AURORA Updates - 21 Aug 2009
Process Images from early-August 2009 [above] - many more images below
The Aurora Project
Jason Kelly Johnson and Nataly Gattegno
The Van Alen Institute 2008-09 New York Prize Fellows
Opening Party: Wednesday, Sept 16 at 6:30pm (through Saturday, Oct 17, 2009) VAI Gallery: 30 W 22nd St # 6, New York, NY 10010
The Aurora Project is an index of shifting territorial resources in the Arctic and a speculative vision for a massive new energy infrastructure and settlement pattern. Aurora suggests an alternative approach to the exploration, exploitation and eventual colonization of the region. It is simultaneously a projection of an imminent environmental condition, and the materialization of how contemporary political, social and ecological trends might be channeled towards a more productive future.
The Aurora installation on view in the Van Alen Institute gallery superimposes the ephemeral qualities of the Arctic ice field with the dynamic behavior of visitors, translating the shifting dimensions of the ice into an immersive system of flickering auroras and responsive luminescent skins. Presented alongside Aurora is a map room (“Terra Incognita”) consisting of original drawings, diagrams and other materials that provide a view into how the Arctic region has been represented, claimed, and mythologized in the past and present. A smaller interactive instrument (“The Glaciarium”) engages visitors’ senses through the sight and sound of a melting ice core.
Project Credits [as of 1/1/10]
Future Cities Lab: Jason Kelly Johnson and Nataly Gattegno with Carrie Norman, Thomas Kelley.
Project Collaborators + Assistants: Troy Rogers (Sound and Interaction), Noah Keating from mathbeat industries (Interactive + Programming Consultant) Kezia Ofiesh, Paul Fromm, Sarah Fugate, Hank Byron, Taylor Burgess, Ed Yung, Ben Fey. Poster/Pamphlet Design: Dayoung Shin. Also helping out were: Kyle Kugler, Jim Staddon, Gin Harr, Yuki Staddon, Matt Young, Brad DeVries, Kyle Sturgeon (UMich setup).
Institutions: The Van Alen Institute (NY Prize Fellowship in Systems and Ecology); The University of Michigan TCAUP (Research Through Making Grant) - Dean Monica Ponce de Leon, The University of Michigan Map Library; Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Grant, Columbia University Avery CNC Fabrication Lab (David Kwon, Christo Logan, Nicole Seekely, Philip Anzalone - Assistant Director of Avery Fabrication); NYC College of Technology - CityTech @ CUNY (Carmen Trudell, Joseph Lim, Felix Baez).
Process Images from late-July [above]
Process Images from mid-July [above]
Process Images from early July [above]
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