hyponeiria

• Muxtape - a simple way to create and share mixtapes
• Morale-O-Meter - This is just a silly site where you can keep track of your morale and display it on your websicle.
• Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior (book illustrations) - a photoset on Flickr - Young, Indi. 2008. New York: Rosenfeld Media.
• Language Game - A series of performances that use customized editions of the Puppeteer motion-capture suit to communicate concepts concerning the use of motion, gesture and the spoken word as forms of communication.
• The MIT Press Fall 2008 Announcement Catalog - upcoming books from MIT Press
• Creative Mapping - A blog dedicated to the creative use of maps in art or how to map information creatively. All in all we are dedicated to showing map art.
• Popup by Marion Bataille - Fubizâ„¢ - 3d alphabet book.
• Eyes’ movements - This Newspaper has already been read. The eyes’ movements while reading were recorded, digitalized and then reproduced as a print-out.

I usually do not blog casual design studio portfolio sites and so, however, the portfolio site of Modernista is hillarious. Everything is on web 2.0, site is just an invisible interface. It is just a gateway and it is a good evidence to show how social services are powerful today.

two weeks ago, I have been to Amsterdam for a short visit. Actually the reason of my travel was installing our newsknitter sweaters exhibition into a fashionshop gallery called concrete image store. The shop is quite nice and innovative, they sell good urban style clothes (also some toys) for young people. They have also separeted the half of the room for exhibitions. Long story short, a must see stop in Amsterdam.

Not only the shop that impressed me in Netherlands but also the curator team of our exhibition,<TAG> based in Den Haag, was very nice. We had a long chat about political situation in europe, which I find it is getting more and more importance every day, as well as information visualization and its future. As expected, our long talk ended with a lot Palm beers in a bar. To be honest, I am a bit surprised that how I did not notice <TAG> earlier, because they are quite actively organizing exhibitions and publishing magazines on information visualization topic. However, it is better to know late than never, they recently published the 5th annual tag magazine related to the last exhibition called ‘Eco Aesthetics:Monitoring Ecological Data and Patterns of Human Consumption’. You may read the statement by the curators on exhibition and see some pictures from our exhibition space. Hoping to visit <TAG> and Netherlands soon again…

 

A few weeks ago Burak Arikan has released his new project called MYPOCKET on turbulence. He described the project as:

MYPOCKET discloses the artist’s personal financial records to the world by exploring and revealing essential patterns in the daily transactions of his bank account. These are the records that we usually keep secret, whereas financial institutions intensively analyze them to score our credibility. Archived on the site, the artist’s two years of spending history is analyzed by the custom software to predict future spending; these predictions sometimes determine his future choices, creating a system in which both the software and the artist adapt to one another. Influenced by today’s techno-cultural milieu, MYPOCKET presents a hybrid interface to a living physical/digital process.

Other than the visualization of this huge amount of data, for me the most attractive part of the project is the prediction feed section. It is so obvious that, it’s not so easy to calculate the prediction of humans; however, in the feed we are able to see that the software is managing to make some succesfull predictions after a long time later. So my ultimate question at this point is if Burak runs this feed for 10 years will this prediction system increase its success rate or not? We have already figured out that AI is not going to work in the near future -at least in the way that we always imagined- so, at this point the main tendancy in the media/data art/science fields is more and more turning to this predictions and analyzation algorithms/computations. It is hard for me to answer the question yet, however, I must admit that I do not expect to see so much successfull predictions from computers. I guess, I am a person who still believes the magical irrationality and the tricks of human minds that makes our life much more complex and beautiful. I hope Burak runs and even updates the project for a long time, so I will get the answer of my question.

You may also find a very well written article about the project on dügümküme. Unfortunately it is only in turkish.

• dilekaltan.com - blog - blogsite consists the works of dilek altan, istanbul based photographer and designer.
• serial transformations - a photoset on Flickr - experimental programmed 3d-structures based on serial transformations in povray
• icmihrak - political posters on turkish politics and media.
• YouWorkForThem | The Blog - usa elections candidates vector illustrations
• [ Engin Gercek ] - photography from istanbul

• LabCAST - The MIT Media Lab Video Podcast » Archive » #16 Seamless - Seamless: Computational Couture 2008 is a fashion event featuring innovative and experimental works in computational apparel design, interactive clothing, and technology-based fashion. This year’s show was produced by Media Lab student Amanda Parkes, Me
• e_e:// Istanbul - If you are everywhere, you are nowhere; If you are somewhere, you are everywhere…”Rumi” - nice timelapse video of istanbul.
• Mondrian Applet ( 3-Jun-1996) - Here is an example of an applet that simulates Modern Art. Or maybe it is modern art?
• modelle.gif (GIF Image, 1000×252 pixels) - different styles of headscarf usage.
• YouTube - Todd Terje - Glittertind - ultra stylish music video mixed from old belarusian tourism film.