Project:
Milk Project, Esther Polak & Ieva Auzina with RIXC, Riga Centre for New Media Culture
When artist Esther Polak and researcher Ieva Auzina discovered that much Latvian milk is transported to the Netherlands, they decided to follow its progress from the cow’s udder to the consumer’s mouth using GPS navigation. Their installation received the prestigious Golden Nica new-media prize and is now on display in the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany, as part of the exhibition Making Things Public.
Interview:
The Long Road from the Farm
Esther Polak & Ieva Auzina with RIXC, Riga Centre for New Media Culture, Milk
For two years, artist Esther Polak carried a compass to help her find her way around in Amsterdam. Since then, spatial awareness has been the ... person: Esther Polak
For two years, artist Esther Polak carried a compass to help her find her way around Amsterdam. Since then, spatial awareness has been the core ... person: Ieva Auzina
At a locative-media workshop in Riga, Latvia, researcher Ieva Auzina and artist Esther Polak came up with the Milk project. It used the GPS ...
about us:
Behind the Scene #01
This website was launched in conjunction with the exhibition Behind the Scene #01, held 5-10 April 2006, during the 2006 Salone Internazionale ... "Really, everyone needs their own map. Everyone has their own spatial pattern, their own view of reality."
Esther Polak “I wondered how to represent our economic relationship with the landscape, and realised I could use new technology."
Esther Polak Credits
Project:
Industrialized Wood, Jeroen Verhoeven/Demakersvan
Jeroen Verhoeven of Demakersvan used drawings of seventeenth-century furniture to make his Industrialized Wood table. He converted different ...
Interview:
The Smell of the Landscape
Birthe Leemeijer, L’Essence de Mastenbroek
Designing a perfume for Mastenbroek, a late-medieval Dutch polder in the province of Overijssel where many cattle farmers make their homes and ... "We have to see to it that machines start working for us again, instead of allowing ourselves to be led by them."
Jeroen Verhoeven, Demakersvan
Project:
L’Essence de Mastenbroek, Birthe Leemeijer
Artist Birthe Leemeijer has created a perfume that expresses life on a Dutch polder through the medium of scent. Working closely with local ... "We want to aesthetically educate the average person. That’s why we’re looking at producing in India."
Jeroen Verhoeven, Demakersvan
Interview:
Making It as a Team
Jeroen Verhoeven/Demakersvan, Industrialized Wood
Imagine being fresh out of art school and selling your work to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, a firm of architects in Los Angeles, a ... "The fragrance not only calls forth associations you can immediately name, like hay, milk and cattle, it also tries to evoke an idea of space and the sensation of cold wind."
Birthe Leemeijer "I’d rather develop a work on location, with others, preferably so that the collaboration takes on meaning within the work itself."
Birthe Leemeijer "It takes time to set up my cameras. That means more spontaneous pictures. When people pose for a long time, they eventually relax."
Rob Hornstra
Interview:
Fast Forward
Ivan Kasner, Petrifying
Starting off your design career with objects that can last tens of thousands of years: that was Ivan Kasner's daring choice for his graduation ...