Futuresonic

At Futuresonic 2009, Polli is showing two artworks at CUBE including an audio-visual installation, Sonic Antarctica, and documentation of Cloud Car, a public artwork in which a cloud of steam and mist surrounds a Ford Taurus station wagon.

Polli represented the Environment 2.0 programme at a launch event for the Futuresonic 2009 programme in January 2009 at Transmediale in Berlin, which also featured Usman Haque and Drew Hemment.

Polli also is participating in the Environment 2.0 Open Lab unconference event on Saturday 16 May.

Cloud Car

A public artwork in which a cloud of steam and mist surrounds a Ford Taurus station wagon, enveloping the car and driver. The car is fitted with special effects equipment that emits water vapour. Mist bars, hoses, pumps and other hardware are attached underneath, on top of the rack, and on the sides of the car (allowing doors to open). Hoses are attached to a water pump designed especially for the mist system. The project makes emissions in the air tangible and visible, and leads us to consider the consequences of our love affair with the automobile: polluted air, dangerous roads, noise and congestion.

Sonic Antarctica 

Sonic Antarctica is an audio-visual installation made by Polli following a seven week visit to Antarctica during the 2007/2008 season. The installation uses natural and industrial field recordings, sonifications of science data and interviews with weather and climate scientists. The areas recorded include: the ''Dry Valleys" (77°30′S 163°00′E) on the shore of McMurdo Sound, 3,500 km due south of New Zealand, the driest and largest relatively ice-free area on the continent completely devoid of terrestrial vegetation. Another is the geographic South Pole (90°00′S), the centre of a featureless flat white expanse, on top of ice nearly nine miles thick.

Biography

Andrea Polli is a digital media artist living in New Mexico.  Her work addresses issues related to science and technology in contemporary society. She is interested in global systems, the real time interconnectivity of these systems, and the effect of these systems on individuals.  Polli's work with science, technology and media has been presented widely in over 100 presentations, exhibitions and performances internationally including the Whitney Museum of American Art Artport and The Field Museum of Natural History, and has been recognised by numerous grants, residencies and awards including UNESCO. Polli is currently an Associate Professor in Fine Arts and Engineering at The University of New Mexico.

www.andreapolli.com