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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…

After a long break of my posts, (besides the automated delicious bookmarks ;)) now I am hoping to post more on my blog regarding the projects that I am involved or interested. Even the fact that most of the blog subscribers are using a feed reader, I also did a slight design update on the blog that improves readability. Hopefully there will be more interviews and also some turkish content in the future. Stay tuned.

Our data visualisation project with Ebru Kurbak, newsknitter, is going to be a part of the ‘Seamless‘ fashion show in Boston. The show scheduled to 30th January and it covers a wide collection of fashion projects related to technology. Unfortunately it is not a free show however you may purchase the tickets on the seamless website if you are interested. You may also check newsknitter website or see some pictures on flickr.

I decided to make some interviews with good artists/designers/thinkers and publish them at this blog to open some discussion, exchange the ideas and maybe create some vibration among different people in the field. This serie is not going to be the ‘most serious’ interviews, however, I am hoping that we will make some nice chats with friends. So the first interview is already online. It was a very nice interview with Neil Freeman from fakeisthenewreal.org. We talked on mapping the data, thinking on public spaces and urban culture. Check it out now!

And the thing is that we get very bored. Really bored. What happened to fun, to subversion, and to the idea of creating just for the sake of it? Does it ring the bell? Is this really the future? Turn off your computer. Close your eyes. Breath deeply and answer this question:
Would you like to restart the system?

So this is quotation from concept text of this year’s OFFF festival in Barcelona. Since 2001, OFFF is taking its place in art & design scene by aiming to bring people together who are related to software aesthetics, new languages for interactive & visual expression and so on.

The festival hosted quite important names during the last 6 years such as Amit Pitaru, Neville Brody, Hi-Res! and lots of others. I have already bought my tickets, arranged everything, I even submit some designs for this year’s catalogue.(You see one of them above). We are still waiting for the announcement of the full program by re:freshing their home page!

Hello people,

after a quite enough long time, I have finalized the setup of my blog. Here you will find my observations on other projects/websites and small personal works as frequent as possible (hopefully on a daily regular :). Peace.