Net Art in Ancient Myndos

Net- Art: 8 days / 16 hours. 11– 18 August 2002. Tina La Porta, MFA. Genco Gülan, MA.

The Net-art Workshop aims to make an introduction to net-art in the context of “contemporary art” and “new communication technologies”. Participants will take reference from international examples on the Internet to examine Net-art from a different perspective and thus make their own practices more productive.

The workshop will be on both theoretical and practical levels. Participants will be introduced to programs such as Notepad, Netscape Communicator, Macromedia Dreamweaver and Flash, FTP. In the end a website will be created where all works will be displayed. Participants will also be guided to get in touch with International Net-Art Communities

Program:

Internet as Hardware and Software

Net-art Examples

Browsers, HTML, Javascript

Macromedia Dreamweaver

Introduction to Macromedia Flash animation

FTP and online publishing

Search Engines

Multimedia for WWW

Tina La Porta is one of the first artists to be accepted into the Whitney Museum of American Art collection, NY as a Net-artist.
She is an instructor at the NY Institute of Technology and School of Visual Arts.

Genco Gulan has participated in Net-art project Chaos in Action that was exhibited in ‘Centre Pompidou et du Musée National d'Art Moderne’, Paris. Gülan has given seminars on Internet and New Technology at the New York Institute of Technology and New School University. He is a co-curator at the Alternative Museum, NY.

Contact: Nadi Guler, Gumusluk Academy. (252) 394 4301 info@gumuslukakademisi.org/ www.gumuslukakademisi.org

The workshops will be held in English and Turkish on PC and Mac computers. Participation is limited to 12 persons.There will also be a scholarship given to one of the participants. The skin diving sessions are free for the participants of the digital workshops. Those participating in all of the A or B series will receive a 30% discount for the workshops.

Gumusluk Academy also has housing facilities for 17.50 US$– full pension, including breakfast and lunch.

All participants will receive a certificate at the end of the workshop. This program is created in collaboration with Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, ISCAM.