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 element in her work. Classically trained as a painter, Polak sought a contemporary way to represent our economic relationship with the landscape. Milk, her project with Ieva Auzina, followed the journey of Latvian milk from the cow to the Dutch consumer using the GPS navigation system.
www.beelddiktee.nl
www.MILKproject.net
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Artistic activities:
2005 - Ars Electronica, Milk presentation, Cyberspace exhibition, Linz, Austria; Luidt De Zuidpoort, sound project on location, Delft, the Netherlands; presentation of Milk at Making Things Public exhibition, Zentrum Für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) Karlsruhe, Germany
2004 - Presentation of Milk, Kasteel Groeneveld, Baarn, the Netherlands; Agrovak, Den Bosch, the Netherlands, and Agriculture Ministers’ Council, Brussels; ‘Nationaalbeelddictee: Kijken Naar De Zee’ radio project for Stroom (Kunstenfietswerk.nl), Scheveningen, the Netherlands
2003 - Realtime Riga, RIXC Art + Communication Festival, Riga, Latvia; Milk pilot, Locative Media Workshop, Riga-Kraslova-Karosta, Latvia; Kijken In De Stad lecture evening for Stroom, the Hague
2002 - Amsterdam Realtime: A Diary in Traces, project for Gemeentearchief, Amsterdam, in cooperation with Waag Society
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 ...
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 ...