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A DAY IN THE LIFE is a
platform for simultaneous global performances and a base for international collaborations.
Urban spaces in Munich, Oklahoma City, Boston and Istanbul
will be connected with each other via a streaming video server for the duration
of the event. At each location, local activity in and around the space will be
formally framed and streamed to all other locations. Thus the audience in each
location sees the activities in four international cities at one time, and the
full performance is only complete when viewing all four locations simultaneously.
The simple act of framing causes the viewer to impart the activities of daily
life with meaning, following Marcel Duchamp’s dictum: "It is the
viewers who make the pictures.” The construction of meaning is however
aided by focusing on specific themes. This is done through targeted media interventions
and activities that take place at all four locations simultaneously, and that
at pre-arranged times react to a common theme. Daily life becomes a performance
of itself. Read more >>
Burak
Arikan will participate in A DAY IN THE LIFE via Art Interactive. A DAY IN THE
LIFE, conceived by Horst Konietzny & Tamiko Thiel of Upgrade! Munich, is part
of the annual Upgrade! International gathering
taking place in Oklahoma City from November 30-December 3.
Arikan's contribution
will be A Stock Market
in Life: Log on and begin trading! This is a stock market that uses the
value generated by the immaterial labor of visitors. Participating Upgrade nodes
become traded companies on the Upgrade Stock Market. Each node gains or loses
fair value depending on the number of people in its local room. Sensors mounted
in the entrance register how many people are in the room at any one time and send
this information to the Stock Market central server. Each Upgrade node has 100
shares. People can buy and sell these shares form a web based interface. Speculation
on the values and the dynamic fair value of the nodes together affect the total
valuation. When the market closes, the money equals to the stock values is distributed
to share holders. Overall market activity is dynamically visualized and projected
in each node location.
Burak Arikan is an artist and designer creating
systems that evolve with the interactions of people and machines. He shows the
instances of these systems through diverse media including prints, animation,
software, electronics, and physical materials. His work has recently been shown
at Ars Electronica, Venice Biennale, and Art Interactive in Cambridge. Arikan
recently completed his master's degree at the MIT Media Laboratory in the Physical
Language Workshop (PLW) led by John Maeda. While at MIT, he pursued research exploring
systems that address the transition from connectivity to collectivity in the context
of creative expression. Sparked form this research, Arikan initiated the Open
I/O platform for artists and designers to collaborate through composing distributed
electronic objects over the Internet. Prior to MIT, he worked as an information
architect and visual designer in the United States and Turkey. He received an
MA degree in Visual Communication Design from Istanbul Bilgi University in 2004,
and a BS degree in Civil Engineering from Yildiz Technical University in 2001.
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