Interview with a Glacier

July 1 – August 31, 2025
Saugerties Public Library
91 Washington Ave, Saugerties, NY 12477
Open during regular library hours

About the Exhibition

Interview with a Glacier invites you into a speculative dialogue with disappearing Arctic ice. Featuring photographs derived from 3D scans of icebergs captured during the artist’s journey to the Arctic Circle, this exhibition merges abstract digital artifacts with imagined topographies.

A sound component accompanies the visuals: visitors are invited to check out an MP3 player and headphones from the front desk to hear the “voice” of the iceberg — a soundscape generated through machine learning, using field recordings collected in the Arctic Circle in 2024.

Through this multi-sensory installation, artist ashley middleton invites you to consider what vanishing landscapes might say if we learned how to listen.

Special Features

• Free & Open to the Public

• MP3 Audio Experience available at the front desk

• Free Artwork to Take Home:
  Donate an old or unused frame to be used during the exhibition, and you’ll receive a piece of original artwork in return once the show concludes.

• Frame drop-off period: Now through June 5, 2025, at the Saugerties Library front desk. There’s no size limit, but please consider keeping frames reasonably sized so more participants can be included in the display.

After the show, you may pick up your frame with its new artwork, or allow it to be gifted forward.

Frame Pickup: August 24–30
All unclaimed frames will be donated after 12 PM on August 30.

This project has been generously supported by: