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?
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“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.
“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.
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.
by Candaş Şişman
CYCL is a word that points to CYCLE. It refers to the starting and ending points of the processes we are dealing with and it correlates this with a natural phenomenon; CYCLONE. Also it points out the cycles that revealed by the similarities between MACRO and MICRO scales in the universe.
This project creates a sensorial simulation of circularity: a system that always works, stops and restarts. It cannonades the audience with information and perception for a short time and cuts off abruptly. It confronts the audience with NOTHING through this contrast and represents an experience based on MOMENT and NULLITY and only aimed at feelings, while we are eluding the chaos of complexity and information in the world that we live socially.
About the General structure of the project, Circularly hung, intertwined fragments will begin rotating along with the fan which is positioned at the centre of the screen, as the animation reflected upon it begins playing. Simultaneously, the synchronised sound design is activated as well. Through the use of fans, the sense of touch ¬¬providing an air current within in the area.
