Persistence of Vision: Antarctica

美国国家科学基金会管理着美国南极计划，该计划协调美国在最南端大陆和南大洋的所有研究。这个项目有可能让广大观众认识到由美国国家科学基金会支持的南极研究项目对国家的重要性，以及现代科学如何超越一个世纪前科学探索的“英雄时代”。南极艺术家和作家计划的目的是让少数不同学科的专业艺术家亲自体验南极研究，以便使用非技术媒体解释科学，让广大公众可以接触到，目的是提高美国国家科学基金会支持的科学的知名度和欣赏程度。这个项目的目的是在美国的科学博物馆中创造一个创造性的舞台。虚拟接触?20世纪之交英勇探险时代的科学探险家和当代科学家之间的对比，让参与者对两个时代进行比较和对比。这种媒介将允许潜在的参与者以一种新的、独特的、新鲜的、引人入胜的方式探索这些材料，使他们沉浸在体验中，并在一个世纪前的科学研究与今天的科学研究之间找到相似之处和区别。美国国家科学基金会提供进入美国南极计划在南极洲的活动，但不为这项工作提供资金。

The National Science Foundation manages the U.S. Antarctic Program, which coordinates all U.S. research on the southernmost continent and in the Southern Ocean. This project has the potential to create an appreciation in a wide audience about the national importance of the research program supported by NSF in the Antarctic and the ways in which modern science has advanced over its antecedents in the "Heroic Era" of scientific exploration a century ago.The purpose of the Antarctic Artists & Writers program is allow a very small number of professional artists across a variety of disciplines to experience that research first-hand in order to use non-technical media interpret the science in that are accessible to a broad swath of the general public, with the goal of increasing visibility and appreciation for the science NSF supports.The aim of this project is to create installations in the United States science museums that creatively stage ?virtual encounters? between scientific explorers of the Heroic Age of exploration at the turn of the 20th century and contemporary scientists, allowing participants to compare and to contrast the two eras.This medium will allow prospective participants to explore this material in a new, distinct, fresh and engaging way that immerses them in the experience and that draws parallels and distinctions between science, as it was conducted a century ago and how it is carried out today.The National Science Foundation provides access to US Antarctic Program activities in Antarctica but does not provide funding for this work.