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Contemporary Artists from New York
and Istanbul will be gathering in the ancient city of Myndos for a series
of
Digital art workshops between the 11th and 18th of August. Myndos, located
near Bodrum in the southwest region
of Turkey, is a unique ancient city as parts of the city including its port
have sunk just below the sea level. The
imagery of a sunken ancient city conbined with the artworks, performers and
the equipment,
constitutes the perfect surreal scene for the artists.
Gumusluk Academy, an independent
arts foundation, located near the ruins of ancient Myndos, is organizing this
series of Digital Art workshops in collaboration with istanbulmuseum.org/.
The aim of the workshops is to combine
new technology with ancient cultures in order to reach to a new conceptual
level. The categories in this workshop are
Digital Design, Net Art, Video Art, Interactive Art and Electronic Music.
The instructers are Tina La Porta, Genco
Gülan, John Plenge, Tim Hailey and Murat Egi.
The instructers taking part in this workshop are also praticing artists. Tina
La Porta, one of the first artists to be
accepted into the Whitney Museum of American Art collection as a net-artist,
is a faculty at the NY Institute of
Technology and School of Visual Arts. She recently opened a solo exhibition
"voyeur_web " at Universal Concepts
Unlimited in NY.
Genco Gulan has participated in
the Net-art project, Chaos in Action, exhibited in 'Centre Pompidou et du
Musée
National d'Art Moderne', Paris. Gulan has given seminars on the subjects of
Internet and New Technology, at the
New York Institute of Technology and New School University. He recently participated
to Kanonmedia's "New
Media Line" net art exhibition on the web and the IV.th Digital Salon
Exhibition at Habana, Cuba.
Interactive works of Tim Hailey,
have been exhibited in major museums including the New Orleans Museum of
Contemporary Art. He recentyly curated "Ironclads" an interactive
performance at Here Art NYC.
John Plenge is an ASCAP, NYSCA and OBIE award winning songwriter, composer
and sound designer. Past
highlights include performances at The Kitchen Theater, NYC, 450 Broadway
Gallery , NYC, Wonton Destruction,
3 Legged Dog/ Wooster Group, NYC, (2002) HERE Center for the
Arts NYC, Teatro Carignano, Torrino, Italy (Obie Award for Best Production
2000) New School University,
NYC, Music Composition Award "Symphony East-West" (1999) ASCAP SongWriting
Award Recipient (1995).
Dr. Murat Egi is the head of the İstanbul University Underwater Technologies
Program. His underwater studies
have been published in National Geographic and international Medical and Biomedical
magazines. He recently made
an underwater survey of the Van Lake and produced a documentary film based
on his survey.
In history, Myndos, or as it is
called today Gümüşlük, was an important port of the ancient Carian Kingdom
which
dates back to the 5th century B.C. and even to prehistory. Caria, along with
Ionia to its north was a cradle of
culture, home to noted philosophers, historians, architects, and physicians
of antiquity-including Herodotus of
Bodrum/ Halikarnassos, Hippocrates of İstankoy, Herakleitos of Ephesus, Thales
and Anaximenes of Miletus, and
Eudoxos of Knidos.
Moreover Halikarnassos is the original
site of the Mousoleion, the tomb of Carian King Mousolus, one of the seven
wonders of the world. It is currently on display at the British Museum. The
spectacular Bodrum Castle, built by the
Knights of St. John, currently houses the internationally known Museum of
Underwater Archeology. It is in this
museum where the participants will gain the archeological references of the
remains.
The digital workshops at Gümüşlük
Academy aim to bring a new approach to digital arts in the context of process
art and site specific workshop. The workshop will include theoretical and
practical levels while diffusing the
difference between the observer and the producer. During the workshop period,
participants will develop projects
together, working with each other, switching between different roles and positions.
Works will be exhibited in
Bodrum, İstanbul, New York and on the Internet. We believe that a carefull
but a spontaneous meeting of the
ancient and the new technology might carry us to a new conceptual level.
For more information: www.gumuslukakademisi.org / www.istanbulmuseum.org