[spectre] Presentation and Book Launch in Venice // Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Presentation and Book Launch Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground, Bosnia and Herzegovina http://bijenalle.com Association Biennial of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina is glad to announce the presentation of the Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the book launch of the project on 31st May 2013 at 11am, at Palazzo Zorzi, UNESCO Office, Venice. The Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground, Bosnia and Herzegovina book intends to provide an overall representation of the Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground, held in Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is edited in a way to unfold the content chronologically, shaped by the curatorial and artistic content accumulated in the course of two biennial editions, in 2011 and 2013. Furthermore, in the book, the director of the project, Edo Hozić, thoroughly explains his understanding and engagement with the cultural and the political substance of the bunker in the frame of the larger cultural discourse of Balkan region and beyond. Project D-0 ARK Underground, stationed in the space of the Atomic shelter in Konjic, 45km south of Sarajevo, is known as Tito's atomic shelter. The CODE name is Istanbul. The object is still under the Ministry of Defense of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The aim of the project is to transform this military object to a cultural center, hence the biennial is establishing a contemporary art museum inside of a historical museum. Edited by Basak Senova, the book is organized in five chapters. The first chapter presents the curatorial statements that elaborate on the issues and conditions that have formed the infrastructure of the project. Chapter two is dedicated to the works that are exhibited in the bunker accompanied by brief descriptions and images. The following chapter further discusses the existence and the significance of the project through the concept of 'vintage' by taking 'the cold war era' as the point of its departure. Chapter four recapitulates the outcome of the public program during the second edition by focusing on the public programming and discussions that took place in Sarajevo as an accompanying event of the biennial opening. Finally, the last chapter depicts the chronology of the project by providing brief information on talks, presentations, workshops and seminars that took place within the project. This book has been published by the Association Biennial of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and supported by UNESCO. The 2nd edition of the Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground, Bosnia and Herzegovina, curated by Basak Senova and Branko Franceschi, takes place through September 26, 2013. Basak Senova http://basaksenova.com http://nomad-tv.net __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] 2nd edition of Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2nd edition of Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground, Bosnia and Herzegovina April 26–September 26, 2013 www.bijenale.ba The partner countries are the Republics of Turkey and Croatia, in this respect, the curators are Basak Senova and Branko Franceschi, who have their paired curatorial statements under the titles Time Cube and The Castle and selected 35 international projects. Regardless of constructed histories and collective memories, remembering means jumping from one sequence to another. Each reading guides towards a new reality and each reality illuminates a new path to discover curves, waves, missing details, obscured secrets, and disguised opinions. By navigating through sequences of time, Time Cube aims at dwelling in past and future memories by (i) reconstructing narratives; (ii) experiencing diverse realities simultaneously; (iii) connecting the temporal with the spatial; and (iv) processing the evidences of fiction and fact together. Following the same line of thought, The Castle focuses on the unnerving sensation of paranoia, doom and egotism emanating from the inversion of the ancient concept of fortress to the underground haven for the political and military elite of the Cold War era and its contemporary transition into the tourist attraction. The central object of the Biennial is “Facility D-0, Tito’s Atomic War Command” located in Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Now, this very object still stands as a unique fiction, which is also a pastiche of industrial aesthetics and facts with working engines and ventilators as the backdrop of a historical fact. The bunker simply freezes time and is totally isolated from the outer world. At the same time, the bunker unfolds all the possible tensions, disappointments, dreams, hopes, and miseries of the entire geography. Participating artists are Adel Abidin, Alban Muja, Alfredo Pirri, Almin Zrno, Apparatus 22 and Studio Basar, Armin Linke, Autopsia, Banu Cennetoğlu and Yasemin Özcan, Brian Dailey, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Carlo Crovato, Conor McGrady, Cynthia Zaven, Dalibor Martinis, Danica Dakic, Daniel Garcia Andujar, Dario Solman, Edin Numankadic, Edo Murtic, Emre Erkal, Ibro Hasanovic, Igor Bosnjak, Janos Sugar, Kim Cascone, Laibach, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Miroslaw Balka, Nenad Malesevic, Nemanja Cvijanovic, Renata Poljak, Paul Devens, Saeri Kiritani, Simona Dumitriu, Stealth.unlimited, and Yane Calovski. The 2nd edition of the Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground, Bosnia and Herzegovina will take place April 26 through September 26, 2013. 2nd edition of Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground, Bosnia and Herzegovina Curators: Basak Senova and Branko Franceschi Curators’ assistant: Irfan Hosic Project Biennial Director: Edo Hozic Financial Expert: Snjezana Mesihovic Coordinator in Chief: Sandra Miljevic Hozic Executive Director: Ninoslav Verber Project assistant: Jasmin Corbadzic, Belma Jusufovic Production Team: Almir Abaz, Ivana Vukovic, Mirnes Bajic Public program: Basak Senova, Didem Yazici, Irfan Hosic in collaboration with Marieke Van Hal, the Biennial Foundation Partner institutions: Ministry of Defense of B&H, Goethe Institute in Sarajevo, Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, History Museum B&H, Herzegovina – Neretva Canton Tourist Board, Bosniak Institute Adil Zulfikarpašić Foundation, Black Box, FAKTA. Support: Support: Ministry of Civil Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ministry for Culture and Sport of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ministry for Culture and Sport of Canton Sarajevo, Ministry for Culture of Republic of Serbia, Ministry for Culture of Montenegro, Ministry for Culture of Republic of Croatia, Embassy of the Republic of Turkey in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Embassy of Republic of Slovenia in B&H, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia, UNESCO, NATO Headquarters Sarajevo, City of Konjic, SAHA, Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development, Biennial Foundation, “Dimitrie Cantemir” Romanian Cultural Institute Istanbul, Mondriaan Fund, Record Industry and Kilobase. The Program 23-27 April, 2013 Press Conference The press conference of the 2nd edition of Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground, Bosnia and Herzegovina will be held at History Museum, Sarajevo on April, 23rd, 12.00h. The language of the conference will be Bosnian. The same content and information will be given to public in English, during the opening of the roundtable discussion at Bosniak Institute Foundation, Sarajevo on 27th, 16.00h. Public Programs 23 - 24 - 25 / 27 April, 16.00h - 19.30h Adil Zulfikarpasic Bosniak Institute Foundation, Sarajevo On the occasion of the 2nd edition Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground: Time Cube and The Castle, the public programs are designed to support the objective of building a bridge between the international and the local actors of the contemporary art by developing community outreach approaches. Public program ac
[spectre] International Curator Competition 2012
International Curator Competition 2012 Application deadline: November 5, 2012 www.akbanksanat.com/icc Akbank Sanat announces the first edition of the International Curator Competition. Curators from around the world are encouraged to submit proposals by November 5, 2012. Akbank Sanat International Curator Competition is intended to provide support for emerging curators, reinforce interest in curatorial practices, and encourage new projects in the field of contemporary art. Developed and coordinated by Basak Senova, the competition has an application-based process. The content and the quality of the proposals will be evaluated by an international jury consisting of three curators. This year¹s jury includes Jack Persekian (director of the Al-Ma¹mal Foundation for Contemporary Art in Jerusalem and the artistic director of Darat Al Funun, The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman), Francis McKee (director of CCA, Glasgow, tutor and research fellow at Glasgow School of Art), and Basak Senova (independent curator). The winning curator is given opportunities to realize the proposal as an exhibition that will run from February 15April 30, 2013 at Akbank Art Centre, Istanbul, accompanied by an exhibition catalogue and additional activities. The curatorial fee, the exhibition production, travel expenses of the curator/s and artists, the production of the catalogue and the additional activities will be covered by Akbank Sanat. Eligibility Curators under the age of 40 are eligible to apply for the competition. There is no condition of residency or citizenship. Curators may apply for the competition as individuals as well as in groups (or as curatorial collectives). Curators will not be allowed to participate as artists in the projects. Guidelines By filling the application form (to be downloaded from www.akbanksanat.com/icc <http://www.akbanksanat.com/icc> ) the curators will explain the conceptual framework of the exhibition proposal as well as the artists and their works in detail. There could be additional activities (for instance: talks or video screenings) that could be incorporated into the exhibition proposal. Application forms must be written in English. Applicants are expected to submit (only electronic copies) the completed application form, CV (max. 2 pages) and accompanying visual material for their proposals (max. 4MB in total) by sending emails to i...@akbank.com. Closing date for applications is November 5, 2012, 17h GMT +2. Late applications shall not be considered for evaluation. Entries must be previously unpublished, and the proposal must not have been realised or exhibited before. The website www.akbanksanat.com/icc <http://www.akbanksanat.com/icc> contains the plan of the exhibition space, guidelines, and the application form. All applicants will be notified of the jury¹s decision by November, 23, 2012. For further inquiries please contact i...@akbank.com. Akbank Sanat Istiklal Cad. No. 8 Beyoglu / Istanbul, Turkey T +90 212 252 3500 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] ³CURATING EXCHANGE² , 13-16 June 2012, Skopje, Macedonia
³CURATING EXCHANGE² 13-16 June 2012 Skopje, Macedonia press to exit project space is pleased to invite you to Curating Exchange, the international symposium, which will take place at the GEM club in Skopje (Macedonia), from the 13th until the 16th of June 2012. Guest lecturers: Slavco Dimitrov (Macedonia), Sofija Grandakovska (Macedonia), Antonia Majaca (Croatia), Suzana Milevska (Macedonia), Dorothee Richter (Switzerland), Basak Senova (Turkey), Marko Stamenkovic (Serbia) and Yane Calovski (Macedonia) as moderator. * Curating Exchange is designed as a weeklong symposium addressing local and regional need for an insightful and qualitative exchange of experience and knowledge in terms of artistic research, curatorial practice and education. The simposium program is open to the public as a forum envisioned to address questions of social, political and cultural identification of recent curatorial and research practices with guests from Macedonia, the Balkan region and beyond. The format of the symposium allows for four evening sessions in which two guests each evening present and discusses recent curatorial and theoretical research projects. Topics covered include changing ideas about art theories and current institutional practices, the status of the curator as a critical instigator and educator, the different perceptions about the socio-political role of the curator, the identity of the curatorial practice as an academic discipline open to renovation, etc. Participants include: Suzana Milevska (Macedonia), Basak Senova (Turkey), Antonia Majaca (Croatia), Marko Stamenkovic (Serbia), Sofija Grandakovska (Macedonia), Slavco Dimitrov (Macedonia), Dorothee Richter (Switzerland) and Yane Calovski (Macedonia) as moderator. As a project, Curating Exchange will emphasize the need to reassess the role of the curator in these complex socio-political times and to question the potentiality of the curator to be a catalyst for socio-political and cultural change. We hope to provide insight into the collective regional and international perspectives in the field of curatorial practices and integrate new knowledge and expertise in the context of events in Macedonia. The program includes workshop for young curators, with an intent to produce exchange and development of critical, interdisciplinary and hybrid knowledge in the field of curatorial practices and contemporary visual art and culture. The workshop, open to aspiring curators in Macedonia and the region, is lead by Dorothee Richter, Head of Postgraduate Program in Curating, Institute for Cultural Studies in Arts, Zurich University of the Arts. It is intended to help the participants gain insight into the methodological, theoretical and organizational strategies via presentations, discussions, and development of individual and collaborative curatorial projects. Since there is a lack of curatorial training opportunities, we feel that the workshop will be of great importance for those who are interested but are not in position to experience such educational programs abroad. Assisting Ms. Richter in the workshop will be Ivana Vaseva, member of press to exit project space and current participant in the Curatorial Programme of de Appel arts centre in Amsterdam. Curating Exchange is realized as part of the "Visiting Curatorial Initiative"(VCI) program, initiated in 2005, in order to stimulate and support researches and implementation of new curatorial projects from young and emerging international and local curators. With the support of: Pro Helvetia - The Swiss Cultural Programme and additional partners. The program takes place in the GEM club a resurrected space in the Old bazaar in Skopje (address: Karaorman bb, Skopje) that connects cultural workers, artists and activists to share ideas and projects. To keep up with news and events related to press to exit project space, follow http://www.presstoexit.org.mk/ . For all other enquiries, please contact Yane Calovski, director of the project, at both presstoe...@gmail.com and yanec...@gmail.com. Programme: Wednesday June 13th · 10h 13h 1st session of workshop (Closed session. Only for the participants of the workshop) · 19h-20h Dorothee Richter: Development of Curating and Mediating Contemporary Art (Public presentation) · 20.30h-22h Marko Stamenkovic: The Contested and Condemned; and Slavco Dimitrov: Emotional Archive of Queer Experiences (Public presentations) Thursday June 14th · 10h 13h 2nd session of workshop (Closed session. Only for the participants of the workshop) · 20:30h -22h Basak Senova: Lost in Memory: Uncovered; and Sofija Grandakovska: The Jews from Macedonia and the Holocaust (Public presentations) Friday June 15th · 10h 13h 3rd session of workshop (Closed session. Only for the participants of the workshop) · 20h 21:30h Suzana Milevska: Curating Roma Protocol; and Antonija Majaca: Can you spe
[spectre] WHITE, curated by Basak Senova
WHITE curated by Basak Senova 6–28 January 2012 CDA-Projects Istanbul http://basaksenova.com/ex_25.html Deriving from the perceptual response to drawing as a conceptual language. The title “White” is substituted in Turkish as “Siyah”, which means ‘black’. This word game with the translation of the title implies the uncertainty and the complexity beneath the ‘coded’ oppositions. While the application of black and white could directly refer a perceptual opposition, both of these colours have their own physical and rhetorical characteristics and are simply different by definition. In the same line of thought, each artist in this exhibition responds to complicated and conflicting strategies and languages, thus allowing the exhibition to cast a light on what is neglected, missing, abstracted, but nonetheless intoxicating and destructive in the practice of ‘drawing’. This examination appears as a direct reaction to developing a conceptual language that is at once a destructive, menacing and impossible system of forms. While each work is distinct in terms of visuality and concept, they share interest in researching the potential of drawing as critical practice unbound by rules and methods. “White” is also an attempt to look closer into the drawings of artists Alban Muja, Aya Ben Ron, Ceren Oykut, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Gözde İlkin, Erik Göngrich, İlgen Arzik, Maria Loizidou, and Yane Calovski. The relationship between the works are analyzed not so much through a potential conceptual methodology or a shared thematic imposition, but rather through specific reasons in applying a direct constrain—using only the colours black and white. Most of the works are processes of repetitive acts trapped within conflicting and unresolved situations. The act of looping repetitive gestures and lines accumulates the sense of being trapped in a vicious circle. In order to address the idiosyncratic nature of the selected works, the spatial design of the exhibition is based on a horizontal linear setting that challenges the verticality of the gallery walls. All of the works in the exhibition are presented on a table that spreads through every room of the gallery. While navigating through the exhibition, due to the positioning of this long table, visitors are challenged to draw circles and re-visit parts of the table in order to reach every available work in the exhibition. “White” is supplemented by a book edited by curator Basak Senova which presents the works and the process of arriving at the concept and design of the exhibition. The book is available through CDA-Projects, Istanbul. *”Siyah” in Turkish. __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Book Launch: UNCOVERED. Nicosia International Airport. Book 1
Book Launch: UNCOVERED. Nicosia International Airport. Book 1 UNCOVERED is pleased to announce the book launch of UNCOVERED. Nicosia International Airport. Book 1, on Friday, 16th December, at 7pm, at Home for Cooperation, in the buffer zone, across from Ledra Palace. During the book launch Jack Persekian will present a performance of Nablus Soap. The book, edited by Basak Senova and Pavlina Paraskevaidou, includes texts by Alexander Galloway, AbdouMaliq Simone, Antonio Negri, Argyro Toumazou, Basak Senova, Bülent Diken, Dervis Zaim, Jack Persekian, Lamia Joreige, Marina Grzinic, Michael Hardt, Mushon Zer-Aviv, Niyazi Kizilyürek, Ozgul Ezgin, Pavlina Paraskevaidou, Pelin Tan, Socrates Stratis, Stavros Stavrides, and Jalal Toufic. Gökce Sekeroglu designed the book. UNCOVERED is a three-year research-based art and media project under the curatorship of Basak Senova and Pavlina Paraskevaidou. Three terms – “memory construction,” “commons,” and “control mechanisms” – form the conceptual springboard for the project. The development team consists of Argyro Toumazou, Özgül Ezgin, Vicky Pericleous and the curators. The partners of UNCOVERED are European-Mediterranean Art Association, The Pharos Arts Foundation, and Anadolu Kultur. UNCOVERED. Nicosia International Airport. Book 1 documents the first phase of the project that culminated with an exhibition in September 2011, in Nicosia of the eight commissioned works by Andreas Savva Constantinos Taliotis, Demetris Taliotis, Görkem Müniroğlu, Gürgenç Korkmazel, Emre Yazgın, Erhan Öze, Socratis Socratous, Orestis Lambrou, Oya Silbery, Özge Ertanın, Vicky Pericleous, and Zehra Sonya. The book includes a number of essays on the themes of “memory”, “commons”, and “control mechanisms” that were explored in the exhibition, as well as a section devoted to the eight projects. The publication also introduces the archive that has been initiated as part of the research and concludes with the contributions of the speakers made during the panel discussion following the opening of the exhibition. Venue: House for Cooperation, (buffer zone, across from Ledra Palace), Nicosia, Cyprus. Date and Time: 16th December, 2011, 7pm Editors: Pavlina Paraskevaidou and Basak Senova Contributions: Alexander Galloway, AbdouMaliq Simone, Antonio Negri, Argyro Toumazou, Basak Senova, Bülent Diken, Dervis Zaim, Jack Persekian, Lamia Joreige, Marina Grzinic, Michael Hardt, Mushon Zer-Aviv, Niyazi Kizilyürek, Ozgul Ezgin, Pavlina Paraskevaidou, Pelin Tan, Socrates Stratis, Stavros Stavrides, and Jalal Toufic Copy Editing and Proof Reading: Barbara Iacovou The printing of the book is kindly supported by Phileleftheros Group. The book is in part supported by The Open Society Foundations. www.uncovered-cyprus.com __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] UNCOVERED - Nicosia International Airport
UNCOVERED NICOSIA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Cyprus 2010-2013 www.uncovered-cyprus.com i...@uncovered-cyprus.com UNCOVERED is a long-term research-based art and media project under the curatorship of Basak Senova and Pavlina Paraskevaidou. It was initiated in 2010, based on Cypriot artist Vicky Pericleous¹s idea for an artistic intervention at the Nicosia International Airport, subsequently submitted as a proposal to the UNDP by Özgül Ezgin and Argyro Toumazou parallel to the peace-negotiations process. Three terms ³memory construction,² ³commons,² and ³control mechanisms² form the conceptual springboard for the project, which begins by developing a space of encounter for cultural producers from across the divided island. Lying abandoned inside the buffer zone since July 1974, off limits for the local population, the Nicosia Airport represents a spatial order generated by 36 years of UN control. The airport is a riddle nested within paradoxical questions of protection Protected. Unprotected. Covered. Uncovered. Protected for whom? Protected from whom? It is a spatial lapse, an episode of total invisibility. The Nicosia airport once served as the central port of entry and departure from the country. Now empty and protected from view, its former importance exists only in the islanders¹ childhood memories. The novelty of its architecture, with its much-hailed new terminal, has acquired a rich patina of forgetting. A monument to a failed modernism, the airport embodies a history that is written only to be erased and re-written all over again. Due to the historical significance of the airport along with its role in personal histories of division and survival in a state of suspended animation there is no doubt that the airport the building, the site, the land it occupies plays a critical role in the construction of the island¹s collective memory. UNCOVERED, then, places key importance on issues of memory and amnesia. UNCOVERED examines how control mechanisms have been operating in the island on multiple levels via the airport. The project explores how this space, frozen in time, indicates and exposes the operational and organizational logics of control that have evolved on the island over the past decades. One can even see it as an attempt to understand the ways protocols can be customized and complex systems can be manipulated by control mechanisms. UNCOVERED also questions the politics of space as it has been exercised on the island, challenges the validity of control mechanisms, and asks questions that move beyond the ubiquitous mnemonic to pain in order to ultimately reclaim the island¹s ³commons.² The project¹s two phases are to span three years. With the Nicosia International Airport, located within the UN Protected Area, as its point of departure, the project aims to engage the local population closely, working with artists from both sides of the island to produce works and content that incorporate diverse critical perspectives on the ongoing conditions of instability. The first phase is dedicated to data collection and the development of these local perspectives. It will culminate in an exhibition, seminar, and book launch in October 2011. The second phase will expand to include international partners, and will focus on data processing and case analysis through panels, workshops, and publications. This second phase will give priority to the commission and presentation of international art projects under the auspices of UNCOVERED, both on Cyprus and abroad, while developing and improving facilities for art production on Cyprus itself. The curatorial work of the UNCOVERED project will be presented and discussed by Basak Senova during the Sharjah Art Foundation¹s 4th Annual March Meeting. The March Meeting is a three-day cultural symposium featuring presentations by international artists, institutions, and art professionals on artistic practice and production in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia. It will precede the 10th edition of the Sharjah Biennial from March 16 to May 16, 2011. The partners of UNCOVERED are European-Mediterranean Art Association, The Pharos Arts Foundation, and Anadolu Kültür. __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] UNCOVERED - Nicosia International Airport - September 2011 Launch
NICOSIA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Cyprus 2010-2013 www.uncovered-cyprus.com i...@uncovered-cyprus.com 23 September 23 October 2011 Opening: 23rd September Venue: Ledra Street/Lockmaci Buffer zone Hours: 10am-8pm, daily (except Mondays) Time: 7:00pm Guided Tour of the exhibit: 24 September Venue: Ledra Street-Lokmaci, Buffer Zone Given in English by the curators and the artists Time: 10.30-11.30am Panel Discussion: 24th September Venue: Home for Cooperation Buffer zone Time: 2.30-7.30pm Curators : Pavlina Paraskevaidou and Basak Senova Project Co-Ordinators: Ozgul Ezgin and Argyro Toumazou Based on an idea by artist Vicky Pericleous. THE PROJECT UNCOVERED is a three-year research based art project, divided into two phases, and its area of investigation are the issues stemming from the prolonged condition of the closed Nicosia International Airport. The title of the project is a word-play UN+COVERED reflecting on the role and presence of the UN at the airport since the latter was declared a United Nations Protected Area following the hostilities on the island in the summer of 1974, resulting in the de-facto division of the island and the creation of a buffer zone. The United Nations continues to facilitate Peace negotiations between the two sides. The project aims to explore notions of memory, commons and control mechanisms, as these arise out of the status of a closed-off airport in a space of conflict. Lying abandoned inside the buffer zone, off limits to the local communities, the Nicosia Airport represents a spatial order generated by 37 years of UN control in the context of a protracted conflict between the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities. The once-bustling Nicosia airport served as the central port of entry and departure in a newly independent country in the wake of post-colonialism. The novelty of its architecture, with its much-hailed new terminal, has acquired a rich patina of forgetting, a monument to a failed modernism while at the same time remains in a state of suspended animation. The project explores how this space, frozen in time and space, indicates and exposes the operational and organizational logics of control that have evolved on the island over the past decades and asks questions that move beyond the ubiquitous mnemonic to pain in order to ultimately understand and reclaim the island¹s ³commons.² FIRST PHASE The first phase has concentrated on cultural production in Cyprus and the commissioning of eight projects by Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, including Özge Ertann and Oya Silbery, Görkem Müniroglu and Emre Yazgin, Vicky Pericleous, Erhan Oze, Andreas Savva, Zehra Sonia and Gürgenc Kormazel, Socratis Socratous, Demetris Taliotis, Constantinos Taliotis and Orestis Lambrou. The exhibition of the projects runs from 23 September 23 October 2011. On Saturday 24 September in the morning there will be a guided tour of the exhibit, given by the curators and a panel discussion in the afternoon with Monica Griznic, Lamia Joreige, Niyazi Kizilyurek , Socrates Stratis and Jack Persekian moderated by Basak Senova and Pavlina Paraskevaidou, followed by a screening of Anton Vidokle¹s New York Conversations. An accompanying book will be published in October 2011 and includes contributions by Stavros Stavrides, Bulent Diken, Alex Galloway, Abdoumaliq Simone, Jalal Touffic,Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Dervis Zaim, Mushon Zer-Aviv, Pelin Tan, and Socrates Stratis, together with essays from the curators and sections devoted to the archive and the artists work. THE ARTISTS¹ PROJECTS Özge Ertann and Oya Silbery use various media to investigate and question social and political situations in Cyprus with black humour. As a response to the protracted idleness on the island, they work on a website for the Nicosia International Airport with information and data that function as though the airport was active. Nevertheless, the ironic content of the website reveals the actual state of the airport, once a user starts navigating through its pages. Görkem Müniroglu works with both sound and image and for this project, he collaborates with Emre Yazgin, a sound engineer, to create a sound installation. Müniroglu aims to revive the dead energy of Nicosia airport by playing it as a musical instrument. For this installation he has produced soundtracks, which consist of series of composed and edited sound recordings, taken from the airports at Nicosia, Larnaca and Ercan. Erhan Oze investigates how the war of sovereignty over Cyprus has been extended to the electromagnetic field and the island¹s air space. The artist highlights that tactic of intercepting radio signals as both Ercan Air Control Centre and Nicosia Air Control Centre try to exercise control over the FIR space and ascertain sovereignty. The artist presents interviews with air traffic controllers from both sides where each presents their side of the problem, while Erhan also
[spectre] UNCOVERED - Nicosia International Airport
UNCOVERED NICOSIA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Cyprus 2010-2013 www.uncovered-cyprus.com i...@uncovered-cyprus.com UNCOVERED is a long-term research-based art and media project under the curatorship of Basak Senova and Pavlina Paraskevaidou. It was initiated in 2010, based on Cypriot artist Vicky Pericleous’s idea for an artistic intervention at the Nicosia International Airport, subsequently submitted as a proposal to the UNDP by Özgül Ezgin and Argyro Toumazou parallel to the peace-negotiations process. Three terms – “memory construction,” “commons,” and “control mechanisms” – form the conceptual springboard for the project, which begins by developing a space of encounter for cultural producers from across the divided island. Lying abandoned inside the buffer zone since July 1974, off limits for the local population, the Nicosia Airport represents a spatial order generated by 36 years of UN control. The airport is a riddle nested within paradoxical questions of protection – Protected. Unprotected. Covered. Uncovered. Protected for whom? Protected from whom? – It is a spatial lapse, an episode of total invisibility. The Nicosia airport once served as the central port of entry and departure from the country. Now empty and protected from view, its former importance exists only in the islanders’ childhood memories. The novelty of its architecture, with its much-hailed new terminal, has acquired a rich patina of forgetting. A monument to a failed modernism, the airport embodies a history that is written only to be erased and re-written all over again. Due to the historical significance of the airport – along with its role in personal histories of division and survival in a state of suspended animation – there is no doubt that the airport – the building, the site, the land it occupies – plays a critical role in the construction of the island’s collective memory. UNCOVERED, then, places key importance on issues of memory and amnesia. UNCOVERED examines how control mechanisms have been operating in the island on multiple levels via the airport. The project explores how this space, frozen in time, indicates and exposes the operational and organizational logics of control that have evolved on the island over the past decades. One can even see it as an attempt to understand the ways protocols can be customized and complex systems can be manipulated by control mechanisms. UNCOVERED also questions the politics of space as it has been exercised on the island, challenges the validity of control mechanisms, and asks questions that move beyond the ubiquitous mnemonic to pain in order to ultimately reclaim the island’s “commons.” The project’s two phases are to span three years. With the Nicosia International Airport, located within the UN Protected Area, as its point of departure, the project aims to engage the local population closely, working with artists from both sides of the island to produce works and content that incorporate diverse critical perspectives on the ongoing conditions of instability. The first phase is dedicated to data collection and the development of these local perspectives. It will culminate in an exhibition, seminar, and book launch in October 2011. The second phase will expand to include international partners, and will focus on data processing and case analysis through panels, workshops, and publications. This second phase will give priority to the commission and presentation of international art projects under the auspices of UNCOVERED, both on Cyprus and abroad, while developing and improving facilities for art production on Cyprus itself. The curatorial work of the UNCOVERED project will be presented and discussed by Basak Senova during the Sharjah Art Foundation’s 4th Annual March Meeting. The March Meeting is a three-day cultural symposium featuring presentations by international artists, institutions, and art professionals on artistic practice and production in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia. It will precede the 10th edition of the Sharjah Biennial from March 16 to May 16, 2011. The partners of UNCOVERED are European-Mediterranean Art Association, The Pharos Arts Foundation, and Anadolu Kültür. __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Upgrade International 2010: Soft Borders
Upgrade International 2010: Soft Borders October 18-21, 2010 :: São Paulo, Brazil. http://www.softborders.art.br/festival/ Soft Borders is the 4th Upgrade! International Network Conference and Festival; previous editions of the conference happened in New York (USA), Oklahoma City (USA) and Skopje (Macedonia). The conference will gather artists, curators and researchers from 30 countries to present and discuss the field of new media art, in the international and local contexts, especially in Brazil, the country that is hosting the present edition of the event. The new media festival that is also part of the Soft Borders event will present artworks selected by three curators — Silvia Laurentiz (Brazil), Basak Senova (Turkey), and Elena Veljanovska (Macedonia). The Soft Borders theme that drives either the conference and the art festival, aim to discuss the borders disolutions between the many fields of the knowledge and life, the contamination of the one another, particularly regarding the relationship between art-science-technology. http://www.softborders.art.br/festival/ http://theupgrade.net/ __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Curatorial Network Seminar: Inter_connections @ Plymouth Arts Centre, 25.04.08
Curatorial Network Seminar Inter_connections Speakers: Basak Senova, Ute Meta Bauer and Paul O'Neill Plymouth Arts Centre Friday 25 April 2008, 12.305.30pm Plymouth Arts Centre and i-DAT present Inter_connections seminar, the concluding event of a curatorial residency undertaken by Basak Senova. Senova is assistant professor at Kadir Has University, an independent curator and founding member of the Istanbul association NOMAD. Senova was resident at i-DAT and Plymouth Arts Centre in January 2008 as part of the programme of International Curatorial Research Residencies initiated by the Curatorial Network. The seminar reflects upon the notion of perceiving urban based realities within cross-territorial practices and networks¹. There are presentations by Basak Senova; Ute Meta Bauer (Director of the Visual Arts programme at MIT, artistic director of the 3rd Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art & co-curator of Documenta 11); Paul O¹Neill (curator, writer and Research Fellow with Situations at the University of the West of England, Bristol researching the development of contemporary curatorial practice); i-DAT and Plymouth Arts Centre. Basak Senova is mapping cross-cultural generosity, sharing, communication, social interaction and exchange in contemporary art practice. Starting with the structuring of an active personal curatorial network map, she aims to detect and process parallel cases and counter-actions, which set new modes and channels for social, political and cultural information flow. Part of the Curatorial Network programme, delivered by KURATOR, ArtProjects and Solutions and supported by Arts Council England South West. For further information or to join the discussion list, see http://www.curatorial.net Plymouth Arts Centre 38 Looe Street Plymouth PL4 0EB 01752 206114 www.plymouthac.org.uk having trouble reading this email? click on the following link: http://www.plymouthac.org.uk/eshot/eshotCSN/Curatorial.htm# basak senova NOMAD http://www.nomad-tv.net +90 536 930 1321 PK 16, 34741 Suadiye, Istanbul, Turkey __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] UNRECORDED
UNRECORDED 5 March 16 April 2008 Akbank Sanat, Istanbul Curated by Basak Senova The perceptual re-construction of space is a continuous process, generated by diverse inputs such as our senses, memory, history, consciousness as well as technology. It is a process, consisting of momentary fragments, which are impossible to record. They are temporary, augmented, designed, and loaded. ³Unrecorded² exhibition looks at the notion of space as a decisive factor in our perception of the realities that surround us. The works of Kati London (US), Thomas Duc (France), Laila El-Haddad (Palestine), Dan Phiffer (US), Mushon Zer-Aviv (Israel), Daniel Garcia Andujar (Spain), Zhou Hongxiang (China), Banu Cennetoglu (Turkey), Negar Tahsili (Iran), Kate Armstrong (Canada), and Ali Taptik (Turkey) unfold and restructure all possible perceptual codes through their own inspections, observations, and approaches. They ask questions about the physicality of the space; content of mediatized spaces; clashes between realities and perception of spaces; spaces and situations, discharging information; and narrative spaces. Exhibition space is deliberately designed to minimize the interaction between the data input of physical space and the audio-visual senses of the viewer, in order to drive the viewer into the realm of each work. Thus, each and every work leads to another, through a unique navigation established by each viewer. In this respect, works in the exhibition are re-positioned, re-linked in space-time relative to the ³reading² done by each viewer, building alternative paths. Inevitably, the exhibition takes the phases of informational capitalism, global scenarios for socio-political, cultural and economic gaps into consideration, on each and every visit. The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of lectures and workshops developed by a group of artists, writers, curators and theorists including Jalal Toufic (Lebanon), Nat Muller (The Netherlands), Technologies To The People (Daniel G. Andujar) (Spain), Laila El-Haddad (Palestine), Dan Phiffer (US), and Mushon Zer-Aviv (Israel). 6 March 2008 A presentation and talk by Laila El-Haddad (Palestine), Dan Phiffer (US) and Mushon Zer-Aviv (Israel) You Are Not Here Laila El-Haddad, Dan Phiffer and Mushon Zer-Aviv will present the You Are Not Here project and discuss the mediated interpretation of space in the context of military occupation and the resistance to it. 8 March 2008 A talk by Nat Muller (The Netherlands) Soft Reality meets Soft Space: An Attempt towards an incomplete Glossary A proposal for interpreting the soft collisions between messy systems of representation and spatial conceptions. 13-14-15 March 2008 A 3 days practical and theoretical workshop/meeting by Technologies To The People. Directed by Daniel G. Andújar (Spain) DIT "Do It Together" Workshop Series The Apprehension of reality from the Postcapital Archive This interdisciplinary workshop is open to cultural & media producers, artists, scientists, theorists, activists, and anyone interested in design, visual communication, art, media, and cultural sciences. The objective of the workshop is to facilitate reflection upon the structures of the "public" process, communication methods, and the possibilities these present. It also aims to intervene artistically using modern communication technology methods, and to test new "public" participation models. 31 March 1 April 2008 A 2 days lecture by Jalal Toufic (Lebanon) You Said ³Stay,² So I Stayed Attending to the film Groundhog Day, Jalal Toufic will lecture on the will and its relation to eternal recurrence. Admission is free. Registration in advance is needed for the workshops. Akbank Sanat Istiklal Cad. Zambak Sok. No:1 Beyoglu, Istanbul Tel: (0 212) 252 35 00 01 Fax: (0 212) 245 12 28 [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] opening of the Light Illumination and Electricity exhibition
Light Illumination and Electricity opening Thursday, 1.11.2007, 6pm Exhibition 2-30.11.2007 everday except Mondays 10am-10pm Artists Carlo Crovato Cevdet Erek Adham Hafez Marko Kovačič Ceren Oykut Borut Savski Cynthia Zaven Collective Position: Rémy Rivoire Renaud Vercey Bruno Voillot Curator Basak Senova The launching project of the international artists-in-residence program of santralistanbul, “Light, Illumination, & Electricity”, is planned as an event in process. The project attempts to follow the journey of the resident artists and their works, progressed in Istanbul, with various presentation formats and fields of research. The inputs of these formats (talks, presentations, performances and workshops) have shaped the outcome of this journey into two-folded display: open-studio presentations at the artists’ studios and the exhibition at the Energy Museum. The exhibition documents the multiplicity and diversity of ideas and practice around the extensive substances of electricity and light. At the same time, it engenders and illuminates artists’ reflections and perceptions of the city, along with sequences and narrations of memory. Other Participants of the Project Sarkis Zabunyan, Andreas Broeckmann, Gregor Jansen, Paolo Rosa, Jan Peter E.R. Sonntag, EtienneRey, Aylin Kalem, Erhan Muratoğlu A blog, dedicated specifically to this project, has been created during the residency: http://santralistanbul-lie.blogspot.com The Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, santralistanbul, ZINC – ECM de la Friche Belle de Mai, NOMAD and SCCA. __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] ctrl_alt_del news letter #1
ctrl_alt_del news letter #1 ctrl_alt_del launches on September 9th, 2007 ctrl_alt_del sound art project starts with the opening party at garajistanbul on September 9th at 9pm! Party will start with a brief presentation of the project by the curators, followed by video screenings and live performances of Paul Devens (Maastricht), Eran Sachs (Jerusalem) and Anabala [Ceren Oykut & Murat Ertel] (Istanbul). Party will go on with Reuben De Latour, Saska RR ve Bant DJ set. ctrl_alt_del, organized by NOMAD, is the first and the only sound-art festival in Turkey, and has been realized concurrent with International Istanbul Biennial, since year 2003. Took place in Istanbul and Maastricht, 30 people from 16 different countries contributed to the project in 2003. In 2005, ctrl_alt_del took place in the “positionings” section of the 9th International Istanbul Biennial and 57 people from 12 countries participated in the project. This year, festival will start parallel to the Biennial, and will extent to 8 months. ctrl_alt_del consists of: Opening Concert, Performance Series (live), Workshops, Panels, Presentations, Open Call, Field Studies/Workshops, Exhibition, Radio Programmes, Publication and CD release. The theme of ctrl_alt_del 2007 is “remote orienteering”, refering to orienteering activity. The theme is not only connected to the navigational systems but it is also about positioning oneself within interconnected social and political realities. The theme will also be processed with the issues of control. The development team consist of Paul Devens (NL), Can Karadogan (TR), Basak Senova (TR), Eran Sachs (DE/IL), Erhan Muratoglu (TR), and Emre Erkal (TR). September schedule includes the results of the jury for the open- call, and the radio programmes that will be broadcasted in 18 cities over the world. detailed info about the project http://project-ctrl-alt-del.com detailed info about NOMAD http://nomad-tv.net blog is on http://www.nomad-tv.net/ctrl_alt_del september programme opening party 09.09.2007, 21:00 garajistanbul (Tomtom Mahallesi Yeni Çarşı Caddesi Kaymakam Reşat Bey Sokak No: 11/A Galatasaray) talk The development team of ctrl_alt_del will briefly introduce the project by also referring to the history of the festival. sound-based video screening performances Paul Devens (Maastricht) Eran Sachs (Jerusalem) Anabala (Istanbul) DJ Reuben De Latour Saska RR Bant DJ set radio programmes will be on September 9th - 16th, 2007 www.artwaveradio.net (Athens) , Art Radio WPS1.org (New York), CKUT 90.3 FM (Montreal), Radio Helsinki (Graz), CrossRadio - Radio Student (Ljubljana); B92 (Belgrade); MaRS (Maribor); Radio Mostar; RadioIN (Novi Sad); Radio Blue Sky (Pristina) eFM (Sarajevo); RadioSombor; Kanal 103 (Skopje); Radio Aktiv (Zagreb); Radio Zrenjanin; Radio X (Basel), Radio Lora (Zurich), International Berlin Backyard Radio (Berlin & Brandenburg), Radyo ODTÜ (Ankara), Periscope Radio (Pécs), Açık Radyo [Open Radio] (Istanbul). http://project-ctrl-alt-del.com/2007/radio.html open call For the third ctrl_alt_del, we looked for interesting, provocative, subversive, experimental and sophisticated works. As the result of our open call, 5 pieces by Lars L. Hansen, Duncan Whitley, Dinah Bird & Jean-Philipe Renoult, Ali Bilgin Arslan, Faye Peacock are selected by the jury and will be presented in Istanbul during the ctrl_alt-del festival. Plus, Peter Cusack, Norman W. Long, Raum/2a (A. Utku Öğüt & A. Tolga Ayıklar), Timothy Weaver, Incite/ (Kera Nagel & Andre Aspelmeier), Alejandro Garcia Gonzalez, Giuseppe Rapisarda, Thomas Bey William Bailey, Lou Smith, Jenni Meredith, Henry Gwiazda, Anton Kaun, Association of Experimental Electronics, Stewart Clelland, Blas Payri, Ido Govrin, and Iury Lech will be in ctrl_alt_del compilation CD. http://project-ctrl-alt-del.com/2007/open_call.html basak senova NOMAD http://www.nomad-tv.net +90 536 930 1321(TR) +31 625 238 614 (NL) PK 16, 34741 Suadiye, Istanbul, Turkey __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] date extended to july 20th: open call - ctrl_alt_del - 2007 /2008
submission date is extended to July 20th OPEN CALL for ctrl_alt_del project-ctrl-alt-del.com/opencall_07.htm project-ctrl-alt-del.com In 2007-2008, ctrl_alt_del will be realized by NOMAD in corporation with Istanbul Technical University MIAM. Venues will be garajistanbul, Istanbul Technical University MIAM, santralistanbul/Bilgi University, and Babylon. ctrl_alt_del will include Opening Concert, Performance Series (live), Workshops, Panels, Presentations, Open Call, Field Studies/Workshops, Exhibition, Radio Programmes, Publication and CD release. The theme of ctrl_alt_del in 2007 and 2008 will be ³remote orienteering². As the first dedicated sound art festival in Turkey, ctrl_alt_del enjoyed a great deal of international publicity in 2003 and 2005. For the third ctrl_alt_del to be start in September 2007 and continue till the end of April 2008, we are now looking for interesting, provocative, subversive, experimental and sophisticated works. 5 pieces will be selected by the jury and will be presented during ctrl_alt_del. JURY Georg Dietzler Paul Devens Murat Ertel Hassan Khan Scanner Eran Sachs Istanbul Technical University - MIAM (Pieter Snapper and Can Karadogan) NOMAD (Emre Erkal, Erhan Muratoglu, Basak Senova) THEME The practice of ³remote orienteering² suggests generating content and schematics in our conduct. Equally applicable for radical means of urban subversion, ³remote orienteering² is the key process which the entries of ctrl-alt-del should be directed. The pieces are asked to be compliant with the following subjects in order to create an intellectual climate of comprehension and discussion: 1. sounds for orientation, or sound as orientation. 2. distant sounds or sound in spatial contexts 3. sound and cultural subversion SUBMISSION MATERIALS 1. Two audio CD¹s (original and a copy) of only ONE piece is the format of the submission. Piece will not be more than 4 minutes long. Projects which rely on specific visual documentation can be submitted on a DVD, but in any case clip should not be longer than 4 minutes. 2. The name of the participant and the name of the piece(s) should be written on this CD with a permanent marker. 3. An A4 size page with name, address, e-mail and telephone number of the participant, and the names of the piece will be submitted. 4. An optional, separate A4 size page with a description, clarification or reflection could be submitted depending completely on the desire of the participant. These optional documents will not be used for evaluation, but they could be used in later stages. The works should be at the below mailing address before the 20th of July, 2007: Basak Senova PK 16 Suadiye 34741 Istanbul, Turkey ANNOUNCEMENT Selected works and their owners will be announced in late August 2007 on the NOMAD website: http://www.nomad-tv.net/ All of the submitted material will be kept in NOMAD archive. - http://project-ctrl-alt-del.com/opencall_07.htm http://project-ctrl-alt-del.com http://nomad-tv.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] open call - ctrl_alt_del - 2007
OPEN CALL for ctrl_alt_del project-ctrl-alt-del.com/opencall_07.htm project-ctrl-alt-del.com In 2007, ctrl_alt_del will be realized by NOMAD in corporation with Istanbul Technical University MIAM and Kadir Has University. The base of the project will be Kadir Has University which is located on Golden Horn. This year ctrl_alt_del will include Opening Concert, Performance Series (live), Workshops, Panels, Presentations, Open Call, Field Studies/Workshops, Exhibition, Radio Programmes, Publication and CD release. The theme of ctrl_alt_del in 2007 will be ³remote orienteering². As the first dedicated sound art festival in Turkey, ctrl_alt_del enjoyed a great deal of international publicity in 2003 and 2005. For the third ctrl_alt_del to be held in September 2007, we are now looking for interesting, provocative, subversive, experimental and sophisticated works. 5 pieces will be selected by the jury and will be presented during ctrl_alt_del. JURY Georg Dietzler Paul Devens Murat Ertel Hassan Khan Scanner Eran Sachs Istanbul Technical University - MIAM (Pieter Snapper and Can Karadogan) NOMAD (Emre Erkal, Erhan Muratoglu, Basak Senova) THEME The practice of ³remote orienteering² suggests generating content and schematics in our conduct. Equally applicable for radical means of urban subversion, ³remote orienteering² is the key process which the entries of ctrl-alt-del should be directed. The pieces are asked to be compliant with the following subjects in order to create an intellectual climate of comprehension and discussion: 1. sounds for orientation, or sound as orientation. 2. distant sounds or sound in spatial contexts 3. sound and cultural subversion SUBMISSION MATERIALS 1. Two audio CD¹s (original and a copy) of only ONE piece is the format of the submission. Piece will not be more than 4 minutes long. Projects which rely on specific visual documentation can be submitted on a DVD, but in any case clip should not be longer than 4 minutes. 2. The name of the participant and the name of the piece(s) should be written on this CD with a permanent marker. 3. An A4 size page with name, address, e-mail and telephone number of the participant, and the names of the piece will be submitted. 4. An optional, separate A4 size page with a description, clarification or reflection could be submitted depending completely on the desire of the participant. These optional documents will not be used for evaluation, but they could be used in later stages. The works should be at the below mailing address before the 29th of June, 2007: Basak Senova PK 16 Suadiye 34741 Istanbul, Turkey ANNOUNCEMENT Selected works and their owners will be announced in August 2007 on the NOMAD website: http://www.nomad-tv.net/ All of the submitted material will be kept in NOMAD archive. - http://project-ctrl-alt-del.com/opencall_07.htm http://project-ctrl-alt-del.com http://nomad-tv.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] the upgrade!istanbul #8
Upgrade!Istanbul invites all of the artists, artist groups and artist initiatives (especially based in Istanbul) to discuss and to participate in Anna Sala¹s project. Upgrade!Istanbul by NOMAD 26th of April 18:00- Alternative Directory by Anna Sala The goal of the project is to have an useful tool for a transcultural dialogue and a platform to interconnect the alternative or independent movements (artists and spaces) with other geographical scenarios in order to create and spread cultural exchange networks. Anna Sala Is currently based in Barcelona. She graduated as a graphic designer from Massana School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. Her career as a graphic designer brought her to multimedia studios in Paris, Wrexam and New York. Since 2004 she has been involved with social movements and several political arts projects in Barcelona. She was one of the founders of the collective Eclectica dv, a non-profit arts organization that wants to promote the use and benefits of new technologies through the independent art production and networks using free software & copyleft. She is currently involved in developping interfaces for people and networks using printed and online material . Projects: Map & workshops: http://sindominio.net/mapas/ing/index_ing.htm Technology: http://www.eclecticadv.net http://donestech.net Public space: http://www.citymined.org/projects/parkcentralpark.php In summer of 2006, she participated in Lost Highway Expedition http://www.europelostandfound.net santralistanbul will host this meeting at Istanbul Bilgi University, Dolapdere Campus, Theater The Upgrade! Istanbul is a monthly gathering for new media artists, academicians, practitioners, curators and for all of the other actors of digital culture, organized by NOMAD and hosted by santralistanbul. The Upgrade! is a network of international monthly meetings in the field of art and technology. Founded by media artist Yael Kanarek in 1999, the Upgrade! exists as forums for artists, designers, critics, curators and educators who form the communities in different cities to discuss and share knowledge. Current nodes include Boston, Chicago, Montreal, Munich, NYC, Oklahoma City, Scotland, Seoul, Sofia, Tel-Aviv, Istanbul, Vancouver Lisbon and Toronto. Host organisations include Eyebeam, Turbulence.org , New Media Scotland, Art Centre Nabi, The Western Front, The Society for Arts and Technology (SAT), InterSpace, I-camp, DCA, CCA, No-Org.net, Art Interactive, santralistanbul, Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporânea. Open-Node.com and TUBE. http://www.nomad-tv.net/upgrade http://www.nomad-tv.net __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] following up HTMlles EXPORT2 - Belgrade | Sofia | Istanbul
For follow ups on HTMlles Festival : EXPORT 2, please check http://dpi.studioxx.org/index.php?id=106 http://www.nomad-tv.net/htmlles http://htmlles.net --- HTMlles Festival : EXPORT 2 October 19-29, 2006 Belgrade | Sofia | Istanbul >From the 19th-29th of October 2006, a program of art works and artists that participated in the 7th edition of the HTMlles festival themed Peripheries + Proximities traveled to 3 cities: Belgrade, Serbia ; Sofia, Bulgaria; and Istanbul, Turkey with the goal of fostering new dialog and collaborations. Through a series of focused encounters, interactive workshops, artists talks, performances and short exhibitions, the traveling Canadian artists and their works encountered numerous curators, cultural operators, local artists and local publics in each of the 3 cities. The touring works presented in parallel to programming, produced by local partners and translated in English and in the respective local languages. All events were open to the public, including the interactive workshops. participating artists and curators include: Chantal Dumas [ca], Michelle Teran [ca], Caroline Martel [ca], Joanna Berzowska [ca/po], Jennifer Willet + Shawn Bailey [ca], Emily Hermant [ca], Kyd Campbel [ca], Andreja Kuluncic [cr], Maja Ciric [sr], Miroslav Karic [sr], Basak Senova [tr], Selda Asal [tr], Anica Vucetic [sr], Zana Poliakov [sr], Natasa Teofilovic [sr], Aleksandra Jovanic [sr], Yofka [bg], Veronika Tzekova [bg], Adelina Popnedeleva[bg], Diana Popova [bg], Greta Gancheva [bg], Leda Ekimova [bg], Nina Boyanova [bg], Yana Kostova [bg], Vladia Mihailova [bg], Ceren Oykut [tr], Ozlem Sulak [tr], Hatice Guleryuz [tr], Bengu Karaduman [tr], [tr], Ulku Songul [tr] and Melek Ozman (Filmmor Women's Cooperative) [tr]. --- NOMAD http://www.nomad-tv.net --- __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] KONTROL online magazine launches its first issue!
KONTROL online magazine launches its first issue! nomad-tv.net/kontrol http://nomad-tv.net/kontrol KONTROL online magazine perspectives on control in the course of contemporary art, culture, technology, information channels and politics KONTROL is designed as an online magazine in English, featuring articles, interviews and reviews specifically on issues of control. The magazine has developed as part of the ³under.ctrl² project by NOMAD. The editors of KONTROL are Basak Senova and Yane Calovski. The materials which are assembled for each issue will be structured around a sub-theme, include articles, reports, analytical studies, interviews, art projects, and photographs. The sub-theme of this first issue is ³the pornography of fabricating fear². Contributors of the first issue are Inke Arns, Daniele Balit, Taeyoon Choi, Sebastian Cichocki, Maia Damianovic, Christoph Draeger, Marina Grzinic, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Glenn Ligon, Geert Lovink, Suzana Milevska, Ceren Oykut, Igor Stromajer, Tul Akbal Sualp, Zaneta Vangeli, and Ana Vujanovic. KONTROL is designed by kuzudesign.com and hosted by NOMAD. http://nomad-tv.net/kontrol [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Rejection Episodes by Vooruit and NOMAD, 19.00, 07 December 2006
REJECTION EPISODES curated by Basak Senova participating artists and designers are Hatice Guleryuz, Ali Cabbar, Yesim Agaoglu, Zekiye Sarikartal, Nermin Er, Arzu Ozkal - Orkan Telhan, Osman Bozkurt, Bengisu Bayrak, Extrastruggle, Banu Cennetoglu, Koken Ergun, Ceren Oykut, and Ali Taptik. http://www.nomad-tv.net/rejection_episodes opening hours: Vooruit: daily from 19.00 till 23.00, 07-16 December 2006, closed on Sunday De Centrale: daily from 18.00 till 20.00, 7-10 December 2006 The project title Rejection Episodes is derived from the science of medicine: Immune cells may cause serious damage in order to protect the body from any medical intervention by triggering rejection episodes. The immune system functions by distinguishing between cells it recognizes as 'self' and foreign material. The occurrence of these episodes is totally instinctive. Similarly, a social rejection may also be instinctive and beyond reasoning. The project has been developed by detecting such social cases; the emphasis is mostly on Turkish cases in the context of urban culture, and particular ones experienced through/by Turks in Belgium. FRICTIES, platform for media art at Vooruit, presents Basak Senova (Turkey) Thursday 07. December. 2006, 20.30 + connected to the Salon at 21.30 : opening of the exhibition Rejection Episodes at Vooruit + before the Salon at 18.00 : opening of the exhibition Rejection Episodes at De Centrale Basak Senova s talk in the Salon will be about the functioning of NOMAD, the different networks they are part of and their projects. This Salon is also the official opening of Rejection Episodes, an exhibit in the framework of Istanbul Ekspres, a collaboration between Vooruit en De Centrale, an old electricity factory that is now an intercultural meeting place. http://www.nomad-tv.net/rejection_episodes __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Conscious in Coma - chapter 1 - screening programme
Conscious in Coma http://www.nomad-tv.net/conscious_in_coma Conscious in Coma is an art project initiated by NOMAD in collaboration with Goethe Institut, Istanbul and Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center. The project is designed to be a long-term networking and archiving project. The name of the project indicates a simple and direct reference to the current unbalanced and devastated state of the globe accompanied by the collective silence and blindness. The project intends to collect, disseminate, and discuss the perspectives and realities of diverse positions in multiple formats. In this respect, the primary focus of the project is to trace, detect and comprehend art and cultural productions which render different cases, approaches and realities with multifaceted cultural, political and social situations. Conscious in Coma is designed to be a collaborative process of nine curators: Elena Veljanovska (Macedonia), Stefan Rusu (Moldavia), Nat Muller (The Netherlands), Vera-Maria Glahn (Germany), Basak Senova (Turkey), Jack Persekian (Palestine), Clare Davies (Egypt), Christine Tohme (Lebanon), and Amirali Ghassemi (Iran). - Chapter 1 23-25 November 2006. Screening programme at Goethe Institut, Istanbul Yeni Carsi Cad. 52, Beyoglu, Istanbul 23. November. 2006, 19:30 DO I NEED TO CHANGE TO CARRY ON? curated by Vera-Maria Glahn (Germany) Aleesa Cohene, Yvonne Brandl, Markus Bertuch, and Curtis Burz. MOLDGOLIA - project in progress curated by Stefan Rusu (Moldova) Pavel Braila, Lilia Dragneva, Veaceslav Druta, Stefan Rusu, Igor Scerbina, and Serghei Turcan. MISREADING curated by Clare Davies (Egypt) Iman Issa and Nadine Khan. 24. November. 2006, 19:30 100 YEARS OF CELEBRATING PARANOID READING curated by Christine Tohme (Lebanon) Roy Samaha, Rabih Mroué, Ali Kays, and Lina Saneh. REALITY-CHECK curated by Basak Senova (Turkey) Bengisu Bayrak, Carlo Crovato, Yane Calovski & FOS, Erhan Muratoglu, Basak Kaptan & Erik Stein, and Bengu Karaduman. SOFT INCISIONS curated by Nat Muller (The Netherlands) Jan de Bruin, Jordan Crandall, Iratxe Jaio, Raed Yassin, and Andrijana Stojkovic. A MOMENT OF CLARITY curated by Elena Veljanovska (Makedonya) Bogeska Sladzana-Giuseppe Pradella, Zaneta Vangeli, Hristina Ivanoska, Borjan Zafirovski, and Nikola Uzunovski. 25. November. 2006, 15:00 I CAN SEE curated by Jack Persekian (Palestine) Avi Mograbi. LOST IN NO SPACE curated by Amirali Ghassemi (Iran) Behrang Samadzadegan, Behnam Kamrani, Amirali Mohebbinejad, Negar Tahsili, Raha Faridi, Mohammad Reza Heydari, Ehsan Behmanesh, and Azin Feizabadi. - Chapter 2 Meetings and Panels, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul. May, 2007 As an extension of the screening programme, some of the curators and participating artists will be invited to Istanbul for a series of meetings and panels. These meetings and panels will culminate in a series of publications. Discussions on the strategies for future collaborations and the archiving process will end this chapter. http://www.nomad-tv.net/conscious_in_coma - __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] HTMlles EXPORT2 - Belgrade | Sofia | Istanbul
HTMlles EXPORT2 - Belgrade | Sofia | Istanbul www.htmlles.net/export2 www.htmlles.net www.studioxx.org www.nomad-tv.net/htmlles HTMlles Festival : EXPORT 2 October 19-29, 2006 Belgrade | Sofia | Istanbul >From the 19th-29th of October 2006, a program of art works and artists that participated in the 7th edition of the HTMlles festival themed Peripheries + Proximities will travel to 3 cities: Belgrade, Serbia ; Sofia, Bulgaria; and Istanbul, Turkey with the goal of fostering new dialog and collaborations. Through a series of focused encounters, interactive workshops, artists talks, performances and short exhibitions, the traveling Canadian artists and their works will encounter numerous curators, gallerists, cultural operators, local artists and local publics in each of the 3 cities. The touring works will be presented in parallel to programming produced by local partners and translated in English and in the respective local languages. All events are open to the public, including the interactive workshops. participating artists and curators include: Chantal Dumas [ca], Michelle Teran [ca], Caroline Martel [ca], Joanna Berzowska [ca/po], Jennifer Willet + Shawn Bailey [ca], Emily Hermant [ca], Andreja Kuluncic [cr], Maja Ciric [sr], Miroslav Karic [sr], Basak Senova [tr], Selda Asal [tr], Anica Vucetic [sr], Zana Poliakov [sr], Natasa Teofilovic [sr], Aleksandra Jovanic [sr],Yofka [bg], Veronika Tzekova [bg], Adelina Popnedeleva[bg], Diana Popova [bg], Greta Gancheva [bg], Leda Ekimova [bg], Nina Boyanova [bg], Yana Kostova [bg], Vladia Mihailova [bg], The Upgrade! Sofia and The Upgrade! Skopje, Ceren Oykut [tr], Ozlem Sulak [tr], Hatice Guleryuz [tr], Bengu Karaduman [tr], Filmmor Women's Cooperative [tr], Ulku Songul [tr], Melek Ozman [tr] and Tuna Erdem [tr]. Events in Belgrade: held at O3one Gallery and Kontekst Gallery October 19-21 Events in Sofia: held at the Red House Center for Culture + Debate October 23-26 Events in Istanbul: organized by NOMAD and held at Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center and The Apartment Project October 27-29 The HTMlles Festival is an ongoing project of StudioXX, Montreal, Canada's foremost women's digital resource centre, in operation since 1995. The HTMlles Festival, started as an annual event focused on the position of women in cyberspace, has now evolved to become an international biennial project which includes all facets of new media and web art technologies. The Montreal events now stand as a globally-known meeting place for women and feminists working in creative digital mediums and the addition of circulation projects has created an international network for Canadian new media artists. Following the EXPORT2 tour, the next HTMlles biennial event will be held in October 2007, in Montreal. As a major international event, the HTMlles Festival seeks submissions from international artists and academics and collaborations with international curators, and cultural operators. StudioXX and the HTMlles Festival receive support from numerous governmental and private bodies including : The Canada Council for the Arts, Le Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec, Heritage Canada, The Municipality of Montreal and The Canadian Embassy in Ankara. Kyd Campbell, HTMlles Festival Director - contact:[EMAIL PROTECTED] __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] HTMlles EXPORT2 - Belgrade | Sofia | Istanbul
HTMlles EXPORT2 - Belgrade | Sofia | Istanbul www.htmlles.net/export2 www.htmlles.net www.studioxx.org www.nomad-tv.net/htmlles HTMlles Festival : EXPORT 2 October 19-29, 2006 Belgrade | Sofia | Istanbul >From the 19th-29th of October 2006, a program of art works and artists that participated in the 7th edition of the HTMlles festival themed Peripheries + Proximities will travel to 3 cities: Belgrade, Serbia ; Sofia, Bulgaria; and Istanbul, Turkey with the goal of fostering new dialog and collaborations. Through a series of focused encounters, interactive workshops, artists talks, performances and short exhibitions, the traveling Canadian artists and their works will encounter numerous curators, gallerists, cultural operators, local artists and local publics in each of the 3 cities. The touring works will be presented in parallel to programming produced by local partners and translated in English and in the respective local languages. All events are open to the public, including the interactive workshops. participating artists and curators include: Chantal Dumas [ca], Michelle Teran [ca], Caroline Martel [ca], Joanna Berzowska [ca/po], Jennifer Willet + Shawn Bailey [ca], Emily Hermant [ca], Andreja Kuluncic [cr], Maja Ciric [sr], Miroslav Karic [sr], Basak Senova [tr], Selda Asal [tr], Anica Vucetic [sr], Zana Poliakov [sr], Natasa Teofilovic [sr], Aleksandra Jovanic [sr],Yofka [bg], Veronika Tzekova [bg], Adelina Popnedeleva[bg], Diana Popova [bg], Greta Gancheva [bg], Leda Ekimova [bg], Nina Boyanova [bg], Yana Kostova [bg], Vladia Mihailova [bg], The Upgrade! Sofia and The Upgrade! Skopje, Ceren Oykut [tr], Ozlem Sulak [tr], Hatice Guleryuz [tr], Bengu Karaduman [tr], Filmmor Women's Cooperative [tr], Ulku Songul [tr], Melek Ozman [tr] and Tuna Erdem [tr]. Events in Belgrade: held at O3one Gallery and Kontekst Gallery October 19-21 Events in Sofia: held at the Red House Center for Culture + Debate October 23-26 Events in Istanbul: organized by NOMAD and held at Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center and The Apartment Project October 27-29 The HTMlles Festival is an ongoing project of StudioXX, Montreal, Canada's foremost women's digital resource centre, in operation since 1995. The HTMlles Festival, started as an annual event focused on the position of women in cyberspace, has now evolved to become an international biennial project which includes all facets of new media and web art technologies. The Montreal events now stand as a globally-known meeting place for women and feminists working in creative digital mediums and the addition of circulation projects has created an international network for Canadian new media artists. Following the EXPORT2 tour, the next HTMlles biennial event will be held in October 2007, in Montreal. As a major international event, the HTMlles Festival seeks submissions from international artists and academics and collaborations with international curators, and cultural operators. StudioXX and the HTMlles Festival receive support from numerous governmental and private bodies including : The Canada Council for the Arts, Le Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec, Heritage Canada, The Municipality of Montreal and The Canadian Embassy in Ankara. Kyd Campbell, HTMlles Festival Director - contact:[EMAIL PROTECTED] __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] low res reaksiyon
- low res reaksiyon ( http://nomad-tv.net/low_res_reaksiyon ) low res reaksiyon website intends to collect visual reactions of artists and designers from Turkey towards the situation in the Middle East since July 2006. for inquiries please mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] all rights reserved by the contributors. low res reaksiyon is a NOMAD initiative. - low res reaksiyon web sitesi, Temmuz 2006’dan bu yana Ortadoğu’da yaşananlar karşısında, Türkiye'den sanatçı ve tasarımcıların görsel reaksiyonlarını biraraya getirmeyi amaçlamaktadır. sorularınız ya da katılım için [EMAIL PROTECTED] ya da [EMAIL PROTECTED] adreslerine e-posta atabilirsiniz. bu sitedeki görsel malzemenin tüm hakları adı gecen katılımcılara aittir. low res reaksiyon bir NOMAD girişimidir. - __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Upgrade!Tel-Aviv-Jerusalem 5.5.2006
Upgrade! Tel-Aviv-Jerusalem Basak Senova (TR) www.nomad-tv.net/upgrade Monday, 5.6.06, 21:00 Daila Shlomzion Hamalka 4, Jerusalem Free Entrance (presentation in english) Program: I: ³NOMAD networking as a mode of survival² talk by Basak Senova II: ³Audio Samples from ctrl_alt_del² III:³Extracts from NOMAD archive²: Turkish Light Arts (2002) ExtraStruggle Nigar (2006) Erhan Muratoglu Lost Postcard (2004-2005) Selda Asal - Ceren Oykut Four days in Cairo (2005) Selda Asal Upgrade! is an international, emerging network of autonomous nodes united by art, technology, and a commitment to bridging cultural divides. Its decentralized, non-hierarchical structure ensures that Upgrade! (i) operates according to local interests and their available resources; and (ii) reflects current creative engagement with cutting edge technologies. While individual nodes present new media projects, engage in informal critique, and foster dialogue and collaboration between individual artists, Upgrade! International functions as an online, global network that gathers annually in different cities to meet one another, showcase local art, and work on the agenda for the following year. Current Nodes: Amsterdam (Netherlands), Boston (United States), Chicago (United States), Lisbon (Portugal), Johannesburg (South Africa), Istanbul (Turkey), Montreal (Canada), Munich (Germany), New York (United States), Oklahoma City (United States), Scotland, Seoul (South Korea), Sofia (Bulgaria), Tel Aviv (Israel), Vancouver (Canada) and Wellington (New Zealand). Future Nodes: Athens (Greece), Liverpool (United Kingdom), London (United Kingdom), and Toronto (Canada), will launch in the near future. Organizations: Eyebeam, Turbulence.org, New Media Scotland, Art Centre Nabi, The Western Front, The Society for Arts and Technology (SAT), InterSpace, i-camp, DCA, CCA, No-Org.net, Art Interactive, NOMAD / santralistanbul, program angels / lothringer13, Open-Node.com, t-u-b-e, C-M.TV, Lisboa 20, AT. joburg, and the University of the Witwatersrand. Upgrade! Background: Since April 1999, a group of new media artists and curators have gathered in New York City. The first meeting took place at a bar in the east village with Tim Whidden & Mark River [MTAA], Mark Napier and founder Yael Kanarek. Upgrade! New York partnered with Eyebeam in March 2000. www.no-org.net/theupgrade __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Musrara Mix #[06]
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Musrara Mix #[06] International Festival for Art, Culture and Society, Musrara, Jerusalem 05 > 08.06.2006 http://www.musrara.co.il | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | NOMAD contribution: 05.06.2006 | 14:00 talk Afterimage: A reading of an unrecorded past of ³the other² through the works of Gülsün Karamustafa and Hatice Güleryüz by Basak Senova 05 > 08.06.2006 screenings Unawarded Performances (24mins, 2005) by Gülsün Karamustafa Making of the Wall (16:11mins, 2003) by Gülsün Karamustafa Strange Intimacy (17 mins, 2005) by Hatice Güleryüz Four Images² (22 mins, 2004) by Hatice Güleryüz 07.06.2006 | 14:30 presentation NOMAD | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] s-network newsletter #1
s1 Colloquium on sound-art in Turkey 23 May 2006, 14:00 Yildiz Technical University, Besiktas Campus Basic Design Studio of the Faculty of Art and Design NOMAD and Yildiz Technical University, Faculty of Art and Design, Combined Arts Department are organizing a meeting on the current state of the Turkish sound-art scene. The participants include artists, institutions, universities, and organizations that are active within the fields of sound. The meeting is open to the public. blog http://nomad-tv.net/s - s - network is an initiative of NOMAD for local network of sound-art in Turkey. __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Open Studio Cairo 2006
Open Studio Cairo An international residency programme in Downtown Cairo exploring creative approaches to sound. Open Studio Project 2006 takes sound - problematic in its very definition, scope and relationship to a loosely defined field of arts and culture - as its point of departure. The programme is inspired by Cairo¹s rich aural environment, one shaped by the city¹s diverse narratives of sound, sound-making traditions and ongoing explorations of sound in contemporary music and the arts. Residency Programme participants include seventeen artists, musicians and curators whose practices reflect a diversity of creative approaches to and engagements with sound, whether as a visceral or aural material, conceptual or contextual reference, or as a point of departure. At once intersecting and diverging, these diverse practices reflect the ability of sound-related work to complicate neat categories of artistic production and their conventionally associated frameworks, technologies, tools, and skills. These dynamics provide a context for the model of international exchange explored in the Open Studio Project. Rajivan Ayyappan - India Regine Basha - USA Carlo Crovato - UK Murat Ertel - Turkey Charbel Haber - Lebanon Adham Hafez - Egypt Geert-Jan Hobijn - Holland & Germany Hassan Khan - Egypt Myizer Matlhaku - Botswana Greg Niemeyer - USA & Switzerland Ceren Oykut - Turkey Maryam Rahman - Pakistan Mahmoud Refat - Egypt Mohammed Al Riffai - Egypt Basak Senova - Turkey Paulo Vivacqua - Brazil Cynthia Zaven -Lebanon An ongoing Public Programme offers a platform for interaction with the residency participants and their work. Please join us for a series of Open Studio events including, 5 - 8 May (Friday-Monday) 4pm 8 pm A video game/art piece which ³players² navigate with their voice offered both as a performance and a interactive piece; Location: Fustat Youth Center Old Cairo Ard el Musalasa Next to the new Potter¹s Village Away From the New is a collaborative art project and video game in which players navigate a simulated environment using their own voices as game controls. Based on an earlier version entitled Organum Playtest, Away From the New was developed especially for presentation in Cairo by Greg Niemeyer, Richard Shaw and Dan Perkel of the University of California, Berkeley. Friday May 5 7pm 9pm A screening of video compilations from Istanbul, curated by Basak Senova of NOMAD; Location: Contemporary Image Center (CiC) 20 Safia Zaghloul St. off Kasr el Aini St. El Mounira Cairo SNAPSHOT 1 Turkish Light Arts (2002) ExtraStruggle I/O Information Overbloated (2005) Erhan Muratoglu Derdimi Anla (1998) ZeN Istatistiklal (2004) Erhan Muratoglu - Ertug Uçar - Simge Goksoy Deniz (2005-2006) Cem Yardimci John Barret Lost Postcard (2004-2005) Selda Asal - Ceren Oykut Down-Under (2005) Guven Çatak Abstraction (2004) Serap Dogan SeashellSea (2004) Ozlem Sulak Interval Four days in Cairo (2005) Selda Asal SNAPSHOT 2 Strange Intimacy (2005) Hatice Güleryüz Nigar (2006) Erhan Muratoglu Unawarded Performances (2005) Gülsün Karamustafa Saturday, May 6 7pm 8pm A panel discussion with Regine Basha, Basak Senova and Mohammed Al Riffai on the problematics of curating sound; A discussion of the ways in which artists and curators working creatively with sound articulate and present this work in relation to conventions of artistic discipline and practice. Location: Library, Townhouse Gallery 10 Nabrawy st., off Champollion st. Talaat Harb sq., Downtown Cairo 7 9 May (Sunday Tuesday) 7pm 9pm the ultrasound of therapy An interactive installation piece in which visitors are prescribed sound therapies; Location: Goethe Institut 5 El Bustan St. Downtown Cairo the ultrasound of therapy is a sound installation inspired by the eighteenth-century French hospital La Salle des Malades. Visitors are invited to undergo a personal sound therapy and are ³treated² with sound therapies selected to provide individualized sonic experiences. These sound therapies are created by members of Staalplaat Soundsystem, Simon Wickham-Smith, and Biotechnology Makes Business Consultancy. Thursday, May 11, 8 pm 9pm Organum Playtest Performance Location:Residence of Swiss Cultural Attaché, Heinz Walker 24 Gamal El Din Abu Mohassen St., Garden City A semi-improvisational performance of Organum Playtest, a collaborative art project and video game in which players navigate a simulated environment using their own voices as game controls. Greg Niemeyer, the game¹s creator, will discuss the work with the audience. Vocalists Ahdam Hafez and Basim Wadie will perform the piece. Saturday, May 13 An open source programming workshop with artist Greg Niemeyer Hosted by OpenCraft Location:11 Nadi El Seid Street, Suite 1101 Dokki 12311, Giza Hosted by OpenCraft May 12 - 13, (Friday Saturday) 7pm 9pm Open Studio Performancebased event Location: Townhouse Gallery of contemporary art 10 Nabrawy st., off Champo
[spectre] the upgrade!istanbul #5
apologies for any cross-posting.. | THE UPGRADE!ISTANBUL NOMAD 25th of April 2006 17:00- A performance by son:DA son:DA _ artistic alliance _ Golec/Horvat _ since 2000 _ ( http://sonda.kibla.org ) has presented their work and performed in Moderna galerija Ljubljana, Institute for contemporary art Sofia, MACRO Rome, Kunstlerhaus Vienna, Tate modern London, The Renaissance society Chicago, Stedelijk Amsterdam, Contemporary art museum St.Loise, at Musikprotokoll am SteirischenHerbst Graz, International festival of animation in Utrecht, Hiroshima and Zagreb, at Sammlung Essl and on different festivals in Prague, Hull, Maribor, Florence, Berlin, Zagreb, Napoli alias on different radio and television stations. son:DA is one of the guests of the Istanbul Residency Programme at Platform Garanti supported by American Center Foundation. performative audio-video constellation 2003-2006 The technical support for this ³low-fi² (analogical) constellation, with the help of which the ³compositions² are made possible, is made from a simple sound interface alias coaxial cable, which reacts to the events, course and changes within the picture electrons on the screen of monitor-television and eventually, reacts to the simple touch of it. There is also a ³analogical² connection between audio and video signal, such as video makes, manipulates, modulates audio signal and vice verse. A simple electronic signal circle is possible. The before prepared and presented (projected) pictorial alias audio compositions make up the scores. They are fundamental materials for the performances and interactivity. The duration of one loop is defined through the length of the pictorial-audio composition-score. Manipulation occurs in treating and projecting the audio and video signal into the system, into the constellation and into the real space. Modulation happens during the process of the performance-interactivity-improvisation with constellation, with this ³low-tech² music instrument. The pictorial material of the different ³compositions² includes and is represented by moving images (found footage or original video recording), as well as animated static images, words and numbers. Compositions could be also made out of new or found audio samples alias out of very simple or complex sound scores. During the last three-year period has son:DA created a series of compositions as technical constellations with their guests (³unit 739² . ³nr.7-G² . ³nr.27-1-2-3² . ³for two monitors². ³for a question². ³for Europe².²for monitor, projector, bass and computer².³nr.25² . "composition ar_co"). More on http://sonda.kibla.org/performances.html alias http://sonda.kibla.org/constallations.html @ 17:00 due to the ongoing construction work, santralistanbul will host this meeting at Istanbul Bilgi University, Dolapdere Campus, The Court Room. | The Upgrade! Istanbul is a monthly gathering for new media artists, academicians, practitioners, curators and for all of the other actors of digital culture, organized by NOMAD and hosted by santralistanbul. Upgrade! is an international, emerging network of autonomous nodes united by art, technology, and a commitment to bridging cultural divides. Its decentralized, non-hierarchical structure ensures that Upgrade! (i) operates according to local interests and their available resources; and (ii) reflects current creative engagement with cutting edge technologies. While individual nodes present new media projects, engage in informal critique, and foster dialogue and collaboration between individual artists, Upgrade! International functions as an online, global network that gathers annually in different cities to meet one another, showcase local art, and work on the agenda for the following year. Current Nodes: Boston (United States), Chicago (United States), Lisbon (Portugal), Johannesburg (South Africa), Istanbul (Turkey), Montreal (Canada), Munich (Germany), New York (United States), Oklahoma City (United States), Scotland, Seoul (South Korea), Sofia (Bulgaria), Tel Aviv (Israel), and Vancouver (Canada). Future Nodes: Amsterdam (Netherlands), Athens (Greece), Liverpool (United Kingdom), London (United Kingdom), Toronto (Canada), and Wellington (New Zealand) will launch in the near future. Organizations: Eyebeam, Turbulence.org, New Media Scotland, Art Centre Nabi, The Western Front, The Society for Arts and Technology (SAT), InterSpace, i-camp, DCA, CCA, No-Org.net, Art Interactive, NOMAD/santralistanbul, program angels/lothringer13, Open-Node.com, t-u-b-e, C-M.TV, Lisboa 20, AT. joburg, and the University of the Witwatersrand. Upgrade! Background: Since April 1999, a group of new media artists and curators have gathered in New York City. The first meeting took place at a bar in the east village with Tim Whidden & Mark River [MTAA], Mark Napier and founder Yael Kanarek. Upgrade! New Y
[spectre] under_ctrl newsletter #3
apologies for any cross-posting.. now the under.ctrl website has updated more information and snapshots from the Graz launch: http://www.nomad-tv.net/under_ctrl/info.htm please check it out! under.ctrl a project by NOMAD developed by Basak Senova, Erhan Muratoglu, Emre Erkal curated by Basak Senova 31 March 2006 > 2 April 2006 http://nomad-tv.net/under_ctrl FORUM STADTPARK Stadtpark 1, A - 8010 Graz http://www.forumstadtpark.at under.ctrl graz launch: ³interfaces of control mechanisms² participants: Nooshin Farhid (Iran/UK), Hristina Ivanoska (Macedonia) Effie and Amir (Israel/Belgium), Zhou Hongxiang (China), Ran Slavin (Israel), Anabala (Turkey), Sala Manca (Argentina/Israel), Ligna (Germany), Erhan Muratoglu (Turkey), Michael Zinganel (Austria), Pragmatic Sanction (Austria), Vuk Cosic (Slovenia), Nicole Pruckermayr & IOhannes zmölnig (Austria), Yane Calovski (Macedonia), FOS (Denmark) and Igor Stromajer & Brane Zorman (Slovenia). loosing.ctrl screening programme: Yael Bartana (Israel), Erhan Muratoglu (Turkey), Ruti Sela & Maayan Amir (Israel), Can Turkinan & Özlem Sulak (Turkey), and Hatice Guleryuz (Turkey). panelists: Andreas Leo Findeisen (Austria), Marina Grzinic (Slovenia). moderators: Emre Erkal, Erhan Muratoglu and Basak Senova of NOMAD (Turkey). http://nomad-tv.net/under_ctrl __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] under_ctrl newsletter #2
apologies for cross-posting.. --- daily schedule for under.ctrl graz launch: (GMT +1) streaming http://ice.mur.at:8002/under_ctrl.ogg 31. March. 2006, 7pm-11pm video works, installations, documentaries and screening programme and live performance of Ran Slavin (Israel) streaming through the Internet starting from 9:20pm 01. April. 2006, 7pm-11pm video works, installations, documentaries and screening programme and live performance of Sala Manca (Argentina/Israel) streaming through the Internet starting from 9:20pm 02. April.2006, 3pm-3.30pm Ligna (DE) presentation, 3.30pm 5.30 pm panel audio streaming through the Internet starting from 3:00pm 7pm-11pm video works, installations, documentaries and screening programme and live performance of Anabala (Turkey) streaming through the Internet starting from 10:30pm streaming is hosted by ice.mur.at (Ales Zemene) under.ctrl a project by NOMAD developed by Basak Senova, Erhan Muratoglu, Emre Erkal curated by Basak Senova 31 March 2006 > 2 April 2006 http://nomad-tv.net/under_ctrl FORUM STADTPARK Stadtpark 1, A - 8010 Graz http://www.forumstadtpark.at The project series, under.ctrl, intends to define ³the interfaces of control mechanisms² which systematically compose our lives. Interfaces themselves have become the locus of control by being more effective than their underlying mechanisms, yet more invisible and subtle in normalizing such mechanisms which they veil. They operate in various layers of our daily perception and realization through the re-designing of life styles; procedures of auto-control; re-perception of histories; generating modes for social psychology; constructing communication channels; and particularly through technological embodiment. The significant influence of these interfaces, along with the direction and intensity of implicit and explicit acceptance and rejection modes, are being detected and questioned through subversive activities and reactions in different forms of expressions by artistic practices. The project follows an empirical method through various researches carried out by different artistic practices focusing on various kinds of interfaces of control mechanisms operating in the social, political, economic, cultural, geo-political, and psychological layers of our daily lives. In the same line of thought, this project is also an attempt to detect tactics and rejection mechanisms along with the ³off the record² strategies against the pressures and conditions of these mechanisms. under.ctrl graz launch: ³interfaces of control mechanisms², which is planned as an event in process with various performance formats, will put forward observations on the various aspects of the mechanisms that control our lives, in connection with their designed interfaces. Throughout these 3 days, Forum Stadtpark will host sound performances, installations and screenings of works and documentaries (in a definite time frame with a controlled and composite schedule) along with a panel that will be publicized after the event. Therefore, it will operate as a platform of discussion on how these interfaces are shaped and alter our lives in different local contexts. loosing.ctrl (Turkish-Israeli project) -as one of the sub channels of the series- will also be presented with a screening programme. under.ctrl graz launch will bring a specific emphasis to the local context through the works of Austrian artists and a local activist group. participants The participating artists of under.ctrl are Nooshin Farhid (Iran/UK), Hristina Ivanoska (Macedonia) Effie and Amir (Israel/Belgium), Zhou Hongxiang (China), Ran Slavin (Israel), Anabala (Turkey), Sala Manca (Argentina/Israel), Ligna (Germany), Erhan Muratoglu (Turkey), Michael Zinganel (Austria), Pragmatic Sanction (Austria), Vuk Cosic (Slovenia), Nicole Pruckermayr & IOhannes zmölnig (Austria), Yane Calovski (Macedonia), FOS (Denmark) and Igor Stromajer & Brane Zorman (Slovenia). Participating artists of the loosing.ctrl screening programme are Yael Bartana (Israel), Erhan Muratoglu (Turkey), Ruti Sela & Maayan Amir (Israel), Can Turkinan & Özlem Sulak (Turkey), and Hatice Guleryuz (Turkey). The panelists are Andreas Leo Findeisen (Austria), Marina Grzinic (Slovenia), Vuk Cosic (Slovenia) and Emre Erkal. Erhan Muratoglu and Basak Senova of NOMAD (Turkey) will be acting as moderators. http://nomad-tv.net/under_ctrl __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] under_ctrl newsletter #2
apologies for cross-posting.. --- daily schedule for under.ctrl graz launch: (GMT +1) streaming http://ice.mur.at:8002/under_ctrl.ogg 31. March. 2006, 7pm-11pm video works, installations, documentaries and screening programme and live performance of Ran Slavin (Israel) streaming through the Internet starting from 9:20pm 01. April. 2006, 7pm-11pm video works, installations, documentaries and screening programme and live performance of Sala Manca (Argentina/Israel) streaming through the Internet starting from 9:20pm 02. April.2006, 3pm-3.30pm Ligna (DE) presentation, 3.30pm 5.30 pm panel audio streaming through the Internet starting from 3:00pm 7pm-11pm video works, installations, documentaries and screening programme and live performance of Anabala (Turkey) streaming through the Internet starting from 10:30pm streaming is hosted by ice.mur.at (Ales Zemene) under.ctrl a project by NOMAD developed by Basak Senova, Erhan Muratoglu, Emre Erkal curated by Basak Senova 31 March 2006 > 2 April 2006 http://nomad-tv.net/under_ctrl FORUM STADTPARK Stadtpark 1, A - 8010 Graz http://www.forumstadtpark.at The project series, under.ctrl, intends to define ³the interfaces of control mechanisms² which systematically compose our lives. Interfaces themselves have become the locus of control by being more effective than their underlying mechanisms, yet more invisible and subtle in normalizing such mechanisms which they veil. They operate in various layers of our daily perception and realization through the re-designing of life styles; procedures of auto-control; re-perception of histories; generating modes for social psychology; constructing communication channels; and particularly through technological embodiment. The significant influence of these interfaces, along with the direction and intensity of implicit and explicit acceptance and rejection modes, are being detected and questioned through subversive activities and reactions in different forms of expressions by artistic practices. The project follows an empirical method through various researches carried out by different artistic practices focusing on various kinds of interfaces of control mechanisms operating in the social, political, economic, cultural, geo-political, and psychological layers of our daily lives. In the same line of thought, this project is also an attempt to detect tactics and rejection mechanisms along with the ³off the record² strategies against the pressures and conditions of these mechanisms. under.ctrl graz launch: ³interfaces of control mechanisms², which is planned as an event in process with various performance formats, will put forward observations on the various aspects of the mechanisms that control our lives, in connection with their designed interfaces. Throughout these 3 days, Forum Stadtpark will host sound performances, installations and screenings of works and documentaries (in a definite time frame with a controlled and composite schedule) along with a panel that will be publicized after the event. Therefore, it will operate as a platform of discussion on how these interfaces are shaped and alter our lives in different local contexts. loosing.ctrl (Turkish-Israeli project) -as one of the sub channels of the series- will also be presented with a screening programme. under.ctrl graz launch will bring a specific emphasis to the local context through the works of Austrian artists and a local activist group. participants The participating artists of under.ctrl are Nooshin Farhid (Iran/UK), Hristina Ivanoska (Macedonia) Effie and Amir (Israel/Belgium), Zhou Hongxiang (China), Ran Slavin (Israel), Anabala (Turkey), Sala Manca (Argentina/Israel), Ligna (Germany), Erhan Muratoglu (Turkey), Michael Zinganel (Austria), Pragmatic Sanction (Austria), Vuk Cosic (Slovenia), Nicole Pruckermayr & IOhannes zmölnig (Austria), Yane Calovski (Macedonia), FOS (Denmark) and Igor Stromajer & Brane Zorman (Slovenia). Participating artists of the loosing.ctrl screening programme are Yael Bartana (Israel), Erhan Muratoglu (Turkey), Ruti Sela & Maayan Amir (Israel), Can Turkinan & Özlem Sulak (Turkey), and Hatice Guleryuz (Turkey). The panelists are Andreas Leo Findeisen (Austria), Marina Grzinic (Slovenia), Vuk Cosic (Slovenia) and Emre Erkal. Erhan Muratoglu and Basak Senova of NOMAD (Turkey) will be acting as moderators. http://nomad-tv.net/under_ctrl __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] under_ctrl newsletter #1
apologies for any cross-posting.. under.ctrl a project by NOMAD developed by Basak Senova, Erhan Muratoglu, Emre Erkal curated by Basak Senova 31 March 2006 > 2 April 2006 http://nomad-tv.net/under_ctrl FORUM STADTPARK Stadtpark 1, A - 8010 Graz http://www.forumstadtpark.at The project series, under.ctrl, intends to define ³the interfaces of control mechanisms² which systematically compose our lives. Interfaces themselves have become the locus of control by being more effective than their underlying mechanisms, yet more invisible and subtle in normalizing such mechanisms which they veil. They operate in various layers of our daily perception and realization through the re-designing of life styles; procedures of auto-control; re-perception of histories; generating modes for social psychology; constructing communication channels; and particularly through technological embodiment. The significant influence of these interfaces, along with the direction and intensity of implicit and explicit acceptance and rejection modes, are being detected and questioned through subversive activities and reactions in different forms of expressions by artistic practices. The project follows an empirical method through various researches carried out by different artistic practices focusing on various kinds of interfaces of control mechanisms operating in the social, political, economic, cultural, geo-political, and psychological layers of our daily lives. In the same line of thought, this project is also an attempt to detect tactics and rejection mechanisms along with the ³off the record² strategies against the pressures and conditions of these mechanisms. under.ctrl graz launch: ³interfaces of control mechanisms², which is planned as an event in process with various performance formats, will put forward observations on the various aspects of the mechanisms that control our lives, in connection with their designed interfaces. Throughout these 3 days, Forum Stadtpark will host sound performances, installations and screenings of works and documentaries (in a definite time frame with a controlled and composite schedule) along with a panel that will be publicized after the event. Therefore, it will operate as a platform of discussion on how these interfaces are shaped and alter our lives in different local contexts. loosing.ctrl (Turkish-Israeli project) -as one of the sub channels of the series- will also be presented with a screening programme. under.ctrl graz launch will bring a specific emphasis to the local context through the works of Austrian artists and a local activist group. participants The participating artists of under.ctrl are Nooshin Farhid (Iran/UK), Hristina Ivanoska (Macedonia) Effie and Amir (Israel/Belgium), Zhou Hongxiang (China), Ran Slavin (Israel), Anabala (Turkey), Sala Manca (Argentina/Israel), Ligna (Germany), Erhan Muratoglu (Turkey), Michael Zinganel (Austria), Pragmatic Sanction (Austria), Vuk Cosic (Slovenia), Nicole Pruckermayr & IOhannes zmölnig (Austria), Yane Calovski (Macedonia), FOS (Denmark) and Igor Stromajer & Brane Zorman (Slovenia). Participating artists of the loosing.ctrl screening programme are Yael Bartana (Israel), Erhan Muratoglu (Turkey), Ruti Sela & Maayan Amir (Israel), Can Turkinan & Özlem Sulak (Turkey), and Hatice Guleryuz (Turkey). The panelists are Andreas Leo Findeisen (Austria), Marina Grzinic (Slovenia), Vuk Cosic (Slovenia) and Emre Erkal. Erhan Muratoglu and Basak Senova of NOMAD (Turkey) will be acting as moderators. daily schedule: 31. March. 2006, 7pm-11pm video works, installations, documentaries and screening programme and live performance of Ran Slavin (Israel) streaming through the Internet 01. April. 2006, 7pm-11pm video works, installations, documentaries and screening programme and live performance of Sala Manca (Argentina/Israel) streaming through the Internet 02. April.2006, 3pm-3.30pm Ligna (DE) presentation, 3.30pm 5.30 pm panel audio streaming through the Internet 7pm-11pm video works, installations, documentaries and screening programme and live performance of Anabala (Turkey) streaming through the Internet http://nomad-tv.net/under_ctrl __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] off--press to exit project space--skopje--03.03.2006
OFF 03.03.2006 10.03.2006 curators: Biljana P. Isijanin and Marjan Denkov artists: Nikola Uzunovski, Tihomir Topuzovski, Aleksandra Petrusevska, and Vedran Bojanovski press to exit project space Maksim Gorki 19, Skopje, Macedonia www.pro-helvetia.org.mk/presstoexit www.epp.com.mk/off press to exit project space is pleased to present the exhibition OFF The exhibition opens Friday, 03.03.2006 at 9pm. The OFF project was developed as part of the curatorial workshop conducted by Basak Senova, resident curator in the Visiting Curatorial Initiative program of press to exit project space, since June 2005. In due course, OFF has been realized through the New Project Productions program of press to exit project space with the curatorial advisory of Basak Senova. This program supports local curators and artists in developing their own projects by providing opportunities for their artistic and curatorial practices in Macedonia. OFF, curated by Biljana P. Isianin and Marjan Denkov, has been shaped by recognizing the value of exclusive contemporary art models that react towards limitations of any kind. As a curatorial practice, the emphasis is on spatial reactions and answers of the artists by even increasing the limitations of the gallery space. Such an approach would operate on different levels: (i) the artistic level: the reaction of the artist thought her/his production that would extract the energy of the gallery space; (ii) the physical level; through the spatial interventions; (iii) the reception level; by experiencing the exhibition through implied political and social dynamics of the space. Tihomir Topuzovski is interested in researching the potentials of mundane objects and their semiotic complexity that challenges the limitation of life. Aleksandra Petrusevska re-narrates the impossible personal stories of despair through the aesthetics of destruction. Vedran Bojanovski captures the gazes of ordinary people through the paths of memory and fragility. Nikola Uzunovski questions the limitations of the possibilities that are presented in the dreams, efforts and productions of the art workers. press to exit project space is supported by Swiss Cultural Program South East Europe and Ukraine and other partners. special thanks to Porta Jazz - Bitola and NOMAD - Istanbul for their support. __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] citism--press to exit project space--skopje--17.02.2006
apologies for cross-postings.. CITISM 17.02.2006 24.02.2006 curators: Elena Veljanovska, Hristijan Panev and Boris Petrovski artists: Neda Firfova, Antonio Dimitrov and Boris Petrovski press to exit project space Maksim Gorki 19, Skopje, Macedonia www.pro-helvetia.org.mk/presstoexit www.citism.tk press to exit project space is pleased to present the exhibition CITISM. The exhibition opening will be on 17.02.2006 at 9pm. The CITISM project was developed as part of the curatorial workshop, conducted by Basak Senova, resident curator in the Visiting Curatorial Initiative program of press to exit project space, June 2005. In due course, CITISM has been realized through the New Project Productions program of press to exit project space with the curatorial advisory of Basak Senova. This program supports local curators and artists in developing their own projects by providing opportunities for their artistic and curatorial practices in Macedonia. CITISM, curated by Elena Veljanovska, Hristijan Panev and Boris Petrovski, is an attempt to detect the unique characteristics of Skopje by defining the codes of the urban language. The artists of the project process their researches through different forms of expression by using and analyzing graphical languages, projecting spatial interventions, and processing sound. Each and every form operates to capture unique segments of city life. Neda Firfova¹s graphical works are located in the gallery space whilst Boris Petrovski applies an outdoor installation in front of the gallery, and Antonio Dimitrov merges indoor and outdoor inputs with his sound installation. The project itself synthesizes various forms of expression in the urban context by striving to capture the instant and multilateral ambience of the city. press to exit project space is supported by Swiss Cultural Program South East Europe and Ukraine. __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] NOMAD in CeC & CaC 2006, New Delhi
apologies for cross-postings.. --- NOMAD¹s video compilation and presentation at CeC & CaC 2006, New Delhi, India 28. Jan. 2006 SNAPSHOT 1 video compilation curated by Basak Senova NOMAD Turkish Light Arts (2002) ExtraStruggle I/O Information Overbloated (2005) Erhan Muratoglu Derdimi Anla (1998) ZeN Istatistiklal (2004) Erhan Muratoglu - Ertug Uçar - Simge Goksoy Deniz (2005-2006) Cem Yardimci John Barret Lost Postcard (2004-2005) Selda Asal - Ceren Oykut Down-Under (2005) Guven Çatak Abstraction (2004) Serap Dogan SeashellSea (2004) Ozlem Sulak 29.Jan.2006 Basak Senova will deliver an overview of the e-Creative scene of Turkey through NOMAD projects in a public auditorium session in which Osama Manzar, Aditya Dev Sood, Nitin Donde, and Marco Mancuso also take place and will be moderated by Milindo Taid. --- CeC & CaC is The Carnival of e-Creativity & Change-agents Conclave, addressing the Creative Empowerment of Individuals by the burgeoning spread of Technology, across multiple streams of Creative Human Endeavour. CeC & CaC is presented by India International Centre and The Academy of Electronic Arts, New Delhi, India. CeC is the Carnival of e-Creativity, Public Forum, themed "Touch-e Feel-e" for 2006. The event will be largely open to the public, with breakout sessions in the Gandhi-King Plaza and the Annexe rear-garden. CaC is the Change-agents Conclave, Peer Forum themed "Quo Vadis?" for 2006. http://www.theaea.org/cec_cac/ NOMAD¹s contribution is supported by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey and NOMAD Project Channel. --- http://www.nomad-tv.net __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] ctrl_alt_del news letter #6
apologies for any cross-posting.. || ctrl_alt_del news letter #6 NOMAD has updated the ctrl_alt_del site! http://www.project-ctrl-alt-del.com http://www.project-ctrl-alt-del.com/index3.htm ctrl_alt_del (istanbul 2005) site has been updated with further info about the participants and over 300 images of the event covering the boat tour, performances, workshops and presentations. 57 people from 12 countries participated in the project. In 2005, ctrl_alt_del took place in the “positionings” section of the 9th International Istanbul Biennial. The project launched on September 16th, 2005 with an opening night performance at Balans Music hall, then continued on the Bosporus, the Golden Horn, Istanbul Technical University’s MIAM studios, laboratories, library and concert hall till September 22nd. The 2005 programme for the ctrl_alt_del project has been developed by Basak Senova, Emre Erkal, Erhan Muratoglu, Pieter Snapper, and Paul Devens. Can Karadogan was responsible for the logistics of ITU activities as the project coordinator and Nusin Odelli was in charge of editing of the printed material. ctrl_alt_del was the first sound-art festival realized in Turkey, in September 2003. It was a collaboration between NOMAD, Marres, Hedah, and Istanbul Technical University Center for Advanced Musical Studies (MIAM). All through the month of September 2003, several events were realized in two cities, Istanbul and Maastricht: (i) an introductory presentation, a CD launch, performances by two artists from the Netherlands and Turkey in Marres (Maastricht); (ii) a panel and workshop series at Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Architecture and MIAM; (iii) a series of performances in Babylon, Istanbul during the opening of the 8th International Istanbul Biennial; (iv) a panel, and performance series at Marres.; (v) an exhibition at Marres; (vi) an audio CD which was distributed in Europe through Lowlands, and the international distribution of the CD-ROM was carried out by NOMAD. ctrl_alt_del aimed at introducing Turkey to sound-art via sound-art’s pioneering names, together with panels and workshops. More then 30 people from 16 different countries contributed to the project in 2003. ctrl_alt_del’s 2005 participants are: Zafer Aracagök (TR), Sakir Oguz Büyükberber (NL), DJ Selim Cenkel (TR), Eyal Danon (IL), Paul Devens (NL), every kid on speed - Antonio Dimitrov (MK), Galia Dimitrova (BG), Ibrahim Eid (Palestine), Emre Erkal (TR), Tal Hadad (FR), Boris Hegenbart (DE), Robert van Heuman (NL). Petko Dourmana (BG), Can Karadogan (TR), Uri Katzenstein (IL), Sarp Keskiner (TR), REC (TR), Reuben De Latour (NZ), MIAM: Kerem Aksoy, Deniz Arat, Barkin Engin, Erdem Helvacioglu, Burak Tamer, Tolga Tuzun, Murat Yakin (TR), Phillip Misselwitz (DE), Wissam Murad (Palestine), Erhan Muratoğlu (TR), DJ Negma (TR), Phill Niblock (US), Klaus Obermeyer (DE), Matthieu Prat (FR), REC: Orçun Bastürk, Liz Fando, Tonguç Gökalp, Randiman Kakara, Saska (TR), Binya Reches (IL), Sabreen Studio (Filistin), Ran Slavin (IL), Basak Senova (TR), Pieter Snapper (US/TR) and open call: Muni Monde, Özdemir Bayrak, Kerem Güzel, Koray Kantarcioglu (TR) and Solar Duo (TR/FI). The project has received support from NOMAD Project Channel, Istanbul Technical University MIAM (Center for Advanced Musical Studies), Bahcesehir University, Goethe Institut, Istanbul, Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam, Consulate-General of the Netherlands, MOAB Foundation, Radio Helsinki, Graz , ekw 14.90, Israel National Lottery Council for the Arts, Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, STEIM ( Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music), InterSpace, Sofia, Sabreen Studio, Ford Foundation, Kadir Has University, REC Magazine, Balans, Bant Magazine, e-tasarım, Senkron Publishing and Baskaseyler Music Art Organization. || http://nomad-tv.net/ __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] the upgrade!istanbul #3
apologies for any cross-posting.. | THE UPGRADE!ISTANBUL NOMAD 19th of January 2006 17:00- Discussion on “searching for education modules vis-à-vis the cyber realm” with Elif Ayiter and Feride Cicekoglu . Feride Cicekoglu will present an interactive work by Pınar Yoldas during the talk. Elif Ayiter Elif Ayiter is a graphic designer, artist and design instructor, living and working in Istanbul, Turkey. After graduating from the School of Applied Fine Arts in Istanbul with a BFA she obtained a Special Advanced Diploma in Art and Design from the University of London Goldsmiths College. She went to the United States on a Fulbright Scholarship where she got her MFA from the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. She worked as a graphic designer both in New York and Istanbul, in both freelance and art directorial capacities. She has exhibited her art work in Turkey with Urart and Nev Galleries from 1989 to 1999. Elif worked as a graphic designer both in New York and Istanbul, in both freelance and art directorial capacities. She has exhibited her art work in Turkey with Urart and Nev Galleries from 1989 to 1999. Since 1993 she has worked fulltime as a design faculty member at Bilkent University, Ankara (1993-1997), Bilgi University (1998-2001) and Sabancı University (2001-present). She is currently studying for a doctoral degree at the Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth, UK. Feride Cicekoglu Feride Cicekoglu has a background in architecture with a BA and MA from Middle East Technical University and Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania. After the military junda of September 12, 1980, she reoriented herself in literature and cinema. In addition to her to her short stories, essays and articles published in various languages, she has written a number of screenplays such as "Don't let Them Shoot the Kite" (Tunç Başaran, 1989), "Journey to Hope" (1990) , "The Other Side of the Sea" (Tomris Giritlioğlu, 1991), The Golden City İstanbul (Hakan Aytekin, Suha Arın, 1996) and "The House of Angels" (Ömer Kavur, 2000) Currently, she is directing the graduate program of Film-TV at Istanbul Bilgi University. @ 17:00 due to the ongoing construction work, santralistanbul will host this meeting at Istanbul Bilgi University, Dolapdere Campus, Z-08. | The Upgrade! Istanbul is a monthly gathering for new media artists, academicians, practitioners, curators and for all of the other actors of digital culture, organized by NOMAD and hosted by santralistanbul. The Upgrade! is a network of international monthly meetings in the field of art and technology. Founded by media artist Yael Kanarek in 1999, the Upgrade! exists as forums for artists, designers, critics, curators and educators who form the communities in different cities to discuss and share knowledge. Current nodes include Boston, Chicago, Montreal, Munich, NYC, Oklahoma City, Scotland, Seoul, Sofia, Tel-Aviv, Istanbul, Vancouver Lisbon and Toronto. Host organisations include Eyebeam, Turbulence.org , New Media Scotland, Art Centre Nabi, The Western Front, The Society for Arts and Technology (SAT), InterSpace, I-camp, DCA, CCA, No-Org.net, Art Interactive, santralistanbul, Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporânea. Open-Node.com and TUBE. | http://www.nomad-tv.net/upgrade http://www.nomad-tv.net __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] ISTANBUL_04: Serial Cases_1 Acquaintance
apologies for any cross-posting.. +++ Serial Cases_1 Acquaintance Istanbul Screening Programme 4 +++ http://www.nomad-tv.net/serial_cases +++ 20.12.2005 @19:00 Istanbul Bilgi University Dolapdere Campus – Theater +++ Eyal Danon (Holon, Israel) Trespassing Ruti Sela & Ma'ayan Amir (Alei Zahav, 5:30 min, 2005, Beyond Guilt#2, 18 min, 2004) | Ruti Sela & Clil Nadav (loopolice, 6:55 min, 2003) | Avi Mugrabi (Details 3&4, 9 min, 2004) | Annan Tzukerman (Anxious Escapism, 2005) | Nira Pereg (Souvenir, 5 min, 2005) | Artists without Walls (April 1st), 19:30 min, 2004). Orfeas Skutelis and Branka Curcic (Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro) Mapping Rightwing Extremism (Fighting for what's left) Brosko Prostran (Touching, 4:30 min, 2004) | Filip Markovinović (The Army and Me, 24 min, 2005) | Mirjana Batinic (Identity: Balkans, 2:30 min) | Bob Miloshevic (Algorythm, 6 min, 2004) | Dragan Predojevic (Die Faksche Idee, 54 sec) | Malden Marinkov (Déjà Vu, 9:40 min) | Miroslav Jovic (Triumph of E-will, 2:20min, 2005). +++ Serial Cases_1 Acquaintance is a joint project of ten curators from eight countries. The first stage of Serial Cases will be presented throughout November 2005 March 2006 as an exchange Video Screening Program in eight different cities. Parallel cases covered by the works along with cultural inputs from these regions are the basis for this screening programme series. +++ The curators of the project are Michal Kolecek (Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic), Antonia Majaca (Zagreb, Croatia), Basak Senova (Istanbul, Turkey), Matei Bejenaru (Iasi, Romania), Margarethe Makovec and Anton Lederer (Graz, Austria), Galia Dimitrova (Sofia, Bulgaria), Eyal Danon (Holon, Israel), Orfeas Skutelis and Branka Curcic (Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro). Digital post production of the project was coordinated by Eyal Danon of Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon. +++ Istanbul screening programme is hosted by NOMAD at Istanbul Bilgi University Dolapdere Campus – Theater --- NOMAD http://www.nomad-tv.net --- __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] ATTITUDE - video /short & experimental film/ photography festival - Bitola, Macedonia
apologies for any cross-posting.. | ATTITUDE video /short & experimental film/ photography festival Bitola, Macedonia Opening: December 24 / 2005 at 20.00 Bitola, Macedonia Cultural Center ³Magaza² (Institute and Museum) Organizer: Center for Contemporary Public Arts ELEMENTI Curator: Biljana Petrovska Isijanin PRESS RELEASE Festival ATTITUDE ATTITUDE video /short & experimental film/ photography festival curated by Biljana Petrovska Isijani encompasses more than 60 artists at Cultural Center "Magaza" in Bitola, Macedonia. Festival launches on 24.12. 2005 with a photograph exhibition and video projections. The festival will open with the screening of Fabiana Roscioli¹s video, titled ³Impossible love² by Luca Curci. The contributing artists are Vladimir Nikolic (Serbia and Montenegro), Massimo Franchi (Italy), Laura Skocek(Austria), Jovan Balov (Macedonia/Germany), Igor Ivanov-Izi (Macedonia), Alex Villar (USA), Hose Alejandro Lopez (Sweden), Aleksandar Vasiljevic/Sasa Markovic/Stephen Howard (Serbia and Montenegro), Pogan-Pagan (Macedonia), Caroline Waltman (Netherlands), Martin Zet (Czech Republic), Aleksandar Grozdanovski (Macedonia), Hristina Ivanoska (Macedonia), Boris Mladenovic (Serbia and Montenegro), Corpicrudi & Francesco Arena (Italy), Gilles Delalex & Thomas Wessel-Cessieux (France), Cecelia Condit (USA), Hilda Hiary (Jordan), Fulvio Rifuggio (Italy), Tine Louise Kortermand (France), Flavio Sciole (Italy), Claudia Mongini (Austria), Alex Grant (USA), Natasha Beste (USA), Sebastian Schluglmann & Helene A(punkt) (Austria), Ariane Maugery (France), Lasse Brandt and Bosse Sudenburg (Germany), Oneika Russell (Jamaica), Wiktor Polak (Poland), Augusto & Flavia Netto Sisa (Paraguay), Luis Gabriel Cantillo Mojica (Colombia), Pablo Ribot & Debbie Grimberg (Argentina), Roberto Belini Alves Monteiro (Brazil), Paulina del Paso Gordillo & Pedro Gonzales Deister (Mexico), Jorge Alberto Alban Dobles (Costa Rica), Sejla Kameric (Bosnia & Herzegovina), Erzen Shkololli (Kosovo), Artists Without Walls (Israel), Marcia Brandao (Brazil), Diego David Cifuentes Guerra (Ecuador), Carlos Fernando Osuna (Colombia), Seung ah Lee (Korea/UK), Kira Kim (Korea/UK), Mirna Arsovska (Macedonia), Franc Purg (Slovenia), Jakup Feri (Kosovo), Sasa Vrabic (Slovenia), Patrick Ward (United Kingdom), Damir Niksic (Bosnia and Herzegovina),Natasha Dimitrievska (Macedonia), Vanja Dimitrova (Macedonia), Peter Holl (Austria), Songul Boyraz (Austria/Turkey), Caroline Koebel (USA), Erhan Muratoglu (Turkey), Gulsun Karamustafa (Turkey), Selda Asal (Turkey), Valentin Dimanovski (Macedonia), Charles Citron (Netherlands), Elementi (Macedonia), Osman Bozkurt (Turkey), Orit Ishay (Israel), Viktor Sekularac (Serbia and Montenegro), Reinhard Bernsteiner (Austria), Katerina Veljanovska (Macedonia), Tracy Cornish( Australia), and Darko Prokes (Croatia). The photography exhibition will be opened on January 20th 2006. On 28th of December 2005, the project Rooms by Danish group N55 will be presented as a part of this event. N55 designed a room for discussions and production of non-commercial works on individual rights. This idea is very close to the concept of this festival which expresses the different conception towards some established criteria in this kind of manifestations. The organizer of ³Attitude² is the Center for Contemporary Public Arts ³Elementi² from Bitola, Macedonia. Since 1992, ³Elementi² worked as a group and in 2002 it became an association which organizes international exhibitions of contemporary art in the country and abroad. Center for Contemporary Public Arts ³Elementi² are: Biljana Petrovska Isijanin (art director), Ljupco Isijanin and Mirna Arsovska. Selectors the ³Attitude² Festival: Biljana Petrovska Isijanin/Mirna Arsovska/Ljupco Isijanin - Center for Contemporary Arts ELEMENTI, Bitola Macedonia Luca Curci International ART EXPO - Italy Sasa Janjic- REMONT Gallery Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro Margarethe Makovec- < rotor > Gallery, Graz Austria Alenka Gregoric SKUC Gallery-Ljubljana, Slovenia Basak Senova- NOMAD Istanbul, Turkey Melentie Pandilovski Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide Australia Support: The project is mainly supported by ³Pro Helvetia² Skopje (Swiss Cultural Program in Macedonia) It is partly supported by USA Embassy in Macedonia It has media & technical support by TERA Television Sponsor for the opening: BOVIN Negotino Contact persons: In Bitola Biljana Petrovska Isijanin ++389 47 252 877 or 071 746 481 In Skopje Mirna Arsovska ++389 2 3062 112 or 070 678 279 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] the upgrade!istanbul #2
apologies for any cross-posting.. | THE UPGRADE!ISTANBUL NOMAD 15th of December 2005 17:00- Discussion on ³local and global content with technological infrastructure² with Murat Ertel and Ceren Oykut of Anabala and Cemil Turun of Yogurt Technologies. Ceren Oykut will make a real-time artistic intervention during the talk. Yogurt Technologies Yogurt Technologies was founded by a group of artists and engineers in Istanbul in 1997. Since then, the firm has developed animation, animation tools, software and computer games for a wide variety of clients in Turkey and abroad. Anabala Anabala is a multidisciplinary project concentrating on Istanbul's sounds and cult. The project consists of two artists: Murat Ertel and Ceren Oykut. They create multi-disciplinary pieces by taking the aspects of humour, parody and surprise as the basic elements of their performances. They have contributed to the compilation of ctrl-alt-del 2003. Anabala has performed for the exhibitions and NOMAD programmes in Israel, Serbia and Montenegro, the Netherlands and Turkey. Anabala has also started to collaborate with musicians, sound-artists and visual artists from Cologne, Germany, and has formed another group called K34Cologne-Istanbul Cultural Exchange Project. @ 17:00 santralistanbul Silahtaraga, Halic (there is a shuttle bus from Istanbul Bilgi University, Main Entrance of Dolapdere Campus, at 16:45) | The Upgrade! Istanbul is a monthly gathering for new media artists, academicians, practitioners, curators and for all of the other actors of digital culture, organized by NOMAD and hosted by santralistanbul. The Upgrade! is a network of international monthly meetings in the field of art and technology. Founded by media artist Yael Kanarek in 1999, the Upgrade! exists as forums for artists, designers, critics, curators and educators who form the communities in different cities to discuss and share knowledge. Current nodes include Boston, Chicago, Montreal, Munich, NYC, Oklahoma City, Scotland, Seoul, Sofia, Tel-Aviv, Istanbul, Vancouver and Toronto. Host organisations include Eyebeam, Turbulence.org , New Media Scotland, Art Centre Nabi, The Western Front, The Society for Arts and Technology (SAT), InterSpace, I-camp, DCA, CCA, No-Org.net, Art Interactive, santralistanbul, Open-Node.com and TUBE. | http://www.nomad-tv.net/upgrade __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] talking game - NetartCommunityCongress 2005, Graz
apologies for any cross-posting.. - NetartCommunityCongress 2005, Graz - http://ncc05.mur.at - 8.12.2005 - Talking Game A Streaming Project by Erhan Muratoglu and Emre Erkal Programming by Hakan Guleryuz Curated by Basak Senova Hosted by Yogurt Technologies, Cemil Turun Organized by NOMAD - http://www.nomad-tv.net - __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] ISTANBUL_03: Serial Cases_1 Acquaintance
apologies for any cross-posting.. +++ Serial Cases_1 Acquaintance Istanbul Screening Programme 3 +++ http://www.nomad-tv.net/serial_cases +++ 6.12.2005 @19:00 Istanbul Bilgi University Dolapdere Campus Theater +++ Galia Dimitrova (Sofia, Bulgaria) Coffee with Sugar Daniela Kostova (I See - You See, 30 min, [15-min excerpt], 2002) | Adelina Popnedeleva & Michel Beck (The Real Thing, 4:00 min, 2000) | Kamen Stoyanov (10 Minutes World Art, 10:00 min [a 4-min excerpt], 2003) | Borjana Pandova & Todor Karastoyanov (WhateverAdvert Laboratory, 8 pieces [1-3 min each], total: 16 min, 2005) Margarethe Makovec and Anton Lederer (Graz, Austria) Exercises in Imagination Rainer Ganahl (Bicycling Tirana, 4 min, 2003) | Ivan Moudov (Traffic Control, 6 min, 2001) | Corinna Schnitt (Zwischen vier und sechs, 6:04 min, 1997/8) | Gentian Shkurti (Alice in Wonderland, 3:40 min, 1999) | Janos Sugar (The Typewriter of the Illiterate, 7:21 min, 2001) | Blue Noses (25 short performances about globalization, 10:05 min, 2003) | Erzen Shkololli (White, 10 min, 2005) | Kunst- Fu (Exercises of the Masters, 9 min, 2002) | Enes Zlatar (Thailand, 9:40 min, 2001) | Sejla Kameric (Imagine, 2 min, 2004) | Zbynek Baldran (Limit, 6:14 min, 2002) | Jakup Ferri (Don¹t tell it to anybody, 12 min, 2003). +++ Serial Cases_1 Acquaintance is a joint project of ten curators from eight countries. The first stage of Serial Cases will be presented throughout November 2005 March 2006 as an exchange Video Screening Program in eight different cities. Parallel cases covered by the works along with cultural inputs from these regions are the basis for this screening programme series. +++ The curators of the project are Michal Kolecek (Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic), Antonia Majaca (Zagreb, Croatia), Basak Senova (Istanbul, Turkey), Matei Bejenaru (Iasi, Romania), Margarethe Makovec and Anton Lederer (Graz, Austria), Galia Dimitrova (Sofia, Bulgaria), Eyal Danon (Holon, Israel), Orfeas Skutelis and Branka Curcic (Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro). Digital post production of the project was coordinated by Eyal Danon of Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon. +++ Istanbul screening programme is hosted by NOMAD at Istanbul Bilgi University Dolapdere Campus Theater --- NOMAD http://www.nomad-tv.net --- __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] ISTANBUL_03: Serial Cases_1 Acquaintance
apologies for any cross-posting.. +++ Serial Cases_1 Acquaintance Istanbul Screening Programme 3 +++ http://www.nomad-tv.net/serial_cases +++ 6.12.2005 @19:00 Istanbul Bilgi University Dolapdere Campus Theater +++ Galia Dimitrova (Sofia, Bulgaria) Coffee with Sugar Daniela Kostova (I See - You See, 30 min, [15-min excerpt], 2002) | Adelina Popnedeleva & Michel Beck (The Real Thing, 4:00 min, 2000) | Kamen Stoyanov (10 Minutes World Art, 10:00 min [a 4-min excerpt], 2003) | Borjana Pandova & Todor Karastoyanov (WhateverAdvert Laboratory, 8 pieces [1-3 min each], total: 16 min, 2005) Margarethe Makovec and Anton Lederer (Graz, Austria) Exercises in Imagination Rainer Ganahl (Bicycling Tirana, 4 min, 2003) | Ivan Moudov (Traffic Control, 6 min, 2001) | Corinna Schnitt (Zwischen vier und sechs, 6:04 min, 1997/8) | Gentian Shkurti (Alice in Wonderland, 3:40 min, 1999) | Janos Sugar (The Typewriter of the Illiterate, 7:21 min, 2001) | Blue Noses (25 short performances about globalization, 10:05 min, 2003) | Erzen Shkololli (White, 10 min, 2005) | Kunst- Fu (Exercises of the Masters, 9 min, 2002) | Enes Zlatar (Thailand, 9:40 min, 2001) | Sejla Kameric (Imagine, 2 min, 2004) | Zbynek Baldran (Limit, 6:14 min, 2002) | Jakup Ferri (Don¹t tell it to anybody, 12 min, 2003). +++ Serial Cases_1 Acquaintance is a joint project of ten curators from eight countries. The first stage of Serial Cases will be presented throughout November 2005 March 2006 as an exchange Video Screening Program in eight different cities. Parallel cases covered by the works along with cultural inputs from these regions are the basis for this screening programme series. +++ The curators of the project are Michal Kolecek (Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic), Antonia Majaca (Zagreb, Croatia), Basak Senova (Istanbul, Turkey), Matei Bejenaru (Iasi, Romania), Margarethe Makovec and Anton Lederer (Graz, Austria), Galia Dimitrova (Sofia, Bulgaria), Eyal Danon (Holon, Israel), Orfeas Skutelis and Branka Curcic (Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro). Digital post production of the project was coordinated by Eyal Danon of Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon. +++ Istanbul screening programme is hosted by NOMAD at Istanbul Bilgi University Dolapdere Campus Theater --- NOMAD http://www.nomad-tv.net --- __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] the upgrade!istanbul #1
apologies for any cross-posting.. | THE UPGRADE!ISTANBUL NOMAD 24th of November 2005 17:00- Introduction of Upgrade! Network and Upgrade! Istanbul by Basak Senova, NOMAD 17:30- A discussion on "interaction and performance" with Aylin Kalem of TECHNE, Ilyas Odman and Irmak Arkman of KargART and Cetin Sarikartal. Ilyas Odman and Irmak Arkman will present their latest performance along with some documentaries from Skopje, Macedonia. Aylin Kalem, TECHNE Holder of a BA degree in English Language and Literature, and an MA degree in History from Bogazici University, Istanbul; and a DEA degree in Dance and New Technologies from the University Paris 8, Paris. Teaching member of the Royal Academy of Dance, London. Dance teacher and choreographer. Co-founder of the TECHNE Digital Performance Platform. Giving lectures on New Technologies in Contemporary Performance, exhibiting interactive installations and writing critical articles on dance, performance and digital technologies. Currently working on the International Digital Performance Platform Project that will be held in Istanbul in Spring 2006. Instructor at the Management of Performing Arts Department of Bilgi University and at the Modern Dance Department of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University with courses on Performance Studies and Theories of the Body. TECHNE Following the suggestion that art and technology are two inseparable entities and that they together determine the evolution of mankind, TECHNE, the Digital Performance Platform, is conceived as a structure that encourages and promotes research and performances focused on the symbiosis of the body and new technologies. Ilyas Odman, KargART Cultural Manager of KargART and choreographer of "underNine dance & movement Project". He begun his movement studies in Ankara at 1997 and continued at Vienna, Çanakkale and İstanbul. Martin Sonderkamp, Alparslan Karaduman, Bürge Öztürk, Chevy Muraday, Umay Umay, Bahadır Dilbaz, Alexandre Abellan, Stephanie Parent are some artists with whom he produced together. He performed and will perform at Vienna, Portugal, Macedonia, Iceland and Belgium. During last two years he searched for an movement style which can not be classified just as "dance" and in order to achieve this, he explores for different tools of expression. Irmak Arkman , KargART Cultural Manager of KargART and freelance performing artist. She started her theater education in Mujdat Gezen Art Center. After entering to Bilgi University Department of Management of Performing Arts, she begun to work independently. She directed "In the Solititude of Cotton Fields" of Koltes as an dance thater in the Festival "Sahnesiz Theater Days" At 2005, she performed the first version of the performance series called "Mahrem Mekan- Ob/scene". In this season, she collaborated with different artists from different disciplines like Eser Selen, Bahadır Dilbaz in order to produce new versions of this performance series. Skopje-Balkan Dance Festival is an event which has been organized with collaboration of IETM and Balkan Lokomativa in order to create an general view of Balkan Dance World and to build an network between independent dance artists which are living in Balkan region. Cetin Sarikartal Cetin Sarıkartal, PhD, studied English Literature, Art History and Theory of Contemporary Art. His research focuses on performance, acting, art and visual communication. He teaches at Kadir Has University, Department of Communication Design in Istanbul. He also works as a dramaturg and director in theater. @ 17:00 santralistanbul Silahtaraga, Halic (there is a shuttle bus from Istanbul Bilgi University, Main Entrance of Dolapdere Campus, at 16:45) | The Upgrade! Istanbul is a monthly gathering for new media artists, academicians, practitioners, curators and for all of the other actors of digital culture, organized by NOMAD and hosted by santralistanbul. The Upgrade! is a network of international monthly meetings in the field of art and technology. Founded by media artist Yael Kanarek in 1999, the Upgrade! exists as forums for artists, designers, critics, curators and educators who form the communities in different cities to discuss and share knowledge. Current nodes include Boston, Chicago, Montreal, Munich, NYC, Oklahoma City, Scotland, Seoul, Sofia, Tel-Aviv, Istanbul, Vancouver and Toronto. Host organisations include Eyebeam, Turbulence.org , New Media Scotland, Art Centre Nabi, The Western Front, The Society for Arts and Technology (SAT), InterSpace, I-camp, DCA, CCA, No-Org.net, Art Interactive, santralistanbul, Open-Node.com and TUBE. | http://www.nomad-tv.net/upgrade __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
