Hugarflug annual conference on artistic research
11. - 12. September 2025
Iceland University of the Arts
This paper examines satellite imagery and unstable environmental documentation of Antarctica's changing landscape amid climate breakdown. I will explore using my research and artistic practice how technological limitations and glitches in non-human visioning systems create new narratives about our relationship with remote environments.
My research investigates how imagery of these landscapes formulate a unique language for understanding our human agency, revealing collapsing planetary systems across distances, data, and time scales. Within my practice technological "slippages" and "errors" are positioned as valuable disruptions that enhance our understanding rather than diminish.
The research demonstrates how remote sensing methods provide access to the real-time acceleration of the Anthropocene, creating meaning precisely when technological instability fails to grasp environmental complexity. It develops strategies for interpreting environmental imaging data to reveal new narrative possibilities.
As new technology transform environmental monitoring, the work addresses how artists can leverage these for new dialogues and visualisations. By examining glitches in Antarctic ice imagery, I contribute to planetary discourse and offers alternative approaches to visualising remote environments under constantly changing and unstable systems
Liberty Quinn
Multi-disciplinary artist