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YAP! Children’s Workshop

7 NOVEMBER- SATURDAY:

12:00- 13:00 /  “Make Your Robot!”

Participant: 15 persons

The workshop has no specific prerequisites.

Registry: eser@amberplatform.org

14:00-15:00 / “Coderdojo Meeting Workshop”

Participant: 15 persons

Prerequisite: Bringing Laptop is advised.

Registry: cansu.yalciner@gmail.com

 

8 NOVEMBER – SUNDAY:

12:00- 13:00  /  “Coderdojo Meeting Workshop”

Participant: 15 persons

Prerequisite: Bringing Laptop is advised.

Registry: cansu.yalciner@gmail.com

14:00-15:00 / “Make Your Robot!”

Participant: 15 persons

The workshop has no specific prerequisites.

Registry: eser@amberplatform.org

 

Partners: British Council, Maker Türkiye, İskele 47

Place:  İstanbul Bilgi University santralistanbul Campus, Energy Museum

 

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One window for seeing / One window for hearing

Women, in every era of the history, have been the most eminent target of the sovereignty made by the government and the society. Individual and communal interests when combined with cultural ties have introduced various roles for women; and thus leaving no choice for her but to submit to the created structure.

This project is focusing on the women living inside and outside of Iran and their experiences of being a “woman” and an “Iranian”.

Iran is considered as a starting point for this project. The project hopes to create an environment where women from all over the world will be able to communicate through their mutual problems and emotions. Furthermore, in light of this project Iranian women will find the chance to get in touch with women living in different countries all-over the world.

The direct contact method preferred in the project is intended to let the participants express themselves first-hand, freely and effectively. This will also make it possible to capture the reality of the subjects expressed by the participants.

Accordingly we have asked Iranian women living inside the country or those who have immigrated or the second generation of immigrants currently living in different parts of the world the following questions:

– how do you feel about being a woman in Iran? In the country that you currently reside in, how does it feel to be a female Iranian immigrant?

– If you are a working woman, what are your thoughts about womanhood in the place you work?

What is your massage for women living around the world as an Iranian woman?

The answers will be given in the form of a video captured by the person themselves (sort of a selfie video); these videos will be applied on a world map which will then get played by clicking on the specific country on the map by the viewer.

 

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Digital to Analog Work Converter

As a result of expertise, vertical learning and free market economy, we can no longer determine the equivalent of labor in different branches of business. Money can be converted to everything, and everything can be converted to money, but if we take money as a medium of conversion, we see that the money-labor parity is also not accurate. On the other hand, since media like labor, happiness, agony are not measurable, it is also impossible to compare, which creates the illusion of higher value in measurable media.  Digital to Analog Work Converter, takes the “Work = Force x Displacement” formula from physics as a reference to visualize computer related work in our increasingly measurable lives.

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Disclosure of Creative Labour

Osman Şişman, Özgün Dilek //////14-15 NOV
10:00 – 13:00, 14:30 – 17:30

Today production and consumption, work and leisure merge into each other, and thus each and every individual partake a tremendous collective production: All of us not only participate in the turning of the wheel as we reply work emails in the middle of the night on our smartphones, which may well be considered as the extension of assembly line, but also unconsciously update maps, produce demographic and biometric data, enliven advertisement and finance economies, and employ ourselves as 3D printing operators and photography artists.

The collectivity aspect is no trouble: It is great, we should always produce collectively. However, the question is how the political economy of such production works. The workshop we propose is an introduction to understand political ecnomy of creativity. Mapping techniques which have recently been super-popular will be critically employed to look into the quotidian practices of creative labour, and to disclose the ever-present network of exploitation thereof.

While producing audiovisual material in this mapping process, we will use the very means of the very same network: Laptops, smartphones, wireless internet, Arduino, etc. The participants may feel free to choose their own technique. However, we may well need colour pencils, sheets of paper, scissors and strings.

We have to limit the number of participants to 10 persons. You can send a short paragraph of intent which includes information on what do you do for your work and your interests till 11.11.2015 to the following address  : sismanos@gmail.com

Place: İstanbul Bilgi University santralistanbul Campus, Energy Museum

Registry: sismanos@gmail.com

 

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Data Visualisation on Labour

14, 15 NOV – 10:00 – 13:00 / 14:00 – 17:30

In scope of 15.amber festival, the special workshop are organized to show perseverence, continuity and labour of Amber Platform. Participants of workshop will work to transform data of AMBER festival to infographics in 2 days. They will catch chance to visualize the importance and value of festival which is organized independently in every year. They will also discover and practise technics of data visualization deeply.

Place: İstanbul Bilgi University santralistanbul Campus, Energy Museum

 

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HUMANOID LABEL

by Ömer Berk Yüksel, Mustafa Geyik and Egemen Gök

What is so astonishing about the fact that our prisons resemble our factories, schools, military bases, and hospitals-all of which in turn resemble prisons?” Foucault

Labelling is the main impact in between these five different organizations, Foucault mentions on society commonground. For example hospitals labels sicknesses, schools labels successes/failures. Those organizations undertake potentia power with this process. Regarding all these criterias, is social media transforming to one of these institutions or has been transformed to one, already?

www.humanoidlabel.com

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My Turked Ideas

MY TURKED IDEAS is an excurs-performance that questions the value of ideas and intellectual labor. Hundred ideas of artworks had been purchased via Amazon Mechanical Turk in 2013 and 2014 and are presented and resold in performative settings. The artist is initiating a game and the recipients find themselfs caught in processes about value creation and are rethinking intellectual property and market strategies.

(Please find the copy of some ideas presented, that the artist left after initiating the game last weekend. If you are interested in getting involved, please contact the artist via her website www.crowdandart.at)

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Students’ Approach to Money

“Money Never Sleeps” by Martin Nadal, “Art Retriever” by Rosi Grillmair, “Shopping in One Minute” by Varvara Guljajeva & Mar Canet and others

In this lecture and demo several recent examples of artworks by Interface Cultures Students will be presented. They all deal with aspects of money, interaction and economy.

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The Value of Art

“The Value of Art” is a series of interactive paintings by Laurent Mignonneau and Christa Sommerer dealing with the attention economy and value creation in the art world. Attention is the new currency in our media based society. But attention is physically limited and therefore has become very precious. Attention can also be turned into actual monetary value. For the “The Value of Art” series we buy existing paintings at auction houses and equipped them with sensors that can measure the exact time viewers spend in front of the painting. A small thermal printer is also attached to the frame. At the first exhibition the initial value of the artwork, including all expenses and the artists working time, appears printed out on the paper of the thermal printer. When the work is shown, it will start counting the number of visitors and the amount of time they spend looking at the painting. 10 seconds of user attention amounts to 1 Euro of value increase. The painting will constantly update its value, making the whole process of value creation for this artwork totally transparent. The more people look at the work, the more valuable it will become. “The Value of Art” deals with the working time value of the artists as well as viewers time value as they look at the paintings.

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Natalia, Turn the Light on

Ioana Păun focuses in her work on making visible the undocumented services performed by migrants, many of them unregistered aliens working for low pay in European households. In the project “Natalia, turn the light on” calorie counters are used to symbolically store the energy expended by the illegal housekeeper and use it to turn on the light in the exhibition space. The light thus only works through migrant labor, and as soon as they stop working, darkness reigns. We are also showing in the exhibition Ioana Păun’s film “Romania Enterprise,” which drafts a dystopian scenario of Romanian society, a society that is no longer conducted as a state but as a private enterprise.