a series of events on "bodies & technologies" 15-25 September Istanbul

boDig 08

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A series of events on “Bodies & Technologies”
“Bedenler ve Teknolojiler” üzerine bir dizi etkinlik
within the frame of Absent Interfaces Lab Project
Absent Interfaces Lab Projesi kapsamında
partners: boDig (Istanbul), cdu (Zagreb), l’animal a l’esquena (Girona-Celrà)
ortaklar: boDig (Istanbul), cdu (Zagreb), l’animal a l’esquena (Girona-Celrà)
with the collaboration of Istanbul Bilgi University – Performing Arts Track
İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi - Sahne Sanatları Alanı işbirliğiyle
15-25 September
15-25 Eylül
Istanbul
http://www.bodig.org/

lucy: exploring a new and fragile generation x

20 march 21:30 - performances @ studio-live
tolga tüzün, ururu, andré gonçalves, rudolfo quintas, diana combo

21 march - 20 april - exhibition @ ura !
phil collins, beliz demircioğlu, andré gonçalves, rudolfo quintas, ha za vu zu, ana husman, oliver pietsch, sara nuytemans



for more info:
http://www.lucy-project.blogspot.com/

lucy

“lucy”
bodig & ART ON STAGE
işbirliğiyle,
20 Mart – 20 Nisan 2008
sergi – performanslar – atölye – buluşma
ura, studio live, garantiplatform

Güncel sanata yeni takipçiler kazandırma amacı ile kurulan ART ON STAGE ve yeni medya teknolojileriyle beden ilişkisini sorgulayan projeleri ile tanınan bodig'in ilk ortak projesi olan LUCY, ilhamını bohem ve müşkülpesent, esrik ve kırılgan, yaratıcı ve güçlü yeni bir neslin gel-git'li iç dünyasından alıyor. Sergi, bu nesli ve çağdaşlarını hayali arkadaşları ile tekrar tanışmaya, anlık karanlıkları ile yüzleşmeye, kafalarında dolanan yok melodileri birlikte dinlemeye ve mırıldanmaya, zaman mefhumunun ilkelliğine ortak olmaya, ilk'lere verdikleri tepkilerini hatırlamaya ve bir sebze pazarında iki saat geçirip eve kırmızı bir elma ile dönmeye çağırıyor.

Küratörlüğünü Derya Demir ve Aylin Kalem'in birlikte üstlendiği serginin açılış günü 21 Mart; mekan ise URA!

LUCY sergi sanatçıları: Phil Collins (UK), Beliz Demircioğlu (TR), Andre Gonçalves (PT), Ha za vu zu (TR), Ana Husman (HR), Sara Nuytemans (NL), Oliver Pietsch (DE), Rudolfo Quintas (PT)

Sergi kapsamında, gecenin gündüzden uzun olduğu son gün olan 20 Mart gecesi, sergi sanatçılarından Rudolfo Quintas ve Andre Gonçalves izleyicileri çakmak ve kibritleri ile birlikte, Studio-Live'a, burning the sound adlı interaktif ses performanslarına davet ediyor. Sanatçılar performanslarında ateş yoluyla görünmeyen kontrolün çağdaş stratejilerini inceliyor.

LUCY performans sanatçıları: Tolga Tüzün (TR), Bişnov Project (TR), Rudolfo Quintas & André Gonçalves (PT), Diana Combo (PT)

Açılışını Türkiye'nin en yenilikçi bestecilerinden, performans sanatçısı ve ses tasarımcısı Tolga Tüzün'ün (TR) yapacağı gecede, burning the sound öncesi Bisnov Project (TR), fiziksel bedenin işlenmiş gerçek zamanlı görüntüleriyle sunacakları performansları ile izleyicilerin karşısında olacak. Burning the sound sonrasında ise Diana Combo (PT), her dinlendiğinde yepyeni lekeler ve çizgiler kazandığına kimseyi inandıramadığı plaklarını yakarak, kırarak ve tekrar yapıştırarak herkesin bunu duymasına ve inanmasına çalışacagı seti ile geceyi sonlandırıyor.

Sergi açılışının ertesi günü ise Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi'nin 4. katında Lucy sanatçılarından Sara Nuytemans ve Rudolfo Quintas kafalarındaki dünyayı yeni medya teknolojileri ile nasıl gerçeğe dönüştürdüklerine dair bir konuşma yaparken, Andre Gonçalves bunu biraz daha ileri götürerek alt katta bir günlük bir arduino* atölyesi yürütecek.

Atölyeye katılım ve daha fazla bilgi için: http://lucy-project.blogspot.com/
Mekanlar: http://www.studiolive.com.tr/ http://www.ura-project.org/ http://platformgaranti.blogspot.com/

*arduino: interaktif objeler ve ortamlar yaratmaya yarayan open source (açık kod kaynaklı) elektronik prototiplendirme cihazıdır.

IETM Istanbul

Working Group within IETM : Designing Perception (20 April 2006, ITU, Istanbul)
How does the use of digital technologies contribute to the issue of “designing perception” in interactive environment in the field of Digital Performance?
Moderator: Aylin Kalem
Speakers: Isabel Valverde, Ivani Santana, Emanuele Quinz
The debate will be concentrated on the corporeality of the audience/active participant in interactive installations and will also develop further into the corporeality of the performer in stage performances.Topics:- The issue of perception in interactivity- The relation of perception to corporeality- Alterations in the senses and the perception mechanism- Perception of the “self” and the “other”- Is it really possible to design the perception?- What are the problematic political issues in the design of perception?- How could the ones at the “Margins” be integrated in this process? How much is this crucial?
http://avrupaninsinirlariraporlaracilis.blogspot.com/2007/11/altay-algy-tasarlamak.html

Working Group within IETM : Meeting in the margins: Researcher and Artist
How does the use of digital technologies contribute to a transformation of art and society?Moderator: E. Ertan
Speakers: Oguzhan Ozcan, Marcel.li Antunez Roca , Rudolfo Quintas
Topics:- changing roles- collaborations between artist and researchers- Does technology help art to reach new / wider audience- Does technology help to the democratisation of arts?- Involvement of the communities at the “margins” to the use of technology- In which way does the meeting of art and technology contribute to the transformation of the society?- Technology and art in daily use.

Working Group within IETM : Staging New Media (22 April 2006, ITU, Istanbul)
– why technology questions dramaturgy and changes the status of the audience
Moderator: Hilde Teuchies
Speakers: Aylin Kalem (Techne, Digital Performance Platform, Istanbul) and Eric Joris (Crew, Antwerp), Armando Menicacci (Anomos/Mediadanse)
Focus of the debate is the use of new technology as core-element/starting point in theatre and the impact on the creative process.Topics to be addressed : - Are interactive installations really interactive?- When does new technology in theatre become more than just a sophisticated tool for illustration?- The transformation of the audience from on-looker to ‘immersant' / user / protagonist- Interactivity vs narrativity- reality as a key dramatical component?- thematising the failures: ‘Je ne peux plus connecter'

OUT/IN OUT An interactive real-time installation

This installation is devised to blur the boundaries between outside and inside.
The wall of the gallery is freed from its materiality, it becomes transparent. A real-time video of the immediate outside is projected onto the wall and the real-time sound of the outside interferes with the image. The sound is transformed into image and thus, the idea of “hearing by seeing” is emphasized.

The spectators looking at the projected images are also projected on the outer wall of the building. The inside of the building is carried to the outside. Thus, the physical standings of outside and inside change place.

This installation was presented in .01, a new-media art exhibition called “tele-City” organized by Nomad and Siemens Art Gallery in Istanbul in November 2005

TECHNE 06 - Performance at CATI

TECHNE 06 – Performance
22 April 2006
“Swap” by Swap project (Joao Costa, Rudolfo Quintas, Tiago Dionisio)

TECHNE 06 - Workshops

TECHNE 06 – Workshops
17-22 April 2006
6 workshops were organized.

Johannes Birringer - "Media Technologies" in collaboration with Cati.
Anomos – “Videodance”
Swap – “My body is an immersive space”
Joao Costa – “Interactive Body”
Marcel.li Antunez Roca – “Systematurgy”
Jaanis Garancs – “Audio-visual operations in virtual space”

TECHNE 06 - Exhibition at BILSAR

Photos by Murat Germen & Burak İşcen

TECHNE 06 - Exhibition at Bilsar
17-22 April 2006
Artists:
Marcel.li Antunez Roca
Lynn Pook
Ana Husman
Davide Grassi
Nick Rothwell
Jaanis Garancs
Burçkaan Gürgün
Elif Ayiter
Aylin Kalem
Sinan Aşçıoğlu

Evening at ROXY

Presentation evening at ROXY

In 20 May 2004, TECHNE Digital Performance Platform organized an evening at Roxy Night Club. The evening featured interactive performances, screening and a dj session in collaboration with Nomad.

TECHNE 06

International Istanbul Digital Performance Platform
17-22 April 2006
www.techneplatform.org

TECHNE 06 :an international platform on digital performance*
www.techneplatform.org

organized by :TECHNE digital performance platform**

mission :to promote the field of digital performance in Istanbul, to present Istanbul as a channel between east and west, international networking, collaboration, exchange

date :17-22 April 2006

place :Istanbul

edition :first

type :alternative, independent, non-profit

overlapping event :IETM meeting in Istanbul 19-23 April (org. by European Cultural Association)

theme :designing perception***

activities :interactive installations, performances, workshops, seminars, working groups and presentations

artists from :France, Holland, England, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Croatia, Latvia, Turkey

venues :Bilsar, Akbank Sanat, Çatı Dance Studio, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul Technical University

partners :Dutch Consulate, Institut Français d’Istanbul, British Council, Bilsar, Akbank Sanat, IKSV (Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts), Istanbul Bilgi University, Çatı – Hareket Project, Ministry of Culture of Croatia, IARTES, NEC, Cultur Porto.

contact :aylin kalem
aylinkalem@techne-net.org
+90 532 276 92 29




* TECHNE 06 International Istanbul Digital Performance Platform focuses on digital performative arts. Body-based artistic works exploring human interaction with new interfaces will be included in the programme.


** TECHNE Digital Performance Platform is an Istanbul based initiative that aims at exploring new potentials of expression and production in digital performance. It was founded in 2003 by an interdisciplinary group of artists and researchers specializing in dance, performance, design and digital technologies. With a firm conviction that art and technology are two inseparable entities, TECHNE founders decided to organize themselves in order to introduce digital performance to the contemporary Turkish art scene.

TECHNE seeks to create an international network of artists, researchers and engineers, and to cooperate with similar organizations in order to enliven the contemporary arts milieu in Turkey, a crucial locale with a firm foot in Europe but one that also extends to the “non-western” world. The main focus here is on collaboration and exchange with the other art locales, especially ones that are not regularly part of the global art circuits.

Since its inception, TECHNE has been a pioneer in the promotion of performative digital arts in Turkey. In this vein, it has made practical as well as theoretical contributions by staging performances, exhibiting interactive installations and organizing seminars inland and abroad. It equally involved itself in local and international art networks and initiated a dialogue amongst a wide array of actors in the fields of art and digital technologies. By doing so, it created a local awareness of digital performance in Turkey as well as drawing the attention of international arts community to Istanbul as a new creative scene.

*** Theme: Designing Perception
We are living in an age where mankind is capable of designing its evolution. The developments in the fields of robotics, biotechnology and informatics provided extensions for humans. The human perception is being altered by attaching, inserting and connecting technologies. The perception has become the object of design. We are thus, in a critical phase in the history of mankind, in terms of how to design the perception and how to evolve through the future. Scientists and artists are the protagonists in this process, mutually inspiring each other. The symbiosis of art and technology has regained an inevitable role within the imagination-realisation cycle in the human evolution process. With this impulse, TECHNE emphasizing the cultural diversity of viewpoints promotes works and researches in the integration of art and technology conceived around the theme of designing perception.

TECHNE 06; the first edition of International Istanbul Digital Performance Platform took place in 17-22 April 2006 in six venues with 6 workshops, 2 workshop presentations, an exhibition of 12 interactive installations, 2 live performances, 3 working groups, 3 seminars, 6 artist presentations and 2 project meetings, in Istanbul. 30 artists from 11 different countries participated to the platform. 23 artists are hosted in Istanbul.

TECHNE 06 EVENTS:
Installations
Deleted Messages - Ana Husman (Croatia)Demokino - Davide Grassi (Slovenia)El Dibuixant – Marcel.li Antunez Roca (Spain)Raplapla - Lynn Pook, Julien Clauss (France)Simulacrum Populi – Jaanis Garancs (Latvia)Triptychos - Nick Rothwell (UK)Kırkbeşlik - Sinan Aşcıoğlu ITU TBT Lab (Turkey)LightBeat - Burçkaan Gürgün (Turkey)GeoViz - Sabanci Univ. Grafics Lab (Turkey)Bridge Project - Elif Ayiter (Turkey)TypoSonicMirror - Yıldız Technical University (Turkey)L’entre-deux - Aylin Kalem - TECHNE (Turkey)PerformancesSWAP-PROJECT – Swap (Portugal)Just Marking –Özlem Alkış, Pep Garrigues, Ekmel Ertan - TECHNE (Turkey)Workhops"Dance and Media Technologies" - Johannes Birringer (Germany)"Videodance" - ANOMOS-Armando Menicacci, Emanuele Quinz (France)"My Body is an Immersive Space" - SWAP-João Costa, Rudolfo Quintas, Tiago Dionisio (Portugal)"The Interactive Body" - SWAP-João Costa (Portugal)"Virtual Surgery on Audiovisual Space Tissues" - RIXC - Jaanis Garancs (Latvia)"Systematurgy" - Marcel.li Antunez Roca (Spain)Seminars“Media Technologies” – Johannes Birringer (Germany)“Digital Performance” in Europe (projects, institutes, groups) - Scott deLahunta (Holland), ANOMOS - Armando Menicacci (France)Softwares for Stage: “Isadora ve LifeForms” - ANOMOS-Armando Menicacci (France)Presentations of ProjectsANOMOS/MOSIGN - Emanuele Quinz (Fransa) “Transpermia” - Marcel.li Antunez Roca (İspanya) “Audio-tactiles installations” - Lynn Pook (France) “Interactive Installations” – SWAP (Portugal)“Multimedia Installations” - Jaanis Garancs (Latvia)“Blind Date. Developing a Multisensorial Interfacing Experience” - Isabel Valverde (Portugal) “Narrativity and Presence/Absence” - Andrea Bozic (Croatia)Workshop Presentations"Dance and Media Technologies" - Johannes Birringer (Germany)"Videodance" - ANOMOS-Armando Menicacci, Emanuele Quinz (France)Working Groups“Designing Perception”- mod.by Aylin Kalem. Emanuele Quinz, Isabel Valverde, Joao Costa“Meeting at the Margins: Researcher and Artist” – mod.by Ekmel Ertan. Marcel.li Antunez Roca, Rudolfo Quintas, Oguzhan Ozcan“Staging New Media – why technology questions dramaturgy and changes the status of the audience”- mod.by Hilde Teuchies. Armendo Menicacci, Eric Joris
TECHNE 06 PARTICIPANTS:
Ana HusmanAndrea Bozic Armando MenicacciAylin Kalem Burçkaan Gürgün Daniel Aschwanden Davide GrassiEkmel Ertan Emanuele Quinz Eric JorisJoao Costa Hilde Teuchies Isabel Valverde Ivana Ivkovic Jaanis Garancs
Johannes Birringer
Julien Clauss Lynn Pook Marcel.li Antunez Roca Nick Rothwell Oğuzhan Özcan Özlem AlkışPep GarriguesRudolfo Quintas Sabancı University Computer Graphics Laboratory Scott deLahunta Sinan Aşçıoğlu (İTU TBT Lab) Tiago Dionisio
Elif Ayiter

TECHNE 06 VENUES:
Bilsar BuildingMeşrutiyet cad. 164 Beyoğlu (Beyoğlu Belediyesi karşısı)
AKBANK SANATIstiklal Cad. 14-18 Beyoğlu
Çatı Dance StudioIstiklal Cad. Sadri Alışık sokak. 33 B-Blok, kat:1, d: 4 BeyoğluIstanbul Bilgi University – Kuştepe CampusManagement of Performing Artsİnönü cad. 23, Kuştepe – ŞişliIstanbul Bilgi University – Dolapdere CampusÇizgi AtölyeIstanbul Technical University – Taşkışla CampusTaşkışla, Taksim