Polar Outreach Catalogue

Arctic Dialogues is a small scale, but focussed collaboration initially between art and science, undertaken in tandem with a UK NERC funded IPY project (ARCPOP) investigating atmospheric pollutants in the snow pack. Terms like investigating, experimenting, measuring, sampling and observing describe essential activities for both the artist and scientist in the field and studio or laboratory, though the application of the methodologies yield very different results. It is in the recognition of this level of commonality in process that there is the potential to enable the artist and the scientist to engage with each other's work with an equal curiosity. The knowledge transfer that ensues benefits both artist and scientist in provoking new ways of engaging and has the potential to be significant for different and diverse audiences through its hybrid nature.