INTRO
Together with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar Research we created an interactive installation for the MOSAiC expedition in which hundreds of scientists from 19 nations are working on the POLARSTERN icebreaker and be frozen in the Arctic ice for one whole year
A large, glowing ice floe is projected onto the floor and accompanied by atmospheric arctic sounds. When the visitors enter the floe, the movement of their feet crackles and breaks the ice underneath them. As they move through the projection, they pull a trail of light behind them and expose the underlying water that slowly closes after a while
The installation was originally developed for the boarding of the captain and the expedition leader at the farewell event of the MOSAiC expedition in Tromsø, Norway, but has been extended and showcased at other occasions as well
Key challenges
glowing ice floe floor projection
footstep-reactive ice cracking effect
arctic expedition archive footage
Before the icebreakers’ cast off, the POLARSTERN facade was turned into a projection canvas that combined atmospheric polar research footage and animations with historical archive material from the legendary Fram expedition. At the end, the data to be collected by the expedition, to better understand the global climate, was previsualized in an abstract simulation.
CREDITS
Created by Xenorama ( Lorenz Potthast , Marcel Bückner , Moritz Richartz , Richard Oeckel , Tim Heinze )
Support: Alperen Sahin , Simon Knop-Jacobsen