The Datascape Topography of Simon Pockley, and the Landscape Animation of Hobart Hughes, are the research practices upon which I aim to build, to animate Antarctic landscape changes observed and experienced.

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“Landscape Animation involes timelapse, stop motion and sequence animation…You could describe Koyaanisqats as landscape animation.” (Hughes, 2007).

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Listening to John speak about his work, it also seems to be a different way of seeing land.

“In deserts” he said, “the underlying landscape is laid bare”. (in con, 12 June 2007)

Walking through the desert around Broken Hill with bio-geologist Sam Mooney in 2003, he came to see it from other perspectives, a more objective perspective that explained the way it was, as if from the point of view of the land itself (non-homocentric).

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“The topography of the datascape is shaped by the structural displays of a personal digital repository of texts, images and sounds…these texts are embedded in the datascape as cross referenced hypertexts.” (Pockley, 2005)

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An Antarctic topography that interconnects scientific and aesthetic responses to its landscape, can be developed as an on-line repository of shared knowledge, through a thesaurus of interconnecting journeys.

Animating just some of these interconnecting journeys as an interactive film of DVD, is my present goal.

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ABC Radio National, 10.30AM

Interview with…

about American youth how our idea of landscape is rapidly changing.