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What is happening in these days?

2009-10-08T14:18:32Z

I am catching up with my own artistic practice. I have just finished my article for NEME and I am thinking of doing the performance here in Istanbul and in other cities across the world.
If you have time give a look at the article. I had fun writing it and working on it. Now that the commodification of labour seems to be ‘in fashion,’ it should not be too controversial either.

Affirming

2009-10-03T18:28:54Z

AFFIRMATION:

AFFIRMATION:
AFFIRMATION:

AFFIRMATION:

AFFIRMATION:
AFFIRMATION:

AFFIRMATION:

AFFIRMATION:
AFFIRMATION:

Confirming once more

2009-10-03T18:07:32Z

Confirmation:

Playing is a part of Art,

Art, is what we search for,

Search, it poses questions

Questions, are a surfacing of images











Images,

Help Me To Be Friends With Her

2009-08-23T09:22:47Z

Help Me To Be Friends With Her is a project that started in 2007 at the ICA in London. The premises of the project are based on on-line email exchanges with another artist… The writings changed into colourful and poetic personal stories where the words themselves became images in an on-line colourful playground. In these days I am putting together this project and focus on the aesthetic relationship of words and images and the blurring of distinction and boundaries between the two in the world of on-line digital media.

Existence Suspended Between Real and Virtual

2009-08-23T09:17:17Z

I ONLY EXIST WHEN I TALK WITH YOU
I ONLY EXIST WHEN I TALK WITH YOU
WHO KNOWS THE LEAST ABOUT ME
WHO KNOWS THE LEAST ABOUT ME
WHO UNDERSTANDS THE MOST ABOUT ME
WHO UNDERSTANDS THE MOST ABOUT ME
I DON’T AFFIRM ANY LONGER
I DON’T AFFIRM ANY LONGER
I DON’T CONFIRM ANY MORE
I DON’T CONFIRM ANY MORE
I ANNOUNCE THE DISAPPEARANCE
I ANNOUNCE THE DISAPPEARANCE
FROM THE DELUDED DESERT OF HUMANITY…
FROM THE DELUDED DESERT OF HUMANITY...
AND YOU ARE THERE,
AND YOU ARE THERE,
LIKE A MERMAID,
LIKE A MERMAID,
WITH YOUR VOICE CHAINING ME
WITH YOUR VOICE CHAINING ME
TO THE HOPES LIFE
TO THE HOPES LIFE
IN THE NAME OF AN OLD GAME
IN THE NAME OF AN OLD GAME
THAT WE CALL ART…
THAT WE CALL ART…

Lost Friend

2009-08-21T10:23:09Z

AND I THINK OF YOU AS THE FRIEND THAT PLAYS WITH ME!

Awaiting Answers

2009-08-21T10:12:03Z

...FEW ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS ARE COMING SOON…

Images Coming Up

2009-08-21T10:08:58Z

...LOTS OF IMAGES ARE COMING UP, SURFACING…

Images Coming Up

2009-08-21T10:08:17Z

...LOTS OF IMAGES ARE COMING UP, SURFACING…

Announcement of Old Emails

2009-08-21T09:54:36Z

ANNOUNCEMENT

WORKLOAD IS INCREASING AND LOTS OF ARTISTIC THOUGHTS ARE RUNNING IN MY MIND.

Confirmation of Existence

2009-08-17T11:07:42Z

Confirmation is the shared affirmation of the self with the other…

Buried Words

2009-08-07T09:43:34Z

And it seems to me that neither can exist without the other…

Words and Images

2009-08-03T15:02:40Z

I have been working on art project for a while on the relationship between word and text. There are many ways of considering how to structure this relationship. My interest focuses on the word as image in the context of contemporary digital media.

AND I HAVE MISSED YOU... the moments i have spent with YOU, writing in isolation from the rest of the world, are my moments of creativity

A Traveling Course

2009-04-04T05:48:59Z

This Saturday I am going with my students to Galeri Nev. I have to say that this course in artistic practice and curatorial studies is becoming more and more interesting by the day. I am working on a project with one of the students that relates to the virtual analysis of spaces and their representations within the fine arts. As an artist he is analyzing the clashes between private and public spaces and the engagement with ‘digital representation’ of the spaces as a source of inspiration and ‘affective’ engagement. It should be fun.

Squatting with Textual Images

2009-03-20T20:16:08Z

The use of digital media is not in the way in which it is prescribed, but it is in the alternatives made possible by subverting the system. Picasa slideshow becomes a display of an artistic statement. A series of words that flow as images, blurring the line of what is text and what is image.

The words like breadcrumbs were placed onto Google Corporation’s virtual space in GoogleMaps and can be seen as images in Picasa.