INSTRUMENT | One Antarctic Night is exhibiting to thousands of attendees at the SIGGRAPH 2018 Art Gallery. Our team, aided by SIGGRAPH student volunteers, worked to install IOAN for the August 12th opening. Visitors are able to be immersed in the virtual world to remix the...
The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) will be holding its 45th annual conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques, known as SIGGRAPH 2018, in Vancouver, British Columbia from August 12th through the 16th. The five day conference showcases a broad spectrum of emerging technologies, research, and...
INSTRUMENT: One Antarctic Night is a vibrant, ongoing art + science collaboration including interactive virtual artists, composers, data visualization specialists, science communicators, designers, producers, educators, instrument builders, programmers, computer scientists, physicists, astronomers and astrophysicists in the U.S., Chile, Australia, and Antarctica. Meet our interdisciplinary team: Ruth...
From discovering the rings of Supernova 1987A during his time at the European Southern Observatory (Garching, Germany) to pioneering supernova spectropolarimetry in Texas, Lifan Wang has followed his passion for cosmology around the world. Wang is the director of the Chinese Center for Antarctic Astronomy (CCAA)...
Antarctica is more like interstellar space than any other place on earth. It is extremely cold, dry, calm, and extra dark with clear seeing to great cosmic distances. As a result, a telescope just a few meters tall near the South Pole can make observations...
The computer scientists working on INSTRUMENT: One Antarctic Night view programming as an art form. They are also versed in the language of statistics, and they provide a valuable translation for the team. Theirs is the task of designing a data engine that allows for both graphic rendering...
INSTRUMENT: One Antarctic Night is a suite of data instruments that use data from hundreds of thousands of stars captured by robotic telescopes in Antarctica. The interactive, and immersive aesthetic data experience will provide visitors the opportunity to explore characteristics of the stars seen above...
INSTRUMENT: One Antarctic Night obtained more than one million data files and optical data images of the night sky over the South Pole, and the team is building an interactive, immersive art + science experience that allows people to interact with star data through sound, movement, and...
The soundtrack of today’s BBC World Service Discovery podcast episode “Sounds of Space: Deep Space” uses data from CSTAR telescopes sonified by Andrew Blanton as part of the data-sound project “INSTRUMENT: One Antarctic Night,” an interactive artwork currently under collaborative development by a team of...
We presented a talk about our art+science collaboration and the project at the AST3 2015 Conference! AST3 is the International Collaboration Meeting on Antarctic Survey Telescopes and is being held in Hong Kong, March 9 - 11, 2015. Our talk focused on the concepts motivating our...