-018-900x500.jpg; https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/13411/4/1_SeaIce_conc.png; https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/13411/17/Y1mmao0l.jpg

Minima-Maxima employs a time-series of climate data from the arctic between 1984 – 2012 derived from drifting buoys and satellite measurements of sea ice age. The work comes in two parts – a data driven moving image work and a physical installation showing the yearly summer-winter fluctuations of arctic sea ice age (minima-maxima) over an extended period of 25 years. The installation presents a terser set of approaches by arranging the entire data set as stacked print-outs. Organised quasi-bureaucratically, the data is opened to public scrutiny and navigation, reminding us that data is always situated and embodied in contextual, discursive and material practices that exceed a technical base. Funding for the project comes from Arts Council England and the Natural Environment Research Council. Advice for the project came from Dr Beatrix Schlarb-Ridley from the British Antarctic Survey, and Nathan Cunningham from the UK Data Archive.