amberFestival

amberFestival is the largest event in the field of Arts and Technology to be held in Turkey. It takes place in the second week of November, annually, in a variety of venues in Istanbul. amber’09 is organized by BIS Body-Process Arts, an interdisciplinary association that focuses on artistic performance and technology.

http://www.amberfestival.org

amberFestival houses a variety of performances, interactive installations, seminars and workshops by an international group of artists and thinkers. The participating artists and researchers comes from various parts of the World.

amberFestival acts as a ground of artistic exchange and cooperation as well as constitute an opportunity for Istanbul art audiences to view and experience a novel art form as executed by artists from different cultural backgrounds. In addition to the audiences who are already involved and interested in the digital art form, the festival seeks to attract a larger public that includes the general art audiences, students in diverse artistic and technological fields and children. The primary objective of amber is to promote the idea of an Art that is inseparable from technology and the human body. The incessant commodification of life, of technology and indeed of Art in the World today makes it difficult if not impossible to differentiate Art, Commodity, Technology and even the Body as autonomous spheres and ideas. Yet, the inseparability that we like to invoke is suspicious of this modern market logic. We advance an idea of Art that traces and retraces this logic and produces an artistic novelty out of this effort. We believe that the potential for artistic novelty remains and that the Art of today should respond to its own conjuncture with the help of technology and the body.

amberFestival aims to be one such response. In this respect, our objective is as much to explore and present an artistic novelty as to promote alternative, uncommon uses of common technology and the body. amberFestival seeks to attract all lovers of art and technology in Istanbul. This includes the established contemporary arts audience, technology and design professionals, students of arts, design and technology, artists and technicians from various fields and the youth. Moreover, the festival is an opportunity for people who work in purely technical fields such as robotics to connect their fields with art. Beyond arbitrary classifications of audiences, the festival’s combination of art, technology and the body seeks to create and attract its own public. As our lives are saturated with ever more digital technology, everyone is a potential viewer of this emerging art form.

For the previous festivals:

http://09.amberfestival.org
http://08.amberfestival.org
http://07.amberfestival.org

amber Art and Technology Platform project sponsored by İstanbul 2010 ECC Agency

amber Art and Technology Platform project sponsored by İstanbul 2010 ECC Agency since 2008.

amberFestival 2010 theme: DATACITY

13th of  May 2010 Thursday 18:00 @amberPlatform

amber ’10 Art and Technology festival  theme is DataCity.

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Calls for amber’10

call for papers : http://www.amberconference.org

coll for artworks : http://www.amberfestival.org

Palindrome ile röportaj

Interview with Palindrome./amberfest08

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Pierrick Regarde ile röportaj

Interview with Pierrick Regarde. /amber09

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Jeldrik Schmuch ile röportaj

Interview with Jeldrik Schmuch. /amberfest09

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Lenka Klimesova ile röportaj

Interview with Lenka Klimesova./ amber09

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Xarene ile röportaj

Interview with Xarene./amber09

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Hans Bernhard ile röportaj

Interview with Hans Bernhard

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Bill Vorn ile röportaj

Interview with Bill Vorn./ amber09

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Buğra Karabey ile röportaj

Interview with Buğra Karabey/ amber09

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Juan Manuel Castro ile röportaj

Interview with Juan Manuel Castro./amberfest 09

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Krists Pudzens ile röportaj

Interview with Krists Pudzens/ amberfest09

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