Kirschner, Carolyn. 2021. 'Electronic Visions of the Arctic Ocean'. In: ICASS X: 10th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences. International Arctic Social Sciences Association, Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation 15 - 20 June 2021. [Conference or Workshop Item]

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Abstract:
Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about a place or phenomenon without making physical contact, allowing for data collection in remote or inaccessible regions. Amidst an ongoing territorial dispute over the Arctic seabed, in which data has become the currency of sovereignty, these technologies are proving particularly indispensable. Probes, sensors, and satellites are deployed in growing numbers, tasked with harvesting data and meta-data from the seafloor in order to substantiate overlapping territorial claims. They have become a synthetic species of the polar ecosystems, a vast network of sensors tasked with transmits glimpses of the remote ocean back to solid ground.

In this context, I explore questions of proximity, abstraction, and artificiality. How are ocean ecologies constructed and experienced when they are mediated by machine senses? What is included and what is left out? What alternate, expanded versions of the landscape might emerge?

My research and design work grapple with these questions by seeking out the gaps and glitches between the physical terrain and its digital alter-egos—a slippery space I call the algorithmic wilderness. From this vantage point, I consider how sovereign agendas and capitalist enterprises currently distort the landscape, und use environmental data extracted from the Arctic Ocean to experiment with alternative materialities and visual languages—foregrounding non-human senses and non-Western perspectives.

Session:
Arctic Design - Best Practices from the Geographic Periphery

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Keywords:	Remote Sensing, Geopolitics, Technology, Indigenous, Borders, Non-Human
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Design
Dates:	Date Event 17 June 2021 Completed
Event Location:	International Arctic Social Sciences Association, Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation
Date range:	15 - 20 June 2021
Item ID:	37433
Date Deposited:	27 Aug 2024 09:31
Last Modified:	27 Aug 2024 09:31
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/37433

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