the Modeling - G.Vs.-01 & G.Vs.-02
Verticality Shifts appears in the 2nd edition of Antarktikos, Light and Shadow (2023).Antarktikos is an annual magazine which combines artistic and scientific exploration within the inspiring and thought-provoking context of Antarctica.
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With
the launch of the
Reference
Elevation Model of Antarctica (REMA),
providing
the highest
resolution
terrain datasets
to
date, the
dream
to
map out the
fabled
continent of
Antarctica
seems to be near
fulfilment. At
the same time, this
detailed topographic
record
can only be experienced
through
some
kind of
scientific mediation. REMA
is
constructed from thousands of
images &
Digital Elevation Models from
various satellites, producing
footage
that no human could possibly witness.The Modeling: Verticality Shifts celebrates
our capacities
to create a technological sublime, but at the same time underpins Our fixed
paradigm
of orientation, Reflecting
the relationship between our
perception of
landscape and the
visual
technologies
that
shape this
perception. It is A flat orientation, that removes us from the actuall depths of what constitutes the antarctic continent.