"Far Field" will be a visually appealing book with numerous rich colour images. It offers cutting edge ideas - a new way to think about the issues surrounding climate change. There is inclusion of fascinating first person accounts of projects at the Poles. "Far Field" is a collection of essays in contemporary cultural studies combined with interview and diary excerpts exploring some of the most significant artistic, scientific, technological and philosophical interpretations of the Poles over the past decade. This volume seeks to explore the transformation of cultural understandings of the unique position and rapidly changing environments of the North and South Poles through digital technology.

Andrea Polli is associate professor of film and media at the University of New Mexico. She is a digital artist whose work addresses science and technology in contemporary society.

Jane Marsching is associate professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Chapter 1: Introduction - Jane D. Marsching and Andrea Polli

Chapter 2: Every New Thing: The Evolution of Artistic Technologies in the Antarctic, or How Land Arts Came to the Ice - William L. Fox

Chapter 3: Magnets of the Fantastic: The North Pole Observed - Jane D. Marsching

Chapter 4: Pages From The Book of the Unknown Explorer - Judit Hersko

Chapter 5: Antarctic Diaries Excerpt - Simon Faithfull

Chapter 6: Ground Truth [Focus: The Antarctic Dry Valleys] - Andrea Polli

Chapter 7: London Fieldworks: Polaria Fieldwork and Installation - Jo Joelson and Bruce Gilchrist

Chapter 8: Disappearing Ice and Missing Data: Climate Change in the Visual Culture of the Polar Regions - Lisa E. Bloom and Elena Glasberg

Chapter 9: Between Ecotopia and Ecotage: Polar Media - Peter Krapp

Chapter 10: Nonorganic Life: Frequency, Virtuality and the Sublime in Antarctica - Susan Ballard

Chapter 11: Inhabiting the Extreme or Making Antarctica Familiar - Annick Bureaud

Chapter 12: Voices, Lines, Cracks and Data-Sets: Formations of a New 'Idea of the Canadian North' - Leslie Sharpe

Chapter 13: Airspace [Focus: McMurdo Station, Antarctica] - Andrea Polli

Chapter 14: Systemness: Towards a Data Aesthetics of Climate Change - Tom Corby