untitled antarctica is a generative installation that combines glass, wood, sculptural video, and sound. It is grounded in acoustic-imaging data of the glacier-carved seabed beneath Antarctic sea ice. Cut glass elements and CNC-carved wood follow a dataset describing the deepest depression at the fastest-melting point along Antarctica’s western coast. The soundscape is generatively altered with longitude- and latitude-specific bathymetric data mapped to discrete frequencies. The video—a shifting algorithmic composite of the same bathymetric data—renders evolving landscapes over time. Video stills were transferred to film and printed as silver-gelatin photographs.

The project was developed with guidance from geophysicist Dr. Frank O. Nitsche, research scientist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

untitled antarctica premiered at 319 Scholes Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, and has since been shown in several venues, including the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at SUNY Stony Brook, Long Island.

ua (iteration 2), glass sculpture suspended with projection. 

ua (iteration 1) at 319 Scholes Gallery. Glass sculpture in a wooden frane with projection; CNC carved wood with projection mapping behind it.  

Video stills converted to silver gelatin prints.

UA excerpt: visual, process, and sound.

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Tracks of the data, a boat used to gather data, a sub-bottom profile, and the computer vision patch and data sonification patch used as part of the process.