I will be presenting Sonicfields.net project.

Here is the abstract;

SonicFields: an immersed sonic experience

SonicFields explores an immersed sonic experience in a virtual 3D environment through a 2D flat screen surface. Users are allowed to register and upload their sounds to create their own soundscapes. With its user-centric accumulation points, SonicFields-as its name proposes- is a remediated 3D soundscape, a model of sonicworld with multitude of sounds emerging from various vibrations.

Keywords: Digital neighborhoods, Digital Communities, Soundscapes

Web: http://interactionlab.biz/sonicfields

Vehbi Koc Foundation American Hospital Art Gallery is hosting Selcuk Artut’s information age touched exhibition “A/B”. Exhibition is mainly focusing on issues of understanding and perception and it will be held open between 10th of February till 20th of March 2010. Visitors are able to visit the gallery everyday starting from 10:00 to 19:00 except Sundays.

Exhibition Information

Said something? So, what was that? Who is talking to whom? Everything that is something says something to others. To get what is meant, it is even useless to see the speaker. Engraved surfaces are no longer permanent, all information are shallow. Recording narrowed, capacity enhanced. As we talked, we observed that differences became evident and awareness increased. Interrogators, unconvinced of their messages’ transmission, are everywhere. I call for the patterns classified under the buttons that I believe to be commanding. You may say that mostly there is nothing left to write or make. No, though the combinations are used up, equation is not yet verified.

“A/B” is not a soundless exhibition. In fact, it has various problems with expression. Presenting seven various art projects impressed by the information age art, it is trying to talk.

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Here is the link for further info about the exhibition space and you may download the event’s program here.

Here is the index of the A/B:

p 009-011 : Touching Technology, What is technology touching art?, Computers don’t yet laugh by Tim Syth
p 013-031 : My Art Work : Languageless – 2009 – Text by Anne-Laure Oberson
p032-p061 : My Art Work : Swap Text for Image – 2009 – Text by Selçuk Artut
p062-p077 : My Art Work : An Ordinary Day of an Extraordinary Woman – 2010 – Text by Lanfranco Aceti
p078-p091 : My Art Work : You Can’t Tell the Difference – 2005 – Text by Selcuk Artut
p095-p105 : My Art Work : Substairs – 2007 – Text by Selcuk Artut
p106-p119 : My Art Work (with Replikas): Radio Freak – 2003 – Text by Bayram Candan

ISBN : 978-975-6523-20-9

If you want a copy, please send me an email : email[at]selcukartut.com

I was invited to do a talk about my art experience for Computer Science Department of Istanbul Bilgi University. I believe a lot of people enjoyed it well, indeed I am one of them. Below is the text that includes my talk’s topic.

No Matter What, I am still an ARTIST

Selçuk ARTUT was trained as a  mathematician, later on delved into topics of music and sound during his studies. Currently he is practicing as a professional musician and playing with Replikas, and released 5 music albums in the past. In addition to his music career, he is also heavily involved with visual design, he is a developer of several tools and applications in that field. In his talk, Selçuk Artut is going to explain how his career persists in convincing him to be identified as an artist no matter what his aunt calls him an “Atom Scientist”.

This project was based on a research idea questioning inter-relations between communication tools namely images and texts. all internet users were offered to participate and throughout the activity, there had been 520 participatory users, uploading various visual materials to the website. We have received more than 2000 pictures within 27 days, and 800 were elected to create the intended film.

The backend story is that I was offered to create a visual/image based event for the Temp’d Images festival of garajistanbul, and I had proposed “Swap Text for Image” project. In order to present this project to the public, garajistanbul helped me to find writer Murat Uyurkulak to develop a 27 sentence long, short story. Everyday one single sentence of the story was announced to the public sequentially, and the registered users were asked to upload visuals related with that sentence.

After we have received images online, some were selected to be included in the film, and we have worked with sequencing all these images together to create the fim structure. Then for the festival, writer Murat Uyurkulak has read the text aloud in front of the public, as a performance act inline with the multimedia projection of the film. There are several edited versions of the film, here below you can access some.

Click here to see the film

Some photos from the garajistanbul screening;

Here is the promo text for the activity.

We want to make a film, and we want for everyone who wants to act in this film to do so. This artistic production of ours should have not one owner, but a large number of shareholders, with each scene belonging to someone else. Like Martin Heidegger states in his essay, “The Origin of the Work of Art,” a work of art produced today cannot be considered the product solely of the artist who has produced it. Artistic production should not be perceived of as an interpretation or reflection of reality, but as reflections of a community’s shared understanding. In this respect, this film is therefore our film—the film of a series of individual, disjointed thoughts. A film that comprises a whole, made up of a sequence, containing meaning. A common ground where your understanding and my understanding meet.

We’re going to give you a script—but you only get to see one sentence a day. We want you to imagine, stage, and photograph whatever that sentence means to you on that particular day and send it to us. Later, we will put the scenes together in a sequence and make a film out of them. Disjointed, it will lack any formal connecting thread as a visual narrative language, but who knows, maybe we’ll come up with a work of textual integrity, a series of instances bound by the ties of coincidence. And then we’ll sit and watch our film all together. But that’s not all: next, it’s up to us whether we just look at what has been done or see into it, probe its depths. So now let’s play a little swapping game. It goes like this: I give you a text, you give me an image.

Muhabir: Memet Ali Alabora

Dramaturji: Lex Bohlmeijer

Ses & Video Tasarımı: Selçuk Artut

Işık Tasarımı: Yüksel Aymaz

Proje Asistanı: Roza Erdem

Prodüksiyon Asistanı: Eren Arıkan

Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı’nın Maddi Katkılarıyla

Ortak yapımcılar: Rotterdamse Schouwburg, TEMPS D’IMAGES 2009 / garajistanbul, Kosmopolis Rotterdam

Prömiyer: 3 Şubat 2009, Rotterdam, Hollanda

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Sao Paulo, Brazil

Presented at Social and Organizational Informatics and Cybernetics : SOIC2009 Orlando, Florida, USA (13 July 2009)

Presented at Digital Encounters,Sabanci University, Istanbul (07 January 2009)

NewspaperBox presents a possible visual model for representing the collective use of a website in its form. Internet and cyberspace has been mainly defined through its utopian futures, and revolutionary anticipations. Under these views lies, our misconception of technological tools and deference to already dominant structures. States, mass media and corporations have come to define how we experience and use Internet in the control societies we live in. Databases and codes regulate user relations with and among this space and define the internal limitations of Internet as a recording medium. Through articulating a space-time for computer mediated communication to occur, this platform proposes an experience of cyberspace as a reconstructive process among users.

In NewspaperBox users’ subjective interaction of reading a text is transformed into a visual challenge in order to collect more sufficient data regarding the reading activity. Once the user enters the site he/she is confronted with the whole set of information available for his/her choosing. In order to start reading an article, a user has to go through simple sets of interactive activities such as stretching and dragging box content, which enables us to collect data on how much of the content was so presumably read by the user. Then the amount of reading and time spent within the activity is supplied back to the existing database as add-on information.

Click here to access the project

Click here to download the paper