Real Time Rome has featured in Turkey’s prestigious architecture and design magazine Arredamento. I wrote an article describing six software-maps that utilize data gathered, in real time and at an unprecedented scale, from cell phones and wireless technologies, to better understand the patterns of daily life in Rome. The article covered both the techniques (data … Continued
Murat Germen and I will be presenting some work at Upgrade! Istanbul Meeting in Istanbul Bilgi University. The discussion will go around re-construction of informational space. If you are around Istanbul, please come over. Feb 22 (today) 6pm Istanbul Bilgi University, Dolapdere, Z-08. Here is the announcement at the Upgrade! website: Space is usually defined … Continued
MIXED REALITIES is an international juried competition that will result in the commissioning of 5 networked art works to be exhibited/performed at Turbulence.org; Art Interactive, a gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A; and Ars Virtua, a gallery in the online 3D rendered environment, Second Life. Each commission will be $5,000 (US). Deadline is March 31, 2007. … Continued
Yahoo! launches the Pipes service for everyone to reprogram resources on the web. It is a visual programming environment for aggregating and manipulating feeds, a “Mashup 2.0” application in a way. Pipes derives its name from UNIX pipeline where the output of each process feeds directly as input of the next one. With Yahoo! Pipes … Continued
Ok I got the “things you didn’t know about me” virus from Sascha, here we go: In September 12, 1980 in Turkey, when the government was overthrown by the military, I was 4 years old. Right after the coup, it was not allowed to walk on the streets. I remember walking with my mom to … Continued
Sascha Pohflepp posted an article on Brian Eno‘s talk at The University of the Arts Berlin. I like the last comment on “making” things: In the past, you took things apart and studied them, but an even better way is to make them. When Craig Reynolds studied the flocking of birds in 1986, he decided … Continued
Brent released the Yummy Tag Buffet, a bubble-up browsing tool for personal del.icio.us tags and bookmarks. Bubble-up is an interaction/visualization metaphor we were discussing in the PLW last year. It is basically the comparison of the sizes of emerging visual elements in time. As certain tags are repeatedly used, they emerge as dominant keywords in … Continued
John recently pointed out this document from 1988: “How to do Research at the MIT AI Lab“. Well, the conditions have changed a lot with the networked information organization and exchange systems, but there might still be relevant information since it is mostly the documentation of the authors’ personal experiences. Today many research groups at … Continued
You’ve probably seen the new Time Person of the Year. Olia Lialina recently posted this image in the nettime list, she points out that with “You” Time address one particular person, a man they left in front of a personal computer a quarter of a century ago. I think by saying “You control the Information … Continued
I will be talking about Open I/O at the Pecha Kucha inspired event called 400 seconds in Istanbul. It will start tomorrow (Dec 21) at 7pm at Seksek Taksim Sakizaga Cad. Yogurtcu is merkezi no:19 k:4. Please come around and say hi if you’re around!
Today I read my friend Brent‘s thesis proposal draft “Promiserver“. He is rethinking the contract system in the context of networked collaboration and creative micro-economy. He has been building web services and APIs to facilitate a trustworthy promise system. As an alternative to written-once static contracts, he is proposing procedural dynamic contracts that emerge from … Continued
A Stock Market in Life is a market that uses the value generated by the immaterial labor of visitors at different urban spaces in Oklahoma City, Boston, Munich, and Istanbul. These spaces will be connected with each other via a streaming video server for the duration of the Upgrade! A Day in Life event. For … Continued
I did an interview with the Trendsetter Magazine for the November issue. We talked about the recent visual projects including Cellular Nations, Follow Dada, Micro Fashion Network, and the Real Time Rome project. Trendsetter Interview, November 2006.
I recently taught a 3 day computational design workshop at ITU Architecture Department. This was an introduction to the fundamentals of computer programming within the context of dynamic visual compositions. Undergraduate students particularly explored abstract macro compositions with details at the micro level. Participants will show their final work at ITU’s amazing Taskisla campus. After … Continued
I’ve packaged a basic XML-RPC library for Processing. XML-RPC is a widely adopted Remote Procedure Calling protocol that works over the Internet. It creates connections between procedures that are running in different applications, or on different machines. This is something I have been using for a while, I thought it may also be helpful for … Continued
We did an interview at We-Make-Money-Not-Art discussing Pinkies and Open I/O. Read the full interview here. Thanks Sascha!
I saw this great wall writing the other day in Cihangir. It says “If I don’t understand a technology, I call it laser!” And of course an anonymous “I love you” at the bottom right.
NPR (National Public Radio) features the Real Time Rome project on the Mixed Signals blog by JJ Sutherland on September 19, 2006. It says: “OK, not sure if you can make it to the Venice Biennale before it closes Nov. 19, but those crazy guys at MIT have produced an exhibit, which uses data from … Continued
I have attended the Wizard of OS conference in Berlin. Main discussions were around free open software culture technology privacy copyrights licenses and so on. In yesterday’s keynote, Lawrence Lessig simplified the “everybody is producer” paradigm into RO (Read Only) vs. RW (Read Write) culture. Mixing media is good, fight DRM, use open source software, … Continued
View from a dinner and the sleeping spots. The French pavilion in Venice Architecture Biennale is my favorite. While the rest of the biennale pavilions are showing images and concepts, creators of the French pavilion are living in the given space. They have a kitchen, a sleeping place, a bar, an office, a party space, … Continued
We finally opened the Real Time Rome exhibition in Venice Architecture Biennale. I designed and developed 6 visual software in collaboration with Francesco Calabrese. I don’t have words to talk about this project now, so here what MIT news office says: “The project utilizes data gathered, in real time and at an unprecedented scale, from … Continued
Next day in Ars Electronica, I presented three live software from the Real Time Rome project in the Pixelspaces session organized by Pascal Maresch. I presented with Carlo Ratti who showed the work of the Senseable City Lab at MIT. Other presenters were Toshio Iwai, Horst Hörtner from the Futurelab, and Andrew Shoben from Greyworld.org. … Continued
On September 2 and 3, I was at the 2006 Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria. I took part in a symposium along with Olga Goriunova and Jason Kottke on simplicity organized by John Maeda. John asked us to bring images that make us think seriously (or lightly) about simplicity / complexity? We mixed them … Continued
Currently, we are building the Real Time Rome exhibition for the Venice Architecture Biennale. I am putting the last touches to the 6 software I developed in collaboration with Francesco Calabrese. An instance of this work will also be shown in Ars Electronica Pixelspaces 2006. Preparing movies for the exhibition.
I left Boston. I am right on the Mediterranean sea in Venice. I am on an island called