Here’s what we wrote to explain the box to Antarctic expeditioners on Mawson Station, Antarctica:
What’s in this box?
Artist Lisa Roberts and Software Engineer Cat Kutay explain:
We work from the University of Technology Sydney to create ‘Voices from the Southern Ocean’, a project that will travel around Australia from 2020-2022. The aim of the project is to inspire and inform young people to tell their own stories of relationship to the natural world.
We imagine that you, as Antarctic expeditioners, have most direct experience of the effects of climate change on the Antarctic, and that as people spending a year on the ice, you may have time to reflect on your relationship to nature, ans to share that with us.
We hope that what’s in this box will inspire images, videos, animations and written reflections that we can feed back into the project to share with young people. We hope you will activate what’s in the box to welcome the whales to Antarctica, and to celebrate your experience of winter solstice, and that you will send us pictures of these events.
So what’s in the box?
* The ‘Living Data Immersible’, a vessel for immersing people in scientific data and stories, shaped like a sea urchin and traditional Aboriginal Australian meeting house
* Whale and Krill puppets
* Patterns to make, photograph and animate krill and whales
* Little blocks for puppets to sit on and move around on
* USB sticks with animations to play
* Mini data projector with accessories and manual
Here’s the website for the project: https://www.antarcticanimation.com/content/wordpress
The site will evolve to include guidance on making animations. To access these tools and materials, click directly on the menu for the Data Library page: https://www.antarcticanimation.com/content/wordpress/data-library
We look forward to Email contact with you to make this project work well for everyone, and to inspire people everywhere to listen to your stories.
Email us:
Lisa Roberts: lisa@lisaroberts.com.au
Cat Kutay: Cat.Kutay@uts.edu.au
Animations
to celebrate whales, krill and people
Animations are provided by www.LivingData.net.au with contributions from scientists and artists at the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD), Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Eora TAFE (Eora), University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and University of New South Wales (UNSW).
Animation playlist. Total length: 00:42:00
001
Title: Krill Sex Twice:
Length: 00:00:00 – 00:03:48
Creators:
Voice, Rebecca Stuart.
Science, So Kawaguchi et al. (AAD).
Animation / production, Lisa Roberts.
002
Title: When our voices are censored, our spirits make noise
Length: 00:03:48 – 00:05:01
Creators:
Images and words, Rebecca Gibbs.
Whale sonographs, Brian Miller
(AAD).
Animation / production, Lisa Roberts.
003
Title: River song
Length: 00:05:01 – 00:06:02
Creators:
Photos, Lynden Nicholls.
Music, Claire Sives (UNSW, UTS).
Animation / production, Lisa Roberts.
004
Title: Whale in global sea ice
Length: 00:06:02 – 00:06:55
Creators:
Drawing, Ancestor whale. Sound, Jack Colwell.
Animation /
production, Lisa Roberts.
005
Title:
The Invisile Committee Silent Reading
Length: 00:06:55 – 00:08:35
Animation / Sound / Production, Lisa Roberts.
006
Title: The Patterns we make
Length: 00:08:35 – 00? 58
Creators:
Images & sounds, Paul Fletcher (VCA)
in East Coast Tasmania
& Bruby Island.
007
Title: This one’s for the ocean cause it sings us to sleep
Length: 00? 58 – 00:14:03
Creators:
Animation & Sound, Shirin Shakhesi (VCA).
Setar
Improvisation, Alireza Faroukhzadi.
008
Title: Voice from the sea floor
Length: 00:14:03 – 00:14:32
Creator: Animation student, (VCA).
009
Title: Snakes and fish
Length: 00:14:32 – 00:15:06
Creator: Animation student, (VCA).
010
Title: Man, fish, ocean
Length: 00:15:06 – 00:15:36
Creators: Animation student, (VCA).
011
Title: Consumerism and the Sea
Length: 00:15:36 – 00:16:03
Creator: Quince Franks, Animation student, (VCA).
012
Title: Fish scale
Length: 00:16:03 – 00:16:19
Creator: Animation student, (VCA).
013
Title:
Seeding Treaty: Talara’tingi (Flannel Flower)
signals us to
follow the words of the young
Length: 00:16:19 – 00:19:00
Creators: Animation / production, Lisa Roberts et al.
014
Title:
Seeding Treaty: Barkindji Story –
Ngatji (Rainbow serpents) and
Thirri (pee-wee birds)
creating the Darling River
Length: 00:19:00 – 00:23:00
Creators: Words, animation, Maddison Gibbs.
Performane art, Bonita Ely et al.
Electron
Microscopy, Ruth Ericsen (AAD, CSIRO)
Music: Piano, Farrah
Sa’adullah. Voice/violin, Eric Avery.
Animation / production, Lisa Roberts et al.
015
Title: Spirit Warning
Length: 00:23:00 – 00:24:43
Creators: Artwork, Marilyn Torrens & Paul Davis (Eora).
Music, Alison O’Carroll
Animation / Production, Lisa Roberts et al.
016
Title: Conserving
Length: 00:24:43 – 00:33:00
Creators: Animation / Production, Lisa Roberts et al.
017
Title: Dark Mother
Length: 00:33:00 – 00:34:15
Creators: Animator, Bonnie McAlister (VCA)
018
Title: Antarctic Energies
Length: 00:34:15 – 00:42:00
Creators:
Piano improvisation, Farrah Sa’adullah.
Animation /
Production, Lisa Roberts et al.