Persistence of Vision: Antarctica

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。这个项目有可能在广泛的受众中创造出对NSF支持的南极研究计划的国家重要性的欣赏，以及现代科学在一个世纪前科学探索的“英雄时代”中如何超越它的前辈的方式。作家计划是允许不同学科的极少数专业艺术家第一手体验研究，以便使用非技术媒体解释科学，对广大公众来说是可以接触到的，目的是增加对NSF支持的科学的可见度和鉴赏力。该项目的目的是在美国科学博物馆创造装置，创造性地上演？虚拟相遇？20世纪之交英勇探索时代的科学探险家和当代科学家之间的联系，允许参与者比较和对比这两种记忆。这种媒介将允许潜在的参与者以一种新的、独特的、新鲜的和引人入胜的方式探索这种材料，使他们沉浸在体验中，并在一个世纪前进行的科学和今天的科学之间画出相似和区别。美国国家科学基金会提供访问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.