WHAT LANGUAGE DOES THE CYBORG SPEAK? CULTURE, ETHNICITY AND NATIONALITY AS PART OF THE LANGUAGE OF THE CYBORG? ABSTRACT The essay will explore the concept of post-humanity as a cultural construction that, as Elaine Graham explained, [1] is a condition which affects both human and post-human social frameworks. If the post-human body is a cultural definition, does the cyborg speak English, as it is the
A new website signs another beginning for something new. There have been several websites, blogs and projects in my past that have underpinned research and aesthetic developments. Each website was focused on one particular aspect: artworks, writings, academic endeavors... This new website is conceived as an archive for both past works and projects in development. It should allow the viewer to quickly search and identify
This is a brief visual history of the 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA2011 Istanbul). The visual design that was part of the conference contributed to make of ISEA2011 Istanbul a very special event. My thanks go to Deniz Cem Onduygu, the art director, who worked with me throughout this process and to Onur Yazicigil, a colleague at Sabanci University. Small
A WEB OF PIXELATED TEXTURES AND INTRICATE BEHAVIORS ABSTRACT In order to define and understand contemporary digital media and the relationship between virtual and real, there have been traditional approaches in the definition of the virtual as equivalent to illusory and of the pixel’s aesthetic of the web as determined by technological imperatives. These approaches to the relationship between real and virtual and to the
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SIGNS IN A LANDSCAPE OF DECEPTIONS ABSTRACT The artwork A Dream Came Through started as an idea in 2006 and was developed in 2008 before the current capitalistic crisis and temporary rebirth of a social conscience in the Western World. 2006 was a time when a critique of the capitalist models of production of riches and their lack of distribution was neither
THE WAR SHAPED IDENTITIES: DESTRUCTION AS CULTURAL INHERITANCE ABSTRACT The essay will discuss the issues related to a cultural conceptualization defined by the author as ‘sedimented memory construction’ made of visible and invisible loci. The memories of buildings, land, sculptures, war destruction and social collapses are layered through processes of personal recall; thereby creating a culture of remembrance that shapes people’s identities beyond space and
ETERNALLY PRESENT & ETERNALLY ABSENT: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF A THANATOPHOBIC INTERNET AND ITS VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL EXISTENCES ABSTRACT Perhaps nothing is more representative of a thanatophobic society than the process of accumulating and storing virtual data in online environments. This process of accumulation and storage of data has become a behavioral and daily activity for many – manifested through a series of different
Hyperstrata, a conceptual curatorial framework by Lanfranco Aceti, looks at the process of layering of contemporary aesthetics. The exhibition showcases the artworks of Mark Amerika, who has been able to make of the pixel a contemporary media tool to overlay images with 21st Century's aesthetics. Roy Ascott's transmediation of La Plissure du Texte in virtual worlds with co-authors Elif Ayter, Max Moswitzer and Selavy Oh
„Not There“ is an exhibition of artworks from the Manifest.AR Venice Biennial 2011 AR Intervention still up and running at the Venice Biennial. The Kasa Gallery show presents the augmented reality Manifest.AR interventions in the Giardini and in Piazza San Marco for the 54th Venice Biennial. The exhibition at Kasa Gallery is a partnership with the art show „Not Here“ taking place at the Samek
DEATH, WAR, CENSORSHIP, FETISHISM AND HEROIC AFTERLIVES THROUGH DIGITAL NARRATIVES: THE MEDIATED REPRESENTATIONS OF ETHICS, DEATH, VICTORY AND SURVIVAL ABSTRACT It is no longer possible to shy away from the trans-mediated presence of death that symbolizes, in the context of contemporary cultural conflicts and upheavals, not only change within the wider local communities but also changes within the Western world and its relationships with ‘other’
