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Applicants got together to evaluate the proposed projects for amber’15:

The maker-artist gatherings that took place in the last two months within the amberPlatform’s amber’15: Laboro Ergo Sum open call created a framework that promotes collaboration between different disciplines while enabling a democratic grounds to discuss specific modes of production caused by these very differences. The open-minded nature of the meetings resulted in receiving many proposals including projects, articles and theoretical work in response to the call for participation for this year’s amberFestival theme of Laboro Ergo Sum (I work, Therefore I am). The deadline for CFP was July 31.

How the evaluation process was like?

The members of the amberPlatform pre-selected the projects proposed by the July 31, 2015 deadline of open call for amber’15 by artists, makers, art critics and theorists in line with the maker-artist gatherings. On 17 August, the Collective Jury members were announced via e-mail to individual participants.

Collective Jury (consisting of project applicants) got together on 22 August 2015 at StudioX, to evaluate the projects created by project owners. Every project’ conceptual frame, the relation with the theme and the method was discussed in the meeting. It was a very productive meeting, we discussed many topics and learned a lot from each other. No final selection made but we decided to stay in touch through online means and make a second meeting to make final selection depending of the financial and physical conditions.

Keep thinking and creating together! And let’s keep meeting!

The ‘get-together’s initiated with amber’15 Art and Technology Festival in mind serve as a basis for future meetings of arts, technology and society that amberPlatform currently works on. We are very pleased to announce that we plan to keep holding these meetings as of September. Follow us on our facebook page (www.facebook.com/amberFestival ) for info on our meet-ups and activities.

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In collaboration with EUROPE REFRESH, we bring local projects to the global level.

Last month, amberPlatform has taken steps for a new collaboration with “EUROPE REFRESH” team. Thanks to the collaboration that will provide project owners from Turkey the possibility of presenting their projects in Brussels and Paris via amberPlatform communication network, many projects from Turkey will have the opportunity to meet with supporters and have visibility on a global level.

Let’s Free the Possibilities

Les Halles de Schaerbeek, KissKissBankBank and Le Carreau du Temple join forces for the third edition of EUROPE REFRESH (9th-11th October in Brussels, 30th October – 1st November in Paris). The first 2 editions of this participatory event promoting a creative revolution led by citizens helped fund almost 60 projects.

There will be a crowd funding platform, a pool of know-how and initiatives presented by a network of dedicated partners, the possibilities ballroom, conferences, talks, brunch, a bar, sustainable meditation actions, the wall of possibilities and workshops for promising young and older talents.

Come with your family and friends, join the curious minded, the trend setters, the activists and everyone else. You’ll discover new projects and meet their creators, you’ll help them fund-raise their ideas and share your knowledge with them. Together, let’s free  the possibilities !

Detailed information: http://www.halles.be/dbfiles/mfile/5500/5577/ER_EN.pdf
Application form: http://www.halles.be/dbfiles/mfile/5500/5576/Application_For_Form.pdf
Europe Refresh website: http://www.halles.be/en/209/

for help and more information please write to   amberPlatform

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CREATIVE TOUCH TO SENSITIVE MESSAGES

! date change: Workshop postponed to 12-18 October; application deadline 5th of October

A research workshop by amberPlatform

In the frame of Connecting Cities Network (CCN) Project, partners believe that the city screens and architectural media facades are public spaces. With this consideration they wanted to get city-screens had social content more then the commercials; they also researched means of converting the city screens and architectural media facades into a medium for arts.

amberPlatform as a partner of CCN project and as an NGO working in the field of technology and art with a focus on cities as commons, artistic interventions in the cities, empowering citizens by the new technologies since 2010. Considering the city screens and architectural media facades, we believe citizens should have the chance to get their message powerful and impressing with its size, since the size matters in this capitalistic society of spectacle surrounded by media with no content. Hence we wanted to provide a medium impressive with its size, add a bit of creative touch and wisdom to the sensitive content provided by people.

We are organizing a one-week research workshop to develop an open-source, cheap and simple, easily producible and ready-programmed media screen system / architectural media façade.

We invite researchers, makers, artists, engineers, thinkers and all kind of creators to the research workshop in the frame of pre events of amber’15 Art and Technology Festival and part of Connecting Cities Network Project activities. The workshop will take place in 12th and 18th of October at Taşkışla İTÜ. The workshop program will be announced later on sensitivetouch.amberplatform.org.

As a follow-up to the workshop, a hackathon will be held on 31st of October and 1st of November on data/info visualization and sensitive content creation on “CITY and LABOUR” for the media façade created in the workshop that will be exhibited during amber’15(*).

Please send a short mail about your motivation and background  to info@amberplatform.org  with the subject “creative touch” for application till 5th of October.

http://creativetouch.amberplatform.org

Organiser:
amberPlatform/BIS
Partners:
CCN, İTÜ, Arkitera, [f]FLAT

(*) This year amberFestival will take place in between 6th and 15th of November in İstanbul. amber’15 focuses on the labour in this post digital age, titled “Laboro Ergo Sum”

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“Paratactic Commons”

The decade that followed 9/11 witnessed a radical regression of communal energies, forcing us to live strictly in individual spheres; the fear and control society in the guise of a war on terror, the tendency of nation-states to impose their ideological agendas onto everyone and everything under their control and the conflicts and collaborations of a global consumerist economy that urges the rapid privatization of public goods have all taken a toll on the common values of human societies around the Globe.

The commons that we need to regain entail a broad spectrum. They range from ecological unbalances, which result from the privatization of natural resources, to the ‘de facto’ privatization of judicial systems, which has led to the degradation of a justice that is common to all.

Meanwhile, the ever-popularizing digital media, beginning with the Internet itself as a common resource, has been a major source of inspiration in revitalizing the idea of the commons. More specifically, the capacities offered by new media have helped to re-understand that information is a ‘common’ as well as the right to access information.

amber’12 selects as its theme ‘Paratactic Commons’: Can digital commons be an alternative platform to launch a political thought whose main aim is sharing, transparency, and freedom to access information? What can we learn from free software’s, copyleft movements, peer-2-peer systems, the logic of open source, and creative commons? Could the digital-commons help for the creation of another form of economy and ecology? Could humans share their common resources rather than exploit them? What kind of paratactic artistic strategies could digital commons consist of?

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Isofield

If we consider that the new media provides a wider and more liberal sharing of information than public space, we can observe that the new media possesses a greater expanse of space, which derives from real world. As e compare these two spaces, we can see that the new media is far more organic and variable whereas the public space is shaped and limited by state and authority.
We might envisage the aforementioned spaces as an entwined and layered structure. Without doubt, public space constitutes the central point of departure. What manner of form would be achieve, if we attempted to physically mould this abstract spaces that have no physical substance? Some data might be consulted during the formation of this form. For instance, the information concerning “the proportion of resources and methods of data circulation”.

Can we reverse this physical data visualization, which is produced out of non-physical information? By covering a physical surface with a digital layer, can we soften the concept of reality between the “physical” and “digital”?

Digital data sharing; reification of the real-world space and value of the new media and coating the resultant parametric surface with a digital layer, by employing ISOHIPS mapping method, which provides physical data on the surface forms. Combining an information, which is originally physical, with a non-physical information (isohips-digital media) and re-digitizing the physical result; an audio-visual installation that questions and aims for the entwining of these two concepts.

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Netless II

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Netless is an intervention into the crystallized and thus stagnated infrastructure of the Internet. The artist tries to define an alternative data change strategy that would liberate network users by using pedestrian ways, roads, metro and bus lines as the vectors of data distrubution, to create a parasitic type of network.

Artist:
Danja Vasiliev [:tr]

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Berlin Farm Lab

Architect-artist Valentina Karga works on the idea of self-sufficiency in a city. Berlin Farm Lab, is a platfrom which she shares her knowledge and designs along with “How to” and “Do It Yourself” videos, The design is a combination of systems that already exist, although combined in a nothingis-wasted logic.

 

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Interactive Hopscotch

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For many people, childhood means memories. Interactive Hopscotch aims to trigger childhood memories in a playful manner by using a well-know children’s game, hopscotch with interactive surroundings.

Artist:
Reha Dişçioğlu[:tr]
Bir çok kişi için çocukluk, anılar anlamına gelir. Etkileşimli Seksek( Interactive Hopscotch), bilindik çocuk oyunlarından sekseği interaktif bir ortamda kullanarak, çocukluk anılarını oyuncu bir şekilde tetiklemeyi hedeflemektedir.

Artist:
Reha Dişçioğlu[:]

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Avian Flight Simulator

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Avian Flight Simulator is an experimental work to bring the experience of dream flying into reality which is controlled by body movements.

Artist:
Mert Akbal[:tr]
Avian Uçuş Simülatörü, rüyada uçma deneyimini gerçekleştiren, katılımcının vücut hareketleri ile kontrol edilebilen, deneysel bir çalışmadır.

Artist:
Mert Akbal[:]

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The Last Power is Silence

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We live in a world of constant acoustic manifestations. Total absence of tonal phenomena and incentives can be found nowhere since matter itself is always present. But there is a silence which we all know. Induced by active listening, we come in direct contact to our personal, inner world. In my work, The Last Power is Silence, the sound screen is a symbol for the space where situations mutually interact. White noise, which is the sum of all frequencies in the audible range, emerges from the screen. An insistent expanse of sound confronts the listener with its shapeless, indeterminate and colorless form. Material: umbrella, piezos, cable, audio system The work of Clara Oppel is positioned at the intersection of sound / space / installation / sculpture. It meanders in the gaps of perception, somewhere between the perceived and the real world of sounds and objects. It is more about the silence, full of noises, sounds, and tones. Her work intervenes physically in the room, increasingly evading the material and opening space for the non-visible.

Artist:
Clara Oppel[:tr]
Clara Oppel’in çalışmaları ses, uzay, enstalasyon ve heykelin kesiştiği yerde konumlanmıştır. The Last power is Silence, algılanan ile gerçek olan ses ve objeler arasındaki algı açıklıklarında dolanır. Sessizlik, gürültü, ses ve tonları kullanılmıştır. Çalışma, fiziksel olarak mekana müdahale ederek, zamanla, görünmez olana alan yaratır.

Artist:
Clara Oppel[:]