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

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:

See the conference program here.

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.

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.

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.

MYPOCKET exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2009, Berlin

More info about MYPOCKET: http://burak-arikan.com/mypocket

MYPOCKET, Installation view at Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, 2009

“New 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:

“MYPOCKET”, Burak Arikan
“Confess”, Margot Lovejoy
“Nearly Human”, Douglas Irving Repetto
“Latent Figure Protocol”, Paul Vanouse

“New 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 York Times review about the show:

“‘New Media’: Brain Trees, DNA, Receipts … and Bells”, Susan Hodara, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/nyregion/westchester/08artwe.html

Meta-Control performance, Time Warp 2009, Mannheim.

More info here http://burak-arikan.com/meta-control

And here: http://burak-arikan.com/meta-control-at-timewarp-2009