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Thesis Info
- LABS ID
- 00722
- Thesis Title
- CRYOSPHERE: Frozen in Time
- Author
- Christophe ivins
- E-mail
- ivinsc AT gmail.com
- 2nd Author
- 3rd Author
- Degree
- Master of Fine Arts - MFA
- Year
- 2018
- Number of Pages
- 28
- University
- University of California, Santa Cruz
- Thesis Supervisor
- Elliot W. Anderson
- Supervisor e-mail
- ewanders AT ucsc.edu
- Other Supervisor(s)
- Jeffrey Bury, David Dunn, Angus Forbes, Newton Harrison, Jennifer Parker
- Language(s) of Thesis
- English
- Department / Discipline
- Digital Arts and New Media
- Copyright Ownership
- Christopher ivins
- Languages Familiar to Author
- English
- URL where full thesis can be found
- escholarship.org/uc/item/0b9496f0
- Keywords
- Cryosphere, Glacier, Ice Sheet, Arctic, Polar, Alaska, Wyoming, California
- Abstract: 200-500 words
- CRYOSPHERE: Frozen in Time presents still and moving images, narrated by letters written to a past self, to articulate the encounter between the half-century-old artist and the two-and-a-half-million year old cryosphere, the solid water of Earth. Glaciers advance and recede. Memories of three short decades fast forward and rewind in funerary remembrance. The memoriam shows viewers an intimate, one-sided glimpse of love lost to a changing landscape. The three-screen installation offers a meditative space for considering ice sheets — now vanishing on a human time scale — and allows viewers to contemplate the coinciding deaths of humans and the cryosphere.