Istanbul’u Terketin!

İSTANBUL’U TERKEDİN!
Ahmet Atif Akin, Gokce Taskan, Ali M. Demirel

Yama ekranı için geliştirilen proje, Anadoludaki deprem sensörlerinden gelen verileri gerçek zamanlı bir biçimde grafiklerle şehire sunuyor ve sismik aktivitenin olduu anda, şimdi, izlenmesine imkan veriyor.
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Turk Devleti Sansuru

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News: xurban_collective Main site is Updated

Xurban is a transparent non-organization, therefore, without any worries, we are disclosing the fact that we received zillions of euro ‘federal funding’ to update our main website. Yeap we did it, we got the money and drank the beer! But, believe me it was not easy~ After years of dedicated work, countless of man/woman/gay/lesbian/transexual/transdressed/shemale/hefemale/hemale/shefemale hours, hiring many consultants across the continents, traveling around the world with the balloon, kissing so many cute asses if you will, we finalized the design. Yes it is minimal, no it does not consume much of network traffic, yes it requires javascript, no it is not php-mysql, yes it is simple html, yes we like it; www.xurban.net

ECOTOPIA CALL-OUT!

//ENG:We are friends with Ecotopia. In fact Albay@xurban worked at Eyfa office helping to organize many Ecotopia events. Shaman and I participated some of their gatherings. This is a great opportunity for Anatolian eco-activists, it is pure fun and a great participatory learning experience. Don’t be shy, participate, pass it along!

//TR:Ecotopia bu sene Turkiye’de duzenleniyor, bilhassa ana kuzusu turk genclerine katilmalarini salik veririm, tabii mumkunse bisikletle gidilsin. Cekinmeyin, katilin, uretin, paylasin;

ECOTOPIA CALL-OUT!

Come to the 20th annual Ecotopia gathering!

This year, Ecotopia will take place between 9-23 August 2008 in Turkey,
close to a city Sinop at the Black Sea. You are invited to take part, and
discuss energy and other issues, support local activists and meet with
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Art Work

A small temporary public art work placed in Berlin Biennial sculpture garden. The space is defined by an other art work made out of same type of material.

IKEA and Berlin Biennial Sculpture Garden

Don’t ask me what the relationship between these two sites is. There were many inspiring elements in both of them

I had to spend some time in IKEA to get some furniture for Ali, who recently moved to Berlin after a long immigration battle with the Germany’s backward immigration offices.

Next day we visited Berlin Biennial Sculpture Garden. It follows the new trend in the art world; keen appreciation of art made out of junk materials… When you place them in a junky yard, however, they blend into the scene, the distinction between art and ‘nature’ gets blurry, you lose your orientation, no signage, no directions, no curatorial text that can interrupt your experience (hehe). In that sense the sculpture garden was a successful curatorial attempt, however artists could be a bit more surprising

Boar Hunt in Berlin

Last sunday we went to an abandoned American radar base in Berlin. On the way back, we spotted some wild boars in the dark. Looking deep into this darkness was a hair-raising experience. Boars in Berlin are protected by laws and their population grew tremendously over the last couple of decade to ~8000.

Berlin Der Grossstadt - I

I have been in Berlin for the last 10 days. I am currently conducting a research for our upcoming project which will be realized as part of the InTransit08 festival, HKW.  I have been visiting many sites, including archaeology museums and some immigrant houses. I am going to write about my observations soon… For now, here are some images from Turkish market in Kreuzeberg.