GloNet Event – Serendipity City Challenge

13th of May 2010 Thursday 14:00 @amberPlatform

Serendipity City Challenge (GloNet Edition)

FutureEverything is presenting a challenge to all the cities involved in the GloNet event, namely to explore spaces of serendipity in your city, and the way these give rise to creativity, energy and diversity.

GloNet-İstanbul event will take place at amberPlatform starting at 14:00
amber’10 Art and Technology Theme Lansman will follow the event after 17:30

Toplantının Türkiye ayağına ev sahipliği yapan amberplatform’un İstanbul için İletişim Ağları ve Kentsel Büyüme temasını önerdiği etkinlikte Amerikalı yazar ve yeni medya danışmanı Adam Greenfield ve Lancastester Üniversitesi ImaginationLancaster Laboratuarı Yöneticisi Drew Hemment giriş konuşmalarını yaparak bu online buluşmayı başlatacaklar.

İstanbul’u temsil edecek olan Özgür Uçkan’ın (Bilgi Ünv.) İngiliz araştırmacı Simon Marvi ile yapacağı konuşmasında Uçkan İletişim Ağlarının ve Kentin Büyümesi’ni ele alırken, Nilüfer Kozikoğlu (Tuspa – İTÜ) ise Kentsel Form ve Niceliksel Verileştirme üzerine bir sunum yapacak. Etkinlik İngilizce olarak gerçekleştirilecek.

GloNet’te yer alacak kentler Sendai (Japonya), İstanbul, Manchaster (İngiltere), Sao Paolo (Brezilya) ve Vancouver (Kanada).

Aynı anda kurulacak üç skype bağlantısı üzerinden sürdürülecek bu etkinlik saat 12′de Ingiliz Gazeteci Rachael Turner’ın Kent ve BMT konusu üzerine yürüteceği bir atölye çalışmasıyla başlayacak. İngiltere’den bu atölye için getirilen konuşma kutuları (talking boxes) aracılığıyla bu atölyeye diğer kentlerden de katılım olacak ve gerçek zamanlı global bir çalışma gerçekleştirilecek.

Günün geri kalanında her kentin belirlediği uzmanlar kendi belirledikleri temaları sunarak, kendi kentlerinin yaratıcılığını ortaya koyacak ve network çağında kentin ve kentte yaşayanların neler yapabileceğini konuşacaklar.

Istanbul’dan Özgür Uçkan (Bilgi Üniversitesi) ve Nilüfer Kozikoğlu (Tuspa)’nın birer sunumla katılacağı bu etkinlikte network konusunda çalışan Amerikalı yazar ve danışman Adam Greenfield ve Lancastester Üniversitesindeki ImaginationLancaster laboratuarı yöneticisi Drew Hemment giriş konuşmalarını yapacak ve bu online buluşmayı başlatacaklar.

Kentin neşesi, yaratıcılığı, enerjisi ve çoğulluğu birbirlerine yakın, ya da birbirleriyle katmanlar oluşturan bir çok kültür ve sistemin bir aradalığıyla oluşur. Bir kentin özü budur: BMT olmadan yaratıcılık da yoktur. Adam Greenfeld’e göre eğer yarının network kentinde online sosyal araçlar Beklenmedik Mutlu Tesadüflerin yerini alırsa kent bu çeşitliliğini ve avantajını kaybetme riskiyle karşı karşıya kalabilir. Bu yeni çağda bizlerin neler bekleyebileceğini ve neler yapabileceğimizin konuşulacağı bu etkinliğe network, kent, sanat, kültür ve gelecek üzerine düşünen herkesi bekliyoruz.

The GloNet Champions visiting the cities will each lead a half-day workshop involving figures in the local art, technology, urban and policy scene, to answer a series of questions and propose a statement that can be discussed in the FutureEverything GloNet event on 13 May.

FutureEverything invites you to explore a proposition, to discuss whether it is relevant to your city, and to feed back with recommendations that can help hone and sharpen the creative edge of your city.

Our proposition is that spaces for serendipity in the networked city are necessary for the creative edge of urban people, and for our futures to be at least as creative and diverse as our pasts.

The Serendipity City Challenge
If there is no creativity without serendipity, how do we foster serendipity in the networked city?

The Serendipity City Challenge (GloNet Edition) invites thinkers and designers in the international cities participating in GloNet to discover chance encounters, the invisible and unknown, in order to hone the creative edge of the city.

The cities are Sendai, Japan; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Istanbul, Turkey; and Vancouver, Canada.

The joy of cities, their creativity, energy and diversity, comes from the clash of many cultures and systems in close proximity, or layered on top of one another. This is the essence of the city: there is no creativity without serendipity. Adam Greenfield has observed that this diversity and edge risks being lost in the networked city of tomorrow, if social and online tools are going to replace the more haphazard ways people find things and people in the city.

This has been the spark for the Serendipity City Challenge: if there is no creativity without serendipity, how do we foster serendipity in the networked city?

Serendipity City Challenge
We have challenged thinkers and designers in the five international GloNet cities to respond to this call to action in their own local setting, to feed into the networked conference discussion.

Serendipity City Challenge Workshops
The GloNet champions will lead workshops in each of the GloNet cities responding to the Serendipity City Challenge brief by Drew Hemment. Thinkers and designers in the cities participating in GloNet are invited to respond by creating a series of statements (140 characters or less, naturally) on their own local situation, which will be published online and debated during GloNet.

Serendipity City Challenge Discussion
During GloNet at FutureEverything 2010, the GloNet champions talk us through their statements developed in the workshops, and Adam Greenfield will himself be on hand to respond to the statements, reflecting on how they answer the challenge of serendipity in the networked city.

Serendipity City Challenge Questions
These are the questions we will be posing to people in Sendai, Japan; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Istanbul, Turkey; and Vancouver, Canada: ‚

Name some places of serendipity in your city, describe the nature of the serendipity. ‚
Is it true that the creative edge of urban people comes from serendipity, chance encounters, and creative places? ‚
Is serendipity in your city necessary for the creative economy? ‚
What other factors are essential for a thriving creative and digital sector in your city? ‚
How is this situation different in your city to in other cities you know around the world? ‚
What can you do to create more a) serendipity OR b) another of these factors? ‚
How can a) serendipity OR b) another of these factors be enhanced by remote collaboration (such as GloNet)? ‚
How can a) serendipity OR b) another of these factors be enhanced by Open Data and Free Culture?

Learn More

Read an article on the Serendipity City Challenge by Drew Hemment here http://www.futureeverything.org/blog/2010/04/serendipitycitychallenge

Credits

The Serendipity City Challenge (GloNet Edition) is presented by FutureEverything in collaboration with Sendai Creative Cluster Consortium, FesLab and TRUNK in Sendai, Japan; amber in Istanbul, Turkey; Vivo arte.mov, Museu de Arte de S√£o Paulo (MASP) and Escola S√£o Paulo in Sao Paulo, Brazil and W2 in Vancouver, Canada

The GloNet champions are Paul Robinson, Jon Grant, Rachael Turner and Dave Mee.

Serendipity City Challenge is devised by Drew Hemment in collaboration with Adam Greenfield, it is a project by FutureEverything and ImaginationLancaster responding to the festival themes of Open Data and The City Experiment.

www.futureeverything.org

May 3, 2010 4:23 pm.

calls for amber’11 “NEXT ECOLOGY”

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amber’11 Art and Technology Festival
4-13 November 2011, Istanbul

NEXT ECOLOGY
call for artworks

deadline for submissions: 10th of August 2011
submit your work >

amberFestival is interested in interactive installations that explore the theme of “NEXT ECOLOGY” in today’s world.

We see the theme as a tool to think and work with, and the festival as an opportunity to raise an artistic voice. You alone will define that voice.

The works selected among the applications to this international call, will be exhibited at amber’11 Art and Technology Festival. We also encourage outdoor interactive installations.

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February 11, 2011 4:29 pm.

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July 9, 2011 11:59 am.

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Playface Intercult – Museum Quertier, Viyana

PlayFace InterCult

Duration: Apr 21 to May 8, daily 10:00-19:00
Venue: freiraum quartier21 INTERNATIONAL
Opening: Wed, Apr 20, 19:00
Free admission!

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“PlayFace InterCult” offers a playful exploration of the interfaces between humans and machines, curated by Ekmel Ertan, Martin Kaltenbrunner, and Georg Russegger.

On view in the freiraum quartier21 INTERNATIONAL exhibition space, it is presented in cooperation with the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs and features selected projects by the Interface Culture Lab at the Linz University of Art and young media art from the Istanbul-based amber Art and Technology Platform.

Participating artists include Nagehan Kurali (TUR), Osman Koc (TUR), Muharrem Yildirim (TUR) & Aytac Kanaci (TUR), Ahmet Türkoglu (TUR), Murat Durusoy (TUR), Selin Özcelik (TUR), Vesela Mihaylova (BUL), Timothy Devine (AUS), Tiago Martins (POR), Ricardo O’Nascimento (BRA), Andreas Zingerle (AUT), Reinhard Gupfinger (AUT), Mar Canet (ESP), Jayme Cochrane (CAN), and Travis Kirton (CAN). The exhibits are interactive and designed to provide visitors with a hands-on experience.

Side program in English
Date: May 6, 11:00-21:00
Venue: freiraum quartier21 INTERNATIONAL

11:00-13:00 “Morning Session” Workshop following the exhibition
14:00-17:00 amberPlatform Istanbul. Presentation of works from amberFestival, Artists-in-Residence of quartier21.
16:00-19:00 “Thumb fu” Workshop. Creating Hand-puppets with sensors and sound for Kung-Fu-Fighting. Thumb Fu! is super enhanced thumb wrestling. The artists use conductive fabric and thread to create thumb suits. When the characters touch, sound effects are triggered.
19:00 “PlayFace InterCult – Beyond Gaming”. Lecture with Ekmel Ertan, Martin Kaltenbrunner and Georg Russegger. Introduction of Interface Cultures Lab, the Ludic Interfaces Project, and amberFestival. Backgrounds to the cooperation and networks with practical examples from the exhibition will be presented.
20:00 ReactablePerformance by Martin Kaltenbrunner

image: TypeCity:Istanbul (c) Travis Kirton

Sergiye, İstanbul merkezli amber Sanat ve Teknoloji Platformu küratörü Ekmel Ertan tarafından seçilen sanatçılar, Nagehan Kuralı, Osman Koc, Muharrem Yildirim, Aytac Kanaci ve Ahmet Türkoglu, Murat Durusoy ve Selin Özçelik katılıyor. Ayrıca sanatçılar Murat Durusoy ve Selin Özçelik de sergi süresince Viyana’da Artist-in Residence programına dahil olacaklar. Serginin diğer ayağını oluşturan Linz Sanat Üniversitesi Interface Culture Programı’ndan sergiye katılacak öğrenciler ise, Vesela Mihaylova (BG), Timothy Devine (AU), Tiago Martins (PT), Ricardo O’Nascimento (BR), Andreas Zingerle (AT), Reinhard Gupfinger (AT), Mar Canet (ES), Jayme Cochrane (CA) ve Travis Kirton (CA). Sergiye seçilen işlerin özelliği interaktif olarak tasarlanmaları ve ziyaretçileri sanatla somut bir deneyime davet etmeleri.

MuseumQuartier Viyana’nın yöneticisi Wolfgang Waldner, interaktif bir yaklaşımı olan bu serginin önemini şu sözlerle anlatıyor: ‘ Bugün dijital medyayla çevremizi tamamen bambaşka bir şekilde deneyimliyoruz. Bu tabii ki, medya tabanlı algılanan bir dünya gerçekliğini de beraberinde getiriyor. Bu gelişmenin etkilerinin, sonuçlarının anlaşılması uzun vadeli bir süreç. Bu nedenle, freiraum quartier21 INTERNATIONAL’de gerçekleştireceğimiz ‘PlayFace InterCult’ sergisi de, oyunsal yaklaşımıyla, İnsan-Makine Evrimi’ni sorgulama sürecinde önemli bir yere sahip.

‘PlayFace InterCult’, MuseumsQuartier Viyana’nın kuruluşunun 10. yılı etkinliklerinin bir parçası. Bu kapsamda ayrıca, teması ‘MQ’da Avrupa’ olarak belirlenen 6 Mayıs 2011 günü, saat 11:00-21:00 arası freiraum quartier21 INTERNATIONAL’da, bu sergiye dair ingilizce bir program gerçekleştirilecek. Saat 11:00′da ‘Morning Session’ ile başlayacak olan program İstanbul amber Sanat ve Teknoloji Platformu’nun ve Türkiye’den iki misafir sanatçının etkinlikleriyle devam edecek. Saat 16:00-19:00 arası yaratıcı gençlere yönelik El Kuklası Güreşi tasarım atölyesi düzenlenecek. 19:00′da, sergi küratörlerinin „PlayFace InterCult – Beyond Gaming“ konulu konuşmasının ardından Martin Kaltenbrunner’in saat 20:00′daki ‘Reactable Performance’ ‘ı ile program sona erecek.
Interface Culture Lab’den Georg Russegger’in de dediği gibi: ‘ PlayFace InterCult’ sergisi yeni sanatsal çalışmalara, sanat, teknoloji ve tasarımı interaktif bir alanda buluşturan oyunsal bir platform sunuyor.’

„PlayFace InterCult“
21.04. – 08.05.2011, hergün 10:00-19:00 arası açık, ücretsiz
Açılış: 20.04. Perşembe, 19:00
Adres: freiraum quartier21 INTERNATIONAL, MuseumsQuartier Wien, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien
www.quartier21.at
www.interface.ufg.ac.at
www.amberfestival.org
http://www.mqw.at/en/program/detail/?event_id=6349

Koordination freiraum quartier21 INTERNATIONAL:
Mag. Elisabeth Hajek
Tel. [+43] (0)1 / 523 58 81 – 1717
E-Mail: ehajek@mqw.at

Rückfragehinweis:
Presse quartier21: Mag. Julia Aßl
Tel. [+43] (0)1 / 523 58 81 – 1738
E-Mail: jassl@mqw.at

April 18, 2011 6:49 am.

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ENTER: DATAPOLIS (April 14-17, 2011)

Prague Call for Participation | Deadline 22|2|2011

ENTER: DATAPOLIS (April 14-17, 2011) is the 5th art | tech biennale held in
Prague, Czech Republic, organized by CIANT.

ENTER: DATAPOLIS festival is realized in the framework of Global Gateweay project supported by Istanbul 2010 European Capital Of Culture – Civil Society Dialogue Grant Program. BIS (amberPlatform) is one of the partners of the Global Gateway project.
See http://datacity.amberplatform.org and http://10.amberfestival.org as well as http://www.globalgatewayproject.eu
http://www.amberplatform.org

http://festival-enter.cz

DATAPOLIS is a call for theory and practice based proposals addressing
emerging interactions of media technologies, novel visualization practices
and urban realities.

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February 11, 2011 4:22 pm.

amberConference

amberConference’10; 4-7 November 2010; Program

4-7 November 2010, İstanbul Modern Cinema Hall
www.amberconference.org

briefly

The second international conference of amberConference will be held in conjunction with the amber’10 Art and Technology Festival, on 6,7 November 2010 in Istanbul, Turkey. The aims and scope of this conference are to create a platform of discussion and dissemination for the various themes and topics in which Science, Art and Technology converge.

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October 31, 2010 12:38 pm.

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amber’10 Art and Technology Festival is on

amber’10 Art and Technology Festival, 5th-14th of November 2010,

Sanat Limanı (Antrepo No:5)

amber’10 Art and Technology Festival “DA T ACITY” 5-14 November 2010 Sanat Limanı (Antrepo No:5)
amber’10 Art and Technology Festival which has chosen its theme for this year as “Datacity” with the intention of drawing attention to the increasing importance of the generation and utilization of any kind of data on cities and urban life, will also be hosting “amberConference” which is going to be held for the second time this year focusing on issues around “City and Data”.

amberFestival organized by BIS (Body Process Arts Association) since 2007, will meet its audience for the fourth time this year.
amberFestival continuing to be the only Art and Tehnology/Media Arts festival of Turkey is being supported by Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency since 2008.

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October 21, 2010 11:36 am.

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amberPlatform hosting “PLAY THE CITY” organized by TREC

27th of September – 20th of October

YAPYAŞA, an interactive city game, is part of ‘PLAY THE CITY’, an Istanbul-Netherlands based city research and design program running until 2012, initiated by TReC (The Responsive City).

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September 27, 2010 2:13 pm.

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