MILK is an artistic mapping project, which, by using GPS (Global Positioning Systems) technologies, maps out possibilities of time & space representation in individual routes of several small-scale Latvian milk farms and of milk transportation throughout Europe. It is a cooperation project between artist Esther Polak (NL) and researcher Ieva Auzina (LV).

MILK is based on AmsterdamREALTIME http://www.waag.org/realtime. A diary in tracks, a project which was initiated by Esther Polak and developed in cooperation with the Waag Society http://www.waag.org/realtime and artist Jeroen Kee.

Geography of MILK frames currently shifting EU terrain: from a destitute Latvian corner - Latgale, where the milk is produced as far as Netherlands and other EU countries, where the same milk is being consumed.

By turning collected GPS data into on-line atlas of maps, Ieva Auzina and Esther Polak in collaboration with software developer Markus The (NL) and RIXC would like to discover this peculiar milk net, its explicitly local stories and complex euro-global dimensions.

Prix Ars Electronica 2005, Golden Nica Interactive Art

Extended Run 7. 9. - 18. 9.

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