Antarctic Animation
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This website contains material for a doctoral thesis being prepared by Lisa Roberts for submission to the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, in March 2010.
The initial impetus to use animation to describe Antarctica was a heightened sense of being that I had experienced there. Because I had used gestures and line drawings in animations before, to describe other places, I imagined it was possible to do this for Antarctica.
A stronger impetus, however, arose from a desire to articulate scientific knowledge of Antarctica. Our ship had arrived in Antarctica on the day that George Bush had refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol (February 2002). After witnessing expressions of disbelief in the faces of scientists on board, I felt compelled to find ways to convey something of what they know.
What could be done? If animation could be used to combine a heightened sense of being, with scientific data from Antarctica, perhaps awareness of our connection to global warming could be raised.
