hyponeiria

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.

• computational drawings - artwork by david lu
• The History of Visual Communication - This website attempts to walk you through the long and diverse history of a particular aspect of human endeavour: The translation of ideas, stories and concepts that are largely textual and/or word based into a visual format, i.e. visual communication.
• Design View / Andy Rutledge - Killing Some Bad Layout Conventions - As good design further penetrates the Web, once highly-regarded conventions fall into disfavor and are replaced by more effective ones.
• Blame It On The Voices: Chewing Gum Sculptures - Italian artist Maurizio Savini has distinguished himself by using a very unusual material for his sculptures: pink chewing gum.
• Eurobad ‘74 - an exhibition of Europe’s worst interiors of 1974.

• Feltron Eight - "The Feltron Annual Report is designer Nicholas Felton’s report of his last year, a detailed catalog of personal minutia like amount of coffee consumed, music listened to, books read, locations visited etc."
• Merdanchik.com - a blog consists nice illustrations and drawings.
• 1930s-40s in Color - a photoset on Flickr - These vivid color photos from the Great Depression and World War II capture an era generally seen only in black-and-white.
• The Decapitator - a photoset on Flickr - Someone is chopping the heads off posters in the Shoreditch area.
• shahee ilyas » Flags By Colours - Flags of the world as piecharts. Each sector of these piecharts is proportional to the area of the colour on the respective flag.
• YouWorkForThem | Profile Magazine: Aesthetic Apparatus - Interview with Aesthetic Apparatus

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.

• Obscene Interiors - a photoset on Flickr - These interiors are too fantastical not too share and in combination with the invisible pornography creates intrigue.
• Mininova Launches Content Distribution Service - The popular BitTorrent site Mininova officially launched its Content Distribution service, an easy way for indie publishers to share their content with a wide audience, for free of course.
• shrinkingcities : Welcome - Shrinking cities are a cultural challenge to us. In the Shrinking Cities project, architects, academics and artists investigate recent developments in Detroit, Ivanovo, Manchester / Liverpool and Halle / Leipzig - and make suggestions.
• Outsides - A Red Bull Street Art Project - NIXFITTI is a project by a Graffiti writer collective from Berlin. They remove Graffiti from an entire block of apartments in the city center. They look like a real anti- graffiti company, with a big van and overalls with the company’s name on it.
• [ Yonkis.com ] - amazing graffiti on evolution.

• track07 - visual communication design students exhibition, istanbul
• b11 presents.. - motion graphics studio based in istanbul.
• Colour: Design & Creativity - Home - Welcome to Colour: Design & Creativity - the new online journal from the Society of Dyers and Colourists (SDC), for the professional and academic design community.
• Map Gallery of Religion in the United States - The following series of county-level choropleth maps, which reveals the distribution of the larger and more regionally concentrated church bodies, draws on this resource.
• David Rumsey Historical Map Collection - The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has over 15,800 maps online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps and other cartographic materials.