Today opening of a new group show “When Ideas Become Crime” at DEPO in Istanbul. I will show a new work called “The thing that grows by wiping out its past and present”, 2007-2010. It is an installation of 4 prints (30×45cm), custom software, computer, screen (22”).
Opening: Sep 1st, 2010 Wednesday, 18:00-21:00
Curator! Halil Altindere
Artists! .-_-. , Gülçin Aksoy, Nevin Aladağ, Hüseyin Alptekin, Anti-pop, Burak Arıkan, Caner Aslan, Volkan Aslan, Atılkunst, Vahap Avşar, Tufan Baltalar, Ramazan Bayrakoğlu, Bashir Borlakov, Canan, Aslı Çavuşoğlu, Burak Delier, Mehmet Dere, Ersan Deveci, Nazım Hikmet Dikbaş, Elçin Ekinci, Gökçe Erhan, İnci Furni, Murat Gök, Deniz Gül, Özlem Günyol & Mustafa Kunt, Nilbar Güreş, Altan Gürman, Hakan Gürsoytrak, Hazavuzu, iç mihrak, Gözde İlkin, Berat Işık, Gülsün Karamustafa, Ali Kazma, Levent Kunt, Can Kurucu, Ali Miharbi, Ahmet Öğüt, Suat Öğüt, Serkan Özkaya, Şener Özmen, İz Öztat, Nejat Satı, Erinç Seymen, Cengiz Tekin, İrem Tok, Nasan Tur, Nalan Yırtmaç.
In the post-millennial Internet, free communication is increasingly difficult, as is free critical discourse on global scales. What are the issues that are arising with the coming of international firewalls to free speech from increasingly oppressive border policies to electronic practices like “The Great Firewall of China”, which restricts political information from its residents? How can open dialogues on labor, human rights, freedom of speech, and global sustainability be maintained in a world in which the dreams of utopian free communication are being crushed by governments and corporations? How can we devise strategies to create spaces for free critical intervention?
Artists, writers, performers, engineers, designers, activists, squatters, videographers and more are invited to participate in the tactical media workshop at cura bodrum residency during June 11 to 20, 2010 in Bodrum, Turkey.
The workshop led by Arzu Ozkal and Patrick Lichty will introduce interventionist media art practices addressing contemporary issues in the public sphere. Burak Arıkan will introduce network mapping processes and tools. These will be done through a series of readings, discussions, activities, and labs. The goal is to understand and intervene in the symbolic order through various tactics and media, and to synthesize viable critical projects for creation at the workshop or after.
Application
Potential participants are asked to offer a short letter of intent and samples of work (media, text, documentation, articles) relating to the applicant’s interest in the workshop. People of all disciplines are invited to apply, as the discussion of all aspects of critical intervention (social, cultural, creative, technical, political, legal) are part of this event. The workshop will be facilitated in English.
While modest accommodations and some communal meals will be provided for the workshop participants, they will be required to cover travel costs to Bodrum and meal expenses.
Please send letter of intent and work samples by May 16th to the e-mail addresses listed below (CC all, please):
Arzu Ozkal is a Turkish-born artist who explores the concept of the body and its relation to social political discourses through videos, public interventions and performances. Currently, she serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Oberlin College, where she teaches, organizes events, and contributes to curriculum development in the Media Arts Department. Ozkal’s work has been exhibited broadly in exhibitions and festivals across the US and in many countries including Germany, Spain, France, Russia, and Turkey.
Patrick Lichty (b.1962) is a technologically-based conceptual artist, writer, independent curator, animator for the activist group, The Yes Men, and Executive Editor of Intelligent Agent Magazine. He began showing technological media art in 1989, and deals with works and writing that explore the social relations between us and media. Venues in which Lichty has been involved with solo and collaborative works include the Whitney & Turin Biennials, Maribor Triennial, Performa Performance Biennial, Ars Electronica, and the International Symposium on the Electronic Arts (ISEA). He is also an Assistant Professor of Interactive Arts & Media at Columbia College Chicago.
Burak Arıkan is an artist based in New York and Istanbul. His work confronts issues ranging from politics and economics to cultural sustainability in networked environments. His systems have been featured in online and onsite exhibitions in the form of prints, animation, software, and installations. Arıkan has presented his work internationally at institutions including Museum of Modern Art (New York), Neuberger Museum of Art (New York), Venice Biennale (Venice), Ars Electronica (Linz), Sonar (Barcelona), DEMF (Detroit) and at independent venues such as Art Interactive (Cambridge), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), Hafriyat (Istanbul), Club Phazon (Tokyo), FilmWinter (Stuttgart), Turbulence (online), Upgrade! International (online). He has lectured and did workshops at institutions including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rhode Island School of Design, New York University Interactive Telecommunications Program, Istanbul Technical University, Bogazici Universtiy, Sabanci University, and Istanbul Bilgi University.
cura bodrum residency is a self-organized initiative that hosts cultural producers for residencies, workshops, and conferences. It is located on the Aegean coast and aims to propose productive and critical uses for the touristic infrastructure off-season. In 2008 and 2009, we hosted one- month residencies, which aimed at bringing people from different backgrounds to reflect on is- sues of local relevance such as tourism, urbanization and migration. In 2010, cura bodrum will be hosting short and intensive workshops and welcomes proposals.
I will present recent work at the Free Fall Symposium tomorrow in Babylon Lounge, Istanbul. It is organized by Selda Asal of Apartment Project along with an exhibtion.
Other presenters of the session are: Jonah Brucker Cohen, “User Generated Social Structures (UGSS)” Kenneth Rogers, “Capital Implications” Chris Barr, “Caught You Looking: A Report from the Bureau of Workplace Interruptions”
Moderated by Brooke Singer.
Facebook User Labor Enactments is a new live performance by Ursula Endlicher which uses ULML code (=User Labor Markup Language) as choreography. In the performance on November 13, five performers and the audience will together shape the course of the show.
Using Burak Arikan’s newly developed ULML-based software application which collects user activity on Facebook, the performance will combine this online information as well as audience submitted ideas right on stage. The public is invited to add movement directions to a database which will be used by the dancers during the show. The audience can also try out their own movements of the ULML language!
Facebook User Labor Enactments is a collaborative event breaking down boundaries between user and consumer, performer and audience, and is driven by a continuous exchange between Web and body.
Credits: Concept / Stage layout / Video projection / Sound: Ursula Endlicher Web Programming: Ursula Endlicher, David Farine ULML/Facebook Application written and live feed: Burak Arikan ULML-movement-library: live feed by Ursula Endlicher – and the audience! Choreography: ULML-movement-library / live ULML code Performers: Robert Appleton, Shizu Homma, Laura Meyers, Ralph Meyers, Nancy Schwartz Production Assistance: Lee Day
Where:
The New School
66 West 12th, Room 404
New York, NY 10011
Will do a two day network mapping workshop with 30 NGOs from France and Turkey. This is the second meeting of the Civil Society Workshop series started in Istanbul May 2009, where NGOs made hands on network maps of their organizations and issues. After the Istanbul workshop, NGOs did research in their respective fields –such as human rights, migration, education– and collected relational data, which are then computed, analyzed and visualized to be discussed in the Paris workshop 19-20 September, 2009.
Anti-nuclear Movement Diagrams (first hand-made then computed) from the Istanbul Workshop, May 2009 (click on the image to enlarge):
The Civil Society Workshop aims that the NGOs working on the basis of advocacy with a rights based agenda in different fields in France and Turkey discover ways of collaboration on various levels with each other. During the workshops, strategic mapping exercise has been/will be used as the methodological tool to display the network of relations that the NGOs work within. At the end of this program, participants will be expected to be able to offer concrete suggestions on the ways their organizations could collaborate/work together with the counterpart organization in Turkey/France.
