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From September 15, 2022, through February 15, 2023, Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences presented the exhibition Arctic Ice: A Visual Archive. It featured two new bodies of work - Iceberg Portraiture and Sea Ice Daily Drawings - integrating field data, remote satellite imagery, scientific analysis, and multimedia visual representation to document Arctic ice that is disappearing due to climate change. The work was the outcome of a four-year collaboration spanning art, design, and polar science between artist Cy Keener, landscape researcher Justine Holzman, climatologist Ignatius Rigor, and scientist John Woods. With this work, the collaborators goal is to make scientific data tangible, visceral, and experiential. Much of what researchers know about the oceans and about sea ice has been gained through environmental modeling devices, deployed at different times in different locations. When combined, this data becomes the substance of complex and ever-evolving scientific research. This exhibition provides a small window into the datasets that compose climate science. This publication is a documentation of the exhibition and features an essay by Ignatius Rigor and an interview with Cy Keener and Justine Holzman.
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