Milk Milk Lemonade

unique edition
interactive online / video installation - milkmilklemonade.net
2001 commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art

Milk Milk Lemonade was commissioned as part of the Whitney Bitstreams show in 2001. It has shown in Brooklyn at the Mastel + Mastel gallery and in Caracas Venezuela as part of Fundacion Polar.

The original version utilized 3 cameras which tracked viewers movements through a stairwell and in turn controlled online graphical content with their movements. It also featured a live graffiti-style chat wall that allowed online visitors to make comments and post thoughts in real-time to the museum visitors. All of this text is archived.

In later versions of the work, the text-wall became dominant and took on a particularly significant meaning after September 11th. The work was shown in Brooklyn just two days before Sept. 11th - then in Venezuela on Sept. 25th.

Baldwin is creating a 'before and after' project that is made up of visitors thoughts and words before and after the event.



*video tracking programming by HITLAB at University of Washington