"Electricity, Light and Illumination" project at santralistanbul

Light, Illumination and Electricity
Children Workshop Series
“Light Travels Through My Body”
Aylin Kalem (BODIG) - Beliz Demircioğlu (BODIG)
28.10.2007
10:00-12:00; 14:00-16:00

This is an information about the atelier aimed at 8-12 year old children, organized within the frame of santralistanbul Residency Project and led by BODIG “Body-based Practice Arts” co-founders Aylin Kalem and Beliz Demircioğlu.

“Light Travels Through My Body” is a movement workshop realized with specially written codes using Max/MSP/Jitter software. It is a design for perception suggestive of the redefinition of time and space.

Based on the relations of the physical body with its shadow and its processed images on the projection, this exercise is triggering improvisation and creativity by re-positioning the parameters of the space, and transfers virtual movement to actual environment.

This experience provides the participant with 4 different time-lines in real-time by creating visuals that fuse the matrices of the slightly delayed present, five seconds earlier and ten seconds earlier. The expected time-line of the movement is reversed and a relation among the movements of these different time-lines is being suggested. When the person is not moving the image becomes concrete and when there is movement the image is blurred. It is suggestive of different forms of conceiving movement and stillness.

Prior to the experimental work in interactive environment, there is a section devoted to physical games aimed at augmenting the perception of the participant in relation to the self, to the confronted other, to the one next to oneself, to the self in the group and to the occupied space. There is also a section in which the participant is presented with visual examples of possible forms of interaction. These exercises prepare the participant to a diversity of experiences in the technological environment.

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Light, Illumination and Electricity
Residency Project
Organisation:
santralistanbul, Istanbul Bilgi University
partners:
Nomad (Istanbul), SCCA – Center for Contemporary Arts (Ljubljana), Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art (Cairo), Culture Resource (Cairo), ZINC/ECM (Marseilles)
curators:
Barbara Borcic, Başak Şenova, Mohammed Yousri, Emre Baykal
Workshop coordinator:
Sibel Çetingöz
This project is supported by Anna Lindh Foundation.
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