The art project of Scottish artist Michael Visocchi (l) has taken the next step and together with Stewart Garden (r) from WSP, the company responsible for the installation of the “Spirit Tables”, the artist has revisited Grytviken for surveys and logistics...
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a seed storage facility located on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. Also known as the Doomsday Vault, the project aims to preserve the world’s agricultural seeds – derived...
This is how Scottish artist Michael Visocchi and the South Georgia Heritage Trust envision the installation: large steel tables, each with steel rivets representing a live whale per rivet. But proportionally, areas will be free for the whales killed. The whole...
Whether it’s satellite- and drone-based data on icebergs and their migration or data on the thickness and mass of sea ice, Cy Keener and his colleagues created not only scientifically but also artistically valuable material from it. Image: Kevin Allen The polar...
While humpback whales are already well-known “singers” in the Arctic, the aim is to acoustically track icebergs in the Davis Strait. At least that’s the plan of researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WHOI and an Irish artist. Image: Dr...