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Jane Marsching Arctic Listening Post

Discipline
Emerging Fields
Medium
Digital Art
Subject

Environment

Mythology

Science
State
Massachusetts
Year
2006
Status
In Production

Description

Arctic Listening Post is an interdisciplinary collaborative series of digital images and sculptures that explore current and historic impressions of the Arctic. The works are composed using three-dimensional modeling techniques and draw on scientific data, as well as science fiction, vaudeville and architectural drawings. At once irreverent and scientific, the work explores the relationship of science and myth to the circumpolar landscape, while also detailing the collapse of the area due to environmental changes.

Jane Marsching

Digital media artist, Jane D. Marsching’s work has been exhibited at North Carolina Museum of Art; CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Photographic Resource Cent…
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Project Updates

2009: Marsching travels to Arctic science research stations as part of the final phase of Arctic Listening Post
2008: Marsching collaborates with a green architect named Mitchell Joachim on various parts of Arctic Listening Post
2008: Different iterations of Arctic Listening Post are on view at Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art; and at the Zero01 Festival in San Jose