THEME LABORO ERGO SUM / I WORK THEREFORE I AM
When we talk about how the digital revolution has increasingly turned our lives around in the last three decades, we fix our gaze on the center stage and focus on the results. Our ways of doing things, from health to security, from education to entertainment have changed. This has made our life easier as much as it has caused complications. Nevertheless, a world where everyone is reachable anytime is a world much different from before, though we may admire it, get mad at it or fear it.
We have ignored the labor behind all this change and how the labor that creates the digital revolution is organized. We have disregarded the ways in which the digital revolution has transformed labor from mines to assembly lines, from homes to offices. Now that our initial fascination has ceded, the digital and the digitally transformed have made it to our daily routines. To better understand this revolution we’d like to look into its relation with labor and contextualize it beyond what is immediately visible in terms of change.
The theme of amber’15 is work and labor. Has digitalization devalued or cheapened labor? How has the relation between labor and capital changed? How widespread is insecurity with regards to work, how has unpaid labor increased? In what way has the relation between work and labor evolved? From white collar to youth who use digital tools, how has people’s attitude toward their own labor changed? Can we talk about robotic or cyborg labor? What’s the role of digital technologies in the growing unemployment, poverty and deepening class-wage gap? Have digital technologies honed the existing antagonisms? Is the reappearance of Marx’ theory of value in contemporary thought-scape an indication of a lack of change in terms of labor and exploitation?
amber’15, in its collective restructuring, invites you all to a discussion around the theme “Laboro Ergo Sum”.
EXHIBITIONS 6-15 NOVEMBER SANTRALISTANBUL (MAIN VENUE) "Laboro Ergo Sum" Exhibition Curator: Ekmel Ertan Artists: Ebru Kurbak & Irene Posch, Bager Akbay, Serkan Demir, Ioana Păun, Rafet Arslan, Onur Sönmez, Ellie Harrison, Sam Meech Collective Curation Artists: Hakan Gündüz, Zeynep Nal Sezer, Ömer Berk Yüksel, Mustafa Geyik, Egemen Gök, Osman Koç, Hamraz Lotfi & Harun M. Töle* (*@PASAJ) ADAHAN İSTANBUL Interface Cultures (Linz) Exhibit Artists: Christa Sommerer, Manuela Naveau, Martin Nadal, Rosi Grillmair, Varvara Guljajeva & Mar Canet ve diğerleri / and others "MARX 2.0" Exhibition Curator: Fırat Arapoğlu Coordinator: Bahar Ahu Sağın Artists: İnsel İnal, Çağrı Saray, Dilan Bozyel, Fırat Arapoğlu, Serkan Taycan, Yeni Anıt, Mehmet Öğüt PANELLER 6 NOVEMBER ADAHAN İSTANBUL 17.00-19.30 Migration & Labour Moderator: Ayşegül Koç Speakers: Ulaş Sunata, Omar Berakdar, Zeynep Kıvılcım The Refugee Economy Universe in Turkey Speaker: Ulaş Sunata Art Here: The Case of a Displaced Syrian Artists’ Collective in Istanbul" Speaker: Omar Berakdar The Insecure Lives of Syrian Women and LGBT Refugees in Istanbul Speaker: Zeynep Kıvılcım Short Panel: 30’ In Preparation for the GAME JAM Play for a Better World: Games for Social Change Moderator: Güven Çatak, Ayşegül Koç Speakers: Diğdem Sezen, Sercan Altun, Arda Çevik, Güven Çatak, Sercan Şengün 7 KASIM NOVEMBER AKBANK SANAT BEYOĞLU 11.00 -13.00 Art Becoming Labor, Labor Becoming Art Tiziana Terranova, Ayhan Aytes 13.30 - 15.30 Future of Labour, Labour of Future Stefan Ludwig Sorgner, Bülent Somay, Buğra Karabey 16.00 - 18.00 Labour In Art Bojana Kunst , Pascal Brunet, Burak Delier 8 KASIM NOVEMBER SANTRALISTANBUL 11.00-13.00 A Discussion of Peer-Production Practices Within the Networked Information Economy Ivo Furman, Özgür K., Cemre Kutluay Licensing as an Act of Empowerment: On Strategies to Counter-Commodify Digital Labour Ivo Furman Forking as an Outcome of Peer-Production and Copyleft Attitude for Speculating on an Unconventional, Non-Rival and Even Collaborative Governance Model Özgür K. 13.30 - 15.30 Last Exit Before the Bridge Yasemin Adıbelli, Serin Erengezgin, Akif Pamuk, Süleyman Yılmaz (Yeni İnsan Yayınevi) 16.00 - 18.00 Panel for the Special Issue of the Journal of ‘Toplum ve Bilim’ on Labour Ayhan Aytes, Tiziana Terranova, Ergin Bulut 18.30 - 20.30 Attention Economy and Distributed Authorship in Media Art Christa Sommerer, Manuela Naveau, Michaela Ortner LINZ UNIVERSITY "Interface Cultures" WORKSHOPS 7 KASIM NOVEMBER İTÜ TAŞKIŞLA 10.00-17.00 Connecting Cities Research Workshop : Creative Touch to Sensitive Messages CCN Project Presentation Media Facades and City Screens Presentations: Ekmel Ertan, Onur Sönmez, Burçkaan Gürgün, Korhan Kaya, Epitome, Mehmet Erkök, Müge Belek 10:30-17:30 Imaginary Offices.experience design for new generation Şebnem Soher, Ayşegül Karaman, Esra Akdere, Enes Çaglar Atölyesi Kayıt: sbsoher@gmail.com SANTRALISTANBUL-BİLGİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ (E1 Binası 101.B) 10.00 GAME JAM: "Migrant Labour" Ayşegül Koç, Güven Çatak, BUG, GDT 12.00-13.00 Make Your Own Robot! YAP! WORKSHOP FOR KIDS Cansu Yalçıner, Eser Epözdemir, Rüya Yalçın 14.00-15.00 Introduction to Coderdojo WORKSHOP FOR KIDS Cansu Yalçıner, Eser Epözdemir, Rüya Yalçın 8 KASIM NOVEMBER SANTRALISTANBUL 12.00-13.00 Introduction to Coderdojo WORKSHOP FOR KIDS Cansu Yalçıner, Eser Epözdemir, Rüya Yalçın 14.00-15.00 Make Your Own Robot! YAP! WORKSHOP FOR KIDS Cansu Yalçıner, Eser Epözdemir, Rüya Yalçın 18.00 (Finish: BİLGİ ÜNİVERSITY E1 BUİLDİNG 101.B) GAME JAM: "Migrant Labour" Ayşegül Koç, Güven Çatak, BUG, GDT 19.00-20.30 (BİLGİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ E1 Binası 101.B) GAME JAM Presentation Workshop leaders and participants: Ayşegül Koç, Güven Çatak, BUG, GDT 13-14-15 NOVEMBER SANTRALISTANBUL 10.00-13.00 / 14.30-17.30 Disclosure of Creative Labour Osman Şişman, Özgün Dilek 14-15 NOVEMBER SANTRALISTANBUL 10.00-13.00 / 14.00-17.30 Data Visualisation on Labour Kemal Şahin PERFORMANCES, SCREENINGS, TALKS 7 KASIM NOVEMBER - CMT SAT SANTRALISTANBUL_Kontrol Odası 19:00 Performance Night Canned Fit (aka Christine Schörkhuber) AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCE NOHlab ( Deniz Kader - Candaş Şişman ) & Osman Koç & Eser Karaca (Visualisation with NOS Visual Engine ) İZLEK 8 NOVEMBER SANTRALISTANBUL 19.30 İZLEK / I. Session: Whose Voice?: Relation Between Choreographer, Performer and Spectator Aydın Teker ve Gizem Aksu, Erinç Aslanboğa Performans / Performance: Hallo! 9 KASIM NOVEMBER SANTRALISTANBUL 19.30 İZLEK / II. Session Making of the Collective Hareket Atölyesi, Funda Özokçu Movie: Ülke/Yol-culuk/Hafıza / Country/Journey/Memory 13 KASIM NOVEMBER SANTRALISTANBUL 19.30 İZLEK / III. Session Space: Dreams, Construction, Transformation, Sharing ÇAK (Çıplak Ayaklar Kumpanyası), Berna Kurt Video seçkisi / Video Selection 15 KASIM NOVEMBER SANTRALISTANBUL 19.30 İZLEK / IV. Session Getting Organized to be Present and Visible Young Choreographers Event Sanatta Görünürlük Festivali / Visibility in Arts Festival Film/Performance: Selected Pieces 14 KASIM NOVEMBER SANTRALISTANBUL 15.00-17.00 Te-le-je-nik II Özge Ersoy, Bikem Ekberzade ÖZEL ETKİNLİKLER / SPECIAL EVENTS 6 KASIM NOVEMBER 19.30 FESTİVAL AÇILIŞI / FESTIVAL OPENING ADAHAN İSTANBUL 6 KASIM NOVEMBER 22.30 AÇILIŞ PARTİSİ / OPENING PARTY COOP 13 KASIM NOVEMBER 22.30 KAPANIŞ PARTİSİ / CLOSING PARTY COOP