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| Development Schedule: March - July 2008 finalizing robot development July 2008 - July 2009 data collection Nigeria Aug. 2009- Oct. 2009 finalizing installation Oct. 2009-Nov. 2009 (International) Presentations at venues and festivals For details please contact info(at)nomadicmilk.net Upcoming events: NomadicMILK Cameroon version Will be on show at the International Biënale Update II 20 April - 6 July Gent, Belgium Past events 2008: 8 Feb. presentation CEDC/CML Maroua, Cameroonworkshop “People and pixels” and combined fieldwork Waza Logone Floodplain Past events 2007: -Nov. 29 Co-ops:book- and work-in-progress presentation at Scheltema/Lakenhal, Leiden, NL.-Sept 23 - Nov. 25 Exhibition UN/FAIR Trade at Neue Galerie Graz, AT see film reportage -Aug. 12 Presentation at Jongensdromen Peergroup Veenhuizen-June 28-30 Co-ops: presentation of work-in-progress BAK/Zonneburg, Utrecht, NL -June 4-6Robot developing workshop at Peergroup -May 21 Upgrade! Amsterdam Presentation of robot and reseachtrip filmthe online videoregistration of this evening can be found on fabchannel by searching for Upgrade! Past events 2006: -19 Nov.-22 Dec. Research trip Nigeria activities: *presentation about the project on the international conference on the future of transhumance pastoralism in west and central Africa, November 20-24 Abuja *meet and find our Nigerian counterpart *meet Fulani families in Jos region *research/travel with Wamco transporters For a filmed reportage follow this link to You Tube If you like to receive a DVD of the film, please send us a mail! -2 dec.Kick-off Co-ops & website BAK, Utrecht (NomadicMILK was present by mobile phone from Nigeria) -Nov.24 Docs online presentation of Esther Polak on MILKproject and NomadicMILK -Okt 12 Conference ‘Mediawijsheid’ NomadicMILK has been presented in the afternoon sessionas one of the ‘best practice projects’ -June 6 Mobile habits at Virtual Platform in Amsterdam
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Nomadic MILK, Esther Polak and team Esther Polak (1962) studied graphic art and mixed media and is interested in how technology determines (visual) perception. In this context she explores the visual and documentary possibilities of GPS. Her AmsterdamREALTIME project (2002) was one of the first large-scale art explorations in GPS (Global Positioning System) mapping. Ten inhabitants of Amsterdam carried per week a GPS tracer with them. Their routes through town were made visible on a projection screen in the exhibition space. The traces on screen form an alternative, highly personal map of the city. This was a joint project of Esther Polak, Waag Society and Jeroen Kee In 2004-2005 she developed MILKproject. In this project a European dairy transportation was followed from the udder of the (Latvian) cow, to the mouth of the (Dutch) consumer. All people who played a role in this chain received, for a day, a GPS-device that registered their movements. The team developed a lucid visualization-software for these traces, and let the participants react upon them in their own kitchens or living rooms. MILKproject tells the personal life-stories of these very different Europeans, from the Latvian farmer to the Dutch open-air market salesman with his clients, who are all connected by one thing: the milk from a truck of one Latvian milk collector. This was a project of Esther Polak, Ieva Auzina and Rixc, Riga center of new media culture. In her projects Polak manages to strip GPS of its nerdy riffraff, and instead uses the technology for making comprehensible visualizations and telling human stories. Esther Polak is represented by Foundation Beelddiktee Team: CO-OP’s
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