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Research Background: Sky Lab was an exhibition of speculative works about our relationship to outer space and sky-situated knowledge by nine national and international artists including Sam Leach and Harry Nankin curated by Dr Felicity Spear. Artists have long directed their gaze skywards and speculated about what lies beyond the clouds. While stars and planets are clearly visible with the naked eye on cloudless nights away from cities, during the day the scattering of daylight obscures their presence. Artists such as David Stephenson and Thomas Ruff have created photographs of the traces and movement of stars across the night sky, while artists from John Constable to Berndnaut Smilder have represented the sky by day. Research Contribution: 66.0667N 18.6600W 21/06/2012-22/06/2012 (Midnight Sun) was created following an artist residency in Iceland and references a specific location north of the Arctic Circle during midsummer where there is 24-hour daylight and the celestial phenomena of the night sky cannot be seen. My aim in this work was to reveal an impossible view of the day and night sky simultaneously using traditional and new technology. I achieved this by superimposing images from the iPhone App Night Sky over six panoramic photographs of the Icelandic landscape/skyscape to create a between-space, neither fully dark nor fully light in order to make visible the invisible. Research Significance: 66.0667N 18.6600W 21/06/2012-22/06/2012 (Midnight Sun) was created following a competitively applied for artist residency in Iceland funded by an Australia Council New Work Grant (Established Artist). The work is shortlisted for the National Works on Paper Award 2014 May 2014 under the title Midnight Sun.

研究背景：由费利西蒂·斯皮尔博士（Dr Felicity Spear）策展，汇集萨姆·利奇（Sam Leach）、哈里·南金（Harry Nankin）等9位国内外艺术家思辨性创作的展览“天空实验室（Sky Lab）”，聚焦人类与外层空间及天域知识的关联。长久以来，艺术家们始终将目光投向苍穹，思索云层之外的宇宙奥秘。在远离城市的无云夜晚，星辰与行星可通过裸眼清晰观测，但白日里日光的散射效应会遮蔽它们的踪迹。诸如大卫·斯蒂芬森（David Stephenson）与托马斯·拉夫（Thomas Ruff）等艺术家创作了记录星辰在夜空轨迹与运行的摄影作品，而从约翰·康斯特布尔（John Constable）到伯恩德诺特·斯米尔德（Berndnaut Smilder）的一众艺术家，则以创作表现白日天空的作品。
研究成果：作品《66.0667N 18.6600W 2012年6月21日-22日（午夜太阳）》创作于冰岛艺术家驻留项目期间，其创作原型为北极圈以北的特定仲夏区域——该区域存在24小时日照，无法观测夜空的天体现象。本作品的创作初衷，是依托传统与新兴技术，同时呈现白日与夜空这一不可能共存的视觉图景。创作者通过将iPhone应用《Night Sky》的星空图像，叠加于6张冰岛地貌/天空全景摄影作品之上，营造出介于明暗之间的临界空间，以此将不可见的天体现象具象化。
研究意义：《66.0667N 18.6600W 2012年6月21日-22日（午夜太阳）》依托澳大利亚委员会新晋艺术家创作资助金（Australia Council New Work Grant (Established Artist)），通过竞争性申请获得冰岛艺术家驻留项目资格后创作完成。该作品于2014年5月以《午夜太阳》为题，入围2014年度全国纸上作品奖（National Works on Paper Award）。