Climate change is a defining issue of our time. ICE-TIME is an immersive, multi‑projection video and 3D sound installation combining art, science, and technology. The artwork is a creative response to the accelerating changes we are observing in Earth's ecosystem, examining polar ice as the most visible yet inaccessible indicator of climate change.

Six projections and a 9.1surround soundscape occupy a room-sized environment of translucent screens. The hexagonal structures of ice molecules and 4D tesseract projections are formal elements in the visual design of the work that allow embodied participation in the installation by engaging proprioceptions and synaesthesia in a somatic montage. The 3D soundscape is composed of field recordings of live ice, creating a circulating, immersive audio environment. The video imagery combines digital 4K video recorded in Greenland with data from our scientific collaborators. The film creates a poetic-scientific portrait of ice through time‑lapse photography, micro‑photography, satellite images, and contact audio recordings.

The glaciological provides a glimpse of deep-time as a supra-dimensional force – a four-dimensional perspective that subsumes both past and future and whose scope far exceeds human perception. ICE-TIME creates a hyper-dimensional portrait of ice, from vast glaciers to individual crystals, revealing the phenomenon of ice through contrasting physical scales and speeds of observation as it distills contemporary culture’s psychic moment of a data-driven reality. The stark iconography of polar ice serves as a distinct access point into the overwhelming complexity of climate change and its ramifications. The installation establishes a somatic interaction of form and content through the vivid, material presence of image, sound, data, and time. The empirical contact with accelerating glacial time imbues the spectator with an implicit awareness of the essential role ice plays in anthropogenic climate change.