Apr 13, 2021Digital Technology meets Cultural Heritage: Can a lockdown change art and culture experience?If you don’t like visiting virtual museums or galleries nowadays, you are not alone. Very first days of Covid-19 outbreak, almost every cultural heritage institution rushed to publish their collections online, organise online exhibition openings and establish virtual guided tours. When all this “virtual insanity” started in mid-May, it seemed like everyone was excited, except me. Don’t get me wrong, I am an ultimate…Lockdown5 min readLockdown5 min read
Apr 13, 2021AN UNFORGETTABLE MUSEUM EXPERIENCE. MISSION IMPOSSIBLE?HOW DID I BECOME A DIGITAL CURATOR? My heart breaks every time someone says museums are boring because I think exhibitions can be a powerful melting pot for cultural heritage assets with the help of technology and the touch of design. I trained as a designer and then specialised in curation and exhibition studies before I became…Virtual5 min readVirtual5 min read
Oct 16, 2020Bir Sanal Sergiyi Harika Yapan Nedir?Sergiler, kültür kurumları tarafından genellikle yıllar boyu planlanarak küratöryel pratiğin bir çıktısı olarak halka sunulur. Mart 2020'de yaşanan olağanüstü durum, aniden bu son adımın fiziksel olarak gerçekleşmesini engelleyerek izleyicilerin evlerinde kalmasına neden oldu. Fakat aynı zamanda bir itici güç olarak, birçok kültür kurumunu dijital koleksiyonlarını tanıtmak ve sergilerinin sanal turlarını…Art6 min readArt6 min read
Jun 1, 2020CREATING PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE ARCHIVESTaeyoon Choi is an artist, educator, and activist based in New York and Seoul. His art practice involves performances, electronics, drawings, and installations that form the basis for storytelling in public spaces. He graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and co-founded the School for Poetic Computation…Design6 min readDesign6 min read
Jun 1, 2020STOPPING THE TIME AT GOOGLEEmelie Röndahl is a weaving artist based in Gothenburg, Sweden. She works specifically with the weaving technique rya, also known as the Ghiordes knot or the Turkish knot. Her project, Google Weaving Stop-time, exhibited as a part of the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial — A School of Schools, connects weavers…Design5 min readDesign5 min read
Jun 1, 2020LEARNING FROM YOUR DIGITAL SELFHow can you learn from your digital avatar? An I: Talking to My Digital Self, a project by Camilo Oliveira, generates a digital self of you that studies all your thoughts and experiences, talks to you and helps you learn from you. …Design4 min readDesign4 min read
Jun 1, 2020TAKING THE TIME TO LOOK UP ABOVEFounded by Andrea Anner and Thibault Brevet, AATB studio conceives, develops and produces workshops, objects and installations. Investigating the potential of robotics to exist outside the realm of factory floors, the studio operates at the intersection of art, design and technology. As part of 4th Istanbul Design Biennial — A…Design5 min readDesign5 min read
Jun 1, 2020EXPLORING THE TIME SCHOOLThe 4th Istanbul Design Biennial’s Time School was in part born out of research from Z33 — House for contemporary art’s Studio Time research cluster. Delving into concepts such as hyper-speed, deep time, expansion of time, the Time School explores strategies and models to create this time of attention, where…Design6 min readDesign6 min read
Jun 1, 2020CHARTING NEW FORMS OF SURVIVALISMHannes Bernard and Guido Giglio have been collaborating since 2012 on interdisciplinary projects that merge research and design. Giglio is an architect from Brazil and Bernard is a graphic designer from South Africa; both graduated from the Sandberg Institute’s Design Master programme. Based between Amsterdam, Cape Town and São Paulo…Design5 min readDesign5 min read
Jun 1, 2020LEARNING FROM THE STREETSNur Horsanalı graduated from the Industrial Product Design Department of Istanbul Bilgi University in 2017 and is currently doing her master’s in Product and Spatial Design Department at Aalto University, Finland. During her studies in Istanbul, she observed how, on the streets, problems were solved in an impulsive way. She…Design5 min readDesign5 min read
