Monovacation cordially invites you to “the vacation” of vacations… The official tourism commercials of 30 countries in competition with each other have been selected and each film has been divided into the possible tiniest clips. The clips, 3-4 sec long by nature have been coded with tags. Through a network diagram which run as a software simulation, these tags are connected to each other via shared clips have found their positions on the map. Then, a new sequence have been generated through a traversal in the network map, jumping from one node to the closest, following the path of the most central tags. Shores from Egypt to Portugal, woman from Israel to India, mythological figures from Thailand to Turkey here comes an extracted fantasy of “vacation”…

Three part installation:

Projection (3 min loop) – Official tourism commercials of countries which are competitors of each other, used as data and presented in grid form.

Digital Print – Network map of tags connected by shared clips, generated by the content analysis of the tourism commercials, where the blue color represents the traversal path used for editing the new film.

Video (6 min loop) – New film reedited by the algorithm that traverses the paths on the network map.

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Exhibitions:

Data Asymmetry, The Winchester Gallery, 2016

LABoral Gijon, 2014

5th Marrakech Biennial, 2014

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2013

11th Sharjah Biennial, 2013

TSMD Architecture Center Ankara, 2013

Istanbul Modern Museum, 2013