Tristan Duke Glacial Optics /anglais - Couverture rigide

Duke, Tristan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 13 : 9798890181152

Editeur : Radius Books, 2026

Synopsis

Using camera lenses made of Arctic ice, Tristan Duke's ongoing, experimental photographic project, Glacial Optics, explores our current moment of climate crisis.

In the spring of 2022, artist Tristan Duke set sail for the Arctic Island of Svalbard, the fastest-warming place on the planet. His goal was to craft functioning camera lenses from the very ice of the glaciers. Through melting ice lenses, Duke captured portraits of an Arctic landscape in quiet turmoil. These ephemeral lenses became the foundation for a photographic series imagining the "gaze of the glazier" as a means of confronting the global climate emergency.

On returning from the Arctic, Duke turned his ice-lens camera to document massive wildfires raging across the American West -- bringing the melting glaciers to bear witness to the smoke and fire of the Anthropocene.

Next, Duke traveled the country visiting labs where scientists study glacier ice for clues to better predict our climate future. By laying ice core samples directly on large sheets of photo paper, Duke created photograms, distilling the concept of the ice lens into formal studies of light moving through ice.

Glacial Optics includes essays by Lucy R. Lippard, Mark Cheetham, William L. Fox, and Brandee Caoba, with a foreword from Michael Govan, as well as the artist's field notes and original research chronicling the unlikely history of ice lenses.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Tristan Duke is a Los Angeles-based artist working in photography, holography, video, installation, and other experimental media. With a special interest in light, optics, and visual perception, Duke’s work explores how we seek knowledge about ourselves and the world. Duke’s work often incorporates technologies and processes of his own invention, such as his Glacial Optics project: using camera lenses made from ice to explore the glacier as a literal and poetic lens through which to understand our times. 

As the recipient of the 2023/2024 LACMA Art and Technology Lab Grant, Duke is continuing to build on his Glacial Optics Series, exploring cutting edge science on and in the glaciers –with partners including the National Science Foundation’s Ice Core Facility (NSF-ICF), the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC), The Nevada Museum of Art Center for Art + Environment, and many others. Duke has pioneered numerous holographic technologies, including creating the first ever 3D hologram vinyl records. He has created original hologram artwork for many albums and soundtrack releases ranging from Jack White to Guns ‘n Roses and Star Wars, earning him a Clio Award in 2016. His holographic album artwork has been featured on the Tonight Show, and in Rolling Stone, Forbes, The Verge, Gizmodo and many more. 

From 2010-2023 Duke worked in collaboration with artists Lauren Bon and Rich Nielsen, forming the Optics Division of the Metabolic Studio, a collective project seeking to recontextualizing photography as a land-based medium and social practice. He has shared his work internationally, with exhibitions and public talks at institutions including the MIT Media Lab, the Getty Museum, the Santa Fe Institute, Tamarind Institute, the de Young Museum, the Exploratorium, RISD, C|O Berlin, LACMA, MASS MoCA, and many others. 

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Radius Books
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798890181152
• Reliure: Tapa dura
• Nombre de pages: 180
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible