Antarctica

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Mireya Masó mostly works in video and photography, and in recent years she has essentially concerned herself with the study of human beings through their action on the landscape. In her project ANTARCTICA. TIME OF CHANGE, however, she engages with a natural landscape barely touched by man, and focuses her investigations on the mechanisms of perception of the human being in an environment in continual transformation.
The conversations between the artist and scientists from different disciplines provide the basis for a discussion in the book which considers questions such as Perception in the Antarctic environment in terms of glaciology, biology, psychology, neurology and other disciplines, and The interpretation of Antarctic microorganisms from the perspective of bionanotechnology and architecture. These talks thus trace two thresholds of perception — the macroscopic, in the expanses of ice and snow that make up the Antarctic landscape, and the microscopic, through the experimentation with diatoms, an abundant form of Antarctic phytoplankton.