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Dutch artist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Esther Polak (born 1962) is a Dutch visual artist. She is active in the new media field and was one of the first artists to experiment with GPS. Since 2010, Polak has worked full-time with Ivar van Bekkum as an artist duo PolakVanBekkum. She lives and works in Amsterdam.
Esther Polak studied painting at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (1981-1986) and then mixed media at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (1986-1989).
Her interest lies in capturing movement in a landscape. Polak gained notoriety with her "locative media" projects, such as Amsterdam RealTime (collaboration with Waag Society and Jeroen Kee),[1] MILKproject[2] (collaboration with researcher Ieva Auzina and RIXC) and NomadicMILK. These projects use GPS to arrive at a contemporary landscape representation.[3]
In addition to using GPS, Google Earth as an artistic medium plays a vital role in her video work. Unlike other 3D worlds, Google Earth represents a 1-to-1 relationship with the world as we know it, and this representation also carries a political, social, and economic reality.[4] Video works using Google Earth include A Collision of Sorts (2017), Going To Be/Go Move Be (2018) and The Ride/The Ride (2019).
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