The Drilling Consortium behind the Polar Circle, Tromsø, NO

an interdiscipliinary round table focussing on artistic, scientific and technological parameter of deep earth and ice investigation
The Round Table is initiated by the Researchraft FFUR in cooperation with the Tromsø Kunstforening.
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................pictures above: from left to right, ice photography from Ola Brandt, NPI // Agnes Meyer-Brandis, SGM-Iceberg-Probe // ice core drilling from the web, source unknown //
Agnes Meyer-Brandis, IceBit Sketch

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The Drilling Consortium - subterranean and subglacial research from artistic, technological and scientific point of view
documentation click here
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Draft outline of the round table / content:
The drilling consortium will debatte different methods, tools, ethics and aims to approach unknown deep earth and ice territories and their discoveries. The history of the earth is engraved within its very own substance. One just has to unearth them and learn to see and read it. The changing colors within the layers of rock deep down below, the captured million year old athmospheres within million year old ice cores ... once recovered, the history of the earth can be read at as an open book, but every text needs to be decrypted and interpreted to be understood. The drilling consort gathers a group of experts of different fields together, (artistcic , technological, economical and scientific), allowing to share different interpretations of the hidden.

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"Snow cristals are hyroglyphes sent down from heaven."
quotation from Ukichiro Nakaya, snow flake photographer, Inscription in the book “Snow Crystals”, 1954,
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Participants:
- Torgeir Bjelvin, senior geologist from oil company Discover
- Helgard Anschütz, glaciologist, researcher, Norwegian Polar Insitute NPI, Tromsø, Norway
- Agnes Meyer-Brandis, artist, director Researchraft FFUR, Germany
- Talk master: Svein Ingvoll Pedersen, intendant / director Tromsø kunstforening / Tromsø Gallery of Contemporary Art

After the presentations, there will be time for questions, thoughts and open discussion to themes arising from the symposium.
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Date : 13th November, 2008, 19pm - 21pm
Location: Tromsø Kunstforening / Tromsø Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tromsø, Norway