Bored-er at ButdoesitFloat.com, curated by Folkert Gorter & Atley G. Kasky. With a quote from Arthur C. Clarke:
“There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum”
TERMS & CONDITIONS (Facebook, MySpace, Google) exhibition view, 2009, Miami
“Terms & Conditions (Facebook, MySpace, Google)”, archival pigment print mounted on aluminum dibond, 60×82cm, 2007
Will be shown in the NON booth at NADA Art Fair Miami Beach 2009.
December 3 – 6, 2009
Booth #113
See more images here: http://burak-arikan.com/terms-conditions
I will present the User Labor project at the “User Labor: Creative Responses Panel”, Digital Labor Conference (Internet as Playground and Factory), New School University, NYC.
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.
User Labor presentation slides are below:
View more documents from Burak Arikan.
See the conference program here.
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
When:
Friday, November 13, 2009 at 6PM
More information on the conference “The Internet as Playground and Factory“.
More info on “Facebook User Labor Enactments“.
Register for the event/performance.
Read more about User Labor Markup Language.
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.
See the maps and presentations from the first workshop, Istanbul, May 2009
http://civilsocietydialogue.blogspot.com/
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.
Meta-Control performance at the 319 Scholes Launch Party in Bushwick. August 29, 2009. Performing with Sutekh’s live music.
Video above from Club Phazon, Tokyo, 2007.
This site does not have DDos attacks. Lets get busy here.
1. From now on the blog address blog.burak-arikan.com is burak-arikan.com/blog. All past permalinks work with redirection.
2. burak-arikan.com is now dynamic. Single UNIFIED RSS FEED for all the content. One love one feed. Be it a new project, new documentation, text, interview, talk, workshop, blog post, news item, announcement all streaming to you in a single feed. Update your feed eaters accordingly. http://burak-arikan.com/feed
3. Multilingual interface multilingual content. English / Turkish.
4. Currently in New York, hot and wet, will be in San Francisco second half of August. September, in Istanbul. I may stop by Venice first week. October, I will be serving for the Turkish Military. Yes this is real, this is mandatory. November, I will be at the conference, “Internet as a Playground and Factory“.
5. New works for 2010 started. Watch here or watch my machine readables elsewhere.
Two years ago at TimeWarp we performed the Meta-Control set for the first time. Since then it’s been developed further, practiced more, and forked to various versions. Today we will perform these fresh Meta-Control pieces at TimeWarp 09 on a bright LCD screen setup.
Also as part of the TimeWarp Festival we participated in the panel Forum Kreative Stadt where we discussed how Ali Demirel and I did long-distance collaboration while building the Meta-Control set. It was moderated by Bernd Fesel. Other participants included Gerfried Stocker of Ars Electronica, Kai Beiderwellen, Jochen Hörisch, Monika Fleischmann, and Wolfgang Strauss.
Photographs from last night’s image check at the venue.
If you are near New York this Friday by any chance, please stop by our show titled “New Media:Why” at Neuberger Museum of Art. I participate with MYPOCKET, other participants are Margot Lovejoy with her cybernetic confession booth, Douglas Irving Repetto with his humongous networked sound installation, and Paul Vanouse with his fantastic DNA racing “Latent Figure Protocol”. The show is curated by Jacqueline Shilkoff, associate Curator/New Media and the Digital Museum. Also see the preview on New York Times:
“‘New Media’: Brain Trees, DNA, Receipts … and Bells”, Susan Hodara, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/nyregion/westchester/08artwe.html
Above is a growing set on Flickr, starting with installation photos and will progress with the documentation of the show.
New Media: Why
March 15 – June 28, 2009
South GalleryNew Media: Why is the fifth in a series that explores aspects of technology-based art. The exhibition will investigate how artists use dynamic, interactive technologies to reveal the logic, structure, and beauty inherent in experimental, non-traditional applications. The exhibition will be presented in the South Gallery and online where audience participation is encouraged. Artists include Burak Arikan, Margot Lovejoy, Douglas Irving Repetto, and Paul Vanouse.
“MYPOCKET”, Burak Arikan
“Confess”, Margot Lovejoy
“Nearly Human”, Douglas Irving Repetto
“Latent Figure Protocol”, Paul VanouseNew Media: Why was curated by Jacqueline Shilkoff, Associate Curator/New Media and the Digital Museum.
Neuberger Museum of Art
Purchase College
735 Anderson hill road
Purchase, NY 10577-1400
New work, Ergenekon.tc will be exhibited by Deluks on February 18th 2009 Wednesday. Official announcement below:
Deluks 01:
Burak Arikan – Ergenekon.tcMusic: Baris K.
Opening: 18.02.2009 Wednesday 19.00
You can visit the exhibition on Thu – Fri – Sat between 17.00 – 20.00.“Every society has its diagram(s)”*
Ergenekon.tc shows the diagram of the society depicted in the 2455 page Ergenekon bill of indictment. Ergenekon is an illegal covert network found in Turkey, the lawsuit is in progress. Connections between the actors of Ergenekon including people, institutions, groups, places, theories, ideologies, and beliefs, together form a crack in Turkey. The complexity of this crack can not be explained with a single leader nor with a complete hierarchy. Ergenekon does not have a center, it is a decentralized network. Ergenekon network existed because it was able to diffuse in to hierarchical structures such as government and military organizations.
The Ergenekon.tc project does not look for a meaning in the complexity depicted by the Ergenekon bill of indictment, but signifies its complexity.
Ergenekon.tc combines two computer programs. The first program reads the 2455 page bill of indictment document, filters the nouns, and connects them based on their distance in the text. The second program visualizes this networked structure. In the resulting map, the size of fonts represents the frequency of the names, the relative distance represents relationship weights, dark colored areas show the centers formed by high connectivity.
The inspiration that triggered the Ergenekon.tc project is the digital illiteracy of the way bill of indictment presented by the Turkish court. The bill of indictment was first written in a digital form, then printed, scanned as images, made a PDF file, and distributed in this digitally illiberal form.
* “Foucault”, Gilles Deleuze, Sean Hand. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006
Burak Arikan
http://burak-arikan.comBurak Arikan is an artist and researcher who focuses on creating networked systems that evolve with the interactions of people and machines. His work confronts issues ranging from cultural sustainability to micro labor and politics in networked environments. He shows the instances of these systems online and onsite through diverse media including prints, animation, software, electronics, and physical materials. His work has presented and performed internationally at institutions including Venice Biennale, MoMA, Ars Electronica, Neuberger Museum of Art, Sonar Festival, DEMF and at independent venues such as Art Interactive, Turbulence, Upgrade! International, and Hafriyat. He has lectured at institutions including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rhode Island School of Design, New York University, Istanbul Technical University, and Istanbul Bilgi University. Arikan is also a contributing author at dugumkume.org. In 2006 Arikan completed his master’s degree at the MIT Media Laboratory in the Physical Language Workshop (PLW) led by John Maeda.
Delüks
http://deluks.orgDelüks aims to generate ‘intellectual capital’ by converting the surplus time, place, and labor that fails to yield ‘financial capital’. We suppose that it’s possible to invest this capital in any medium that interests us. Since we are a distributed, un-hierarchical network of individuals from various backgrounds, our set of instruments extend into a suite that includes art, activism, cultural studies, criticism, etc. As demonstrated in ‘Ergenekon.tc’, a Delüks activity might consist of getting involved and providing support for anyone with a fresh perspective we trust.