InterANTARCTICA is a installation produced, designed and directed by Caitilin de Berigny and created by a team of artists. InterANTARCTICA provides a technological platform for the public to interact, experience and gain vital knowledge about climate change. The concept is focused on the largest ice mass on Planet Earth, Antarctica. Our motivation stems from an urgency to understand, what has been labelled humanity's greatest challenge and our greatest threat: climate change.

Entering the exhibition space, the viewer is surrounded by a three-screen video installation of the Antarctica landscape. The viewer hears Antarctic compositions, created by other viewers in real-time interaction. InterANTARCTICA relies on viewer-interaction, where the viewer controls and creates sound. By creating sound the viewer engages in an additional interaction by modifying a visualization. InterANTARCTICA helps viewers understand critical scientific data through a multi-sensory experience (sound, sight, touch).

InterAntarctic Team:

Dr Caitilin de Bérigny Producer, Designer, Director and Curator

Nathaniel Fay Video and Multimedia Artist

Drew Cosgrove Web Developer

Michael Bates Sound Designer and Composer

Patrick Wong 3D Model Designer and Animator

Emma Chee 3D Model Designer

Kuan-Yu Kevin Chen Sound Designer and Interaction Artist

Martin Tomitsch Interaction Design

Eric Neo Interaction Programmer

Suna Rizalar 3D Texture Designer

Lucy Ro Interaction Artist

Florence Sze-To 3D Texture Designer

Julia Tang Web Designer and Content Manager

Exhibitions:

2010 | InterANTARCTICA: The Tasmanian Museum and Gallery, National Gallery of Hobart, Australia.  

2010 | InterANTARCTICA: Performance Space, Carriage Works, Sydney, Australia.   

2009 | InterANTARCTICA: Canberra School of Art Gallery, ANU.   

2009 | InterANTARCTICA: Tin Sheds, The University of Sydney, Australia.

Publications:

2010 | de Bérigny, C., & Tomitsch, M., InterANTARCTICA: Making Climate Change Tangible, 8th International Conference on Arts and Humanities, published peer-reviewed conference proceedings, First Author, Hawaii, USA.

2009 | de Bérigny, C., & Wang, X., InterANTARCTICA Tangible User Interface for Museum Based Interaction, The International Journal of Virtual Reality, 8(1): 17-26, First Author.

2008 | de Bérigny, C. & Wang, X. A Museum Installation based on an Augmented Reality System, International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment, published peer-reviewed conference proceedings, First Author, Athens, Greece

Grants:

2012-2014 | SyReNs The Sydney Network on Climate Change and Society ($360,000)