Andrea Polli
About the Research
This research, CommunicatingAir: Alternative Pathways to Environmental
Knowing through ComputationalE comedia, is the culmination of an art
practice-led investigation into waysin which the production of ecomedia
may open alternative pathways to environmental knowing in a time of
urgent climate crisis. This research traces the author¹s artistic,
personal and political development across the period of study and
presents an extended argument for greater public engagement with weather
and climate science,greater public and private support for long-term
collaborations between mediaart and climate science, and increased
public open access to global weather andclimate monitoring and
computationally modelled data. Since the projects connect artand
science primarily through a computational approach, computing is the
shared practice that connects scientific understanding to place and
content-based creation.
About the Researcher
Andrea Polli
Mesa Del Sol Chair of Digital Media
Associate Professor, Art & Art History and Engineering
UNM Center for the Arts, Bldg 62 MSC04-2570
University of New Mexico ABQ, NM 87131
apolli (a) unm . edu
Andrea Polli is an artist and scholar from New York City living in New
Mexico. Her work with science, technology and media has been presented
widely in over 100 presentations, exhibitions and performances
internationally, has been recognized by numerous grants, residencies and
awards including a NYFA Artist's Fellowship, the Fulbright Specialist
Award and the UNESCO Digital Arts Award. Her work has been reviewed by
the Los Angeles Times, Art in America, Art News, NY Arts and others. She
has published several book chapters, audio CDs, DVDs and papers in print
including MIT Press and Cambridge University Press journals and is the
co-author of Far Field: Digital Culture, Climate Change and the Poles, a
book of essays published by Intellect Press.
She currently works in collaboration with atmospheric scientists to
develop systems for understanding storm and climate through sound
(called sonification). Recent projects include: a spatialized
sonification of highly detailed models of storms that devastated the New
York area; a series of sonifications of climate in Central Park; and a
real-time multi-channel sonification and visualization of weather in the
Arctic. In 2007/2008 she spent seven weeks in Antarctica on a National
Science Foundation funded project. She has received a Master of Fine
Arts in Time Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a
PhD in Computing, Communications and Electronics from the University of
Plymouth, UK. In 2000, she was voted Teacher of the Year at Columbia
College in Chicago in recognition of her work connecting students to the
wider community through collaborative projects. These projects
included performances and exhibitions at the Chicago Museum of
Contemporary Art and a large scale public art project connecting 5
neighborhood arts organizations with live web streaming, an exhibition
at the Chicago Cultural Center and six billboards. Pause. was featured
as the Millennium Community Artwork for Illinois and funded by The Mid
Atlantic Arts Council and Ameritech. Polli is currently an Associate Professor of Art and Ecology with
appointments in the College of Fine Arts and School of Engineering at
the University of New Mexico. She holds the Mesa Del Sol Endowed Chair
of Digital Media and directs the Social Media Workgroup, a lab at the
University's Center for Advanced Research Computing.
Website
sites.google.com/andreapolli
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