Keith Hartwig (MDes ’19)

This project will reveal the entanglement of cold-producing technologies and the climate/environment. It will highlight the precarious nature and absurdity of trying to preserve the cryosphere within “Arks of the Apocalypse” by bringing people into closer dialogue with the substance of the cryosphere itself: ice (Malia Wollan, “Arks of the Apocalypse ,” New York Times, July 13, 2017). On May 8–10, 2018, a de-accessed ice core from the NSF-ICF will be publicly exhibited in Cambridge, Massachusetts. During the exhibition, the ice, disconnected from its life-support system, will slowly melt. Following NSF protocol, meltwater from the core will be saved as an oxygen/hydrogen analytical standard.