Glacier tracer

RESEARCH BACKGROUND: 'Glacier Tracer' began with a six-week Creative New Zealand and Department of Conservation Wild Creations artist in residence award ($7000) at Fox Glacier in 2010. The researcher-artist made a series of drawings and video projects and ran Global Positioning System (GPS) drawing workshops, work documented in 'Land. Here.' (2012 ISBN: 978-0-473-23541-3) a 48-page publication with introductory essay by Oxford University geographer Joe Gerlach. Influenced by the critical cartographic writings on John Fels and Dennis Wood, the work explored a space between mapping's processes of abstraction and how maps are put to use in lived experience; a process of being drawn into the landscape. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: 'Glacier Tracer' reconstructs five walks on Fox Glacier, all of which were recorded on a GPS device. The research produces new knowledge by 'setting the immanence and immediacy of GPS traces amongst the protracted millennial lurch and flow of glaciers' (Gerlach). The act of drawing the routes (across the Glacier) conflated scales of experiential, bodily and cartographic where walking becomes digital code becomes drawing becomes moving image. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: 'Glacier Tracer's multiple iterations at local and international levels demonstrate the signifiance and innovation of the work. It was funded by a Creative NZ residency (2010). In 2011, the International Cartographic Association working group on Arts & Cartography invited the researcher to give a guest lecture on the project ('Land.Here. A Subjective Carotgraphy of Fox Glacier') at the Mapping Processes and Practices: Arts, Maps and Society conference in Paris. The researcher gave a public talk on 'Glacier Mapping' at ASCUS Art Science Collaborative in Edinburgh. In 2012, 'Glacier Tracer' was selected for a curated group show at The Lock-Up , Newcastle,a leading art gallery and museum funded by the NSW Government, the Newcastle City Council, Arts NSW and the University of Newcastle.

研究背景：“Glacier Tracer”项目始于2010年在福克斯冰川（Fox Glacier）开展的为期六周的驻留项目，该项目由新西兰创意署（Creative New Zealand）与新西兰保护部（Department of Conservation）联合颁发的“野生创作”（Wild Creations）艺术家驻留资助金（7000新西兰元）支持。该研究者兼艺术家创作了一系列绘画与影像作品，并开设全球定位系统（Global Positioning System）绘图工作坊，相关成果被收录于2012年出版的48页出版物《Land. Here.》（ISBN：978-0-473-23541-3），该书由牛津大学地理学家乔·格拉赫（Joe Gerlach）撰写引言。该作品受约翰·费尔斯（John Fels）与丹尼斯·伍德（Dennis Wood）的批判性制图学研究文献影响，探索了制图过程的抽象性与地图在现实生活中的应用之间的张力，即一种沉浸式融入景观的绘制过程。研究贡献：“Glacier Tracer”项目重构了福克斯冰川上的五条徒步路线，所有路线均通过全球定位系统（GPS）设备记录。正如格拉赫所言，该研究通过“将GPS轨迹的内在性与即时性置于冰川绵延千年的蠕动与流动之中”，生成了全新的学术认知。绘制冰川路线的行为将体验性、身体感知与制图学的尺度进行了融合，使徒步行为依次转化为数字编码、绘制作品，最终成为动态影像。研究意义：“Glacier Tracer”在本地与国际范围内的多次落地迭代，彰显了该作品的学术价值与创新性。该项目最初由2010年新西兰创意署驻留项目资助。2011年，国际制图协会（International Cartographic Association）艺术与制图工作组邀请该研究者，在巴黎举办的“制图过程与实践：艺术、地图与社会”会议上，以《Land.Here.：福克斯冰川的主观制图》为题发表特邀演讲。该研究者还曾在爱丁堡的ASCUS艺术科学合作中心开展题为“冰川制图”的公开讲座。2012年，“Glacier Tracer”入选由新南威尔士州政府、纽卡斯尔市政府、新南威尔士州艺术署与纽卡斯尔大学资助的顶尖艺术场馆——纽卡斯尔The Lock-Up美术馆的策展群展。