<Polaria> @ Wapping Hydraulic Power Station.
Photography by Andy Paradise
Photography by Andy Paradise
Polaria
In August 2001 artists Bruce Gilchrist & Jo Joelson traveled to remote
North East Greenland to record the transition from 24-hour daylight to
the twilight onset of winter. They used a spectroradiometer to
periodically measure and record light, and the body's physiological responses using a range of biomonitors. The <Polaria> fieldwork generated an
interactive virtual daylight chamber—a self illuminating machine—inspired by post-industrial concerns over the quality of the working
environment and medical research into the beneficial effects of
polarised, full spectrum light.Polaria was financially supported by London Arts, The Arts Council of England, Centre for Contemporary Arts (Glasgow), Northern Gallery for Contemporary Arts, (Sunderland), Oxford Brookes University, Clearvision International. Additional support from Artsadmin, Air Iceland, The Cambridge Arctic Shelf Programme (C.A.S.P.), The Danish Polar Centre, FujiProfessional, Hasselblad and the ProCentre, Iwasaki Eye, The Solar Energy Alliance, EPFS (Equipment Pool for Field Spectroscopy), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), and The Awakened Mind Ltd.
Photography by Anthony Oliver.
Video courtesy London Fieldworks.