:::contact:::

:::contact:::
info@coffeedeposits.nl
cineglyph@gmail.com
www.coffeedeposits.nl [Flash previews]

this project made possible by
The European Cultural Foundation

www.eurocult.org

9/20/2011

Embark to Pera pARkours - Tour/Intervention

Pera pARkours is a work-in-progress that uses Augmented Reality (Layar) to re/dis/locate fragments from the archive of our interactive cross-media project Coffee Deposits::: Topologies of Chance into public space. These locative "post-scripts" explore a small radius in the Pera/Galata vicinity to uncover disparate narratives weaving both fictive and documentary elements that include past Armenian presences, the détournement of cup reading to neo/geo-caching for prophetic visions.

Extension of Pera pARkours ... 
NOW OFFLINE on LAYAR
Phantom/Hayalet Cup Détournement is STILL accessible on Layar in Istanbul and beyond. 
For viewing: Download the LAYAR brower 
on your smart phone http://www.layar.com/
Search for tour: Pera pARkours and launch project.


TOUR  ::: Pera pARkours full tour off-line  
Ubiquitous intervention still accessible on LAYAR
  Start at the bottom of the Camondo stairs in Galata/Pera just off of Banklar Cadessi and mapped to coordinates:  http://tinyurl.com/6l4329e Enable in LAYAR settings to the smallest radius (100 meters) for viewing tour. -BRING HEADPHONES FOR AUDIO/VIDEO  See post on ARtour workshop:
http://coffee-deposits.blogspot.com/2011/09/pera-parkours-at-isea-workshop.html



*Pera (also known as Galata) was a district in Constantinople
(established circa 13th century as a Genoese trading colony) north of
the Golden Horn, which now encompasses parts of Beyoğlu, Karaköy,
Tophane, Tarlabaşı, Cihangir etc. Pera originates from Greek, meaning
"beyond or across" and the district was particularly known for its
presence of Greek, Armenian, Italian, and Jewish residents and
businesses. See more documentation:

9/16/2011

Pera pARkours at ISEA Workshop (Sabancı University)

Workshop was really inspiring-
see Margriet Schavemaker's tweets on 
Augmented RealityWorkshop/ISEA
http://twitter.com/#!/Marschave
::::::::more screen grabs and results to follow::::::















8/25/2011

Augmented Reality tour [BETA] coming soon to Istanbul

 
We are taking part in the ISEA workshop, Augmented Istanbul given by the ARtours team (Margriet Schavemaker and Hein Wils) from the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. We will introduce a sample work-in-progress section "Pera PARkours" made in LAYAR using the content management system VISAR and is an augemented extension of Topologies of Chance--


Workshop begins at 9am on Thursday Sept. 15th at Sabanci University at the 
KARAKOY LOCATION.
:::stay tuned::: 

8/04/2011

TOPOLOGIES OF CHANCE - Extended Project Description

Coffee Deposits:::Topologies of Chance is contoured into an interactive Flash environment, a hybrid between documentary forms and the ludic. The work traces a  multiplicity of layers and movements in Istanbul via mobile and ad-hoc Turkish coffee encounters: a slow mapping of unpredictable and rapidly shifting urban patterns and diverse stories and accounts by those who inhabit, walk, dwell, witness, work and protest in the city. The artists attempted in parallel to augment these encounters with geo-located traces. Subsequently, after navigating ambiguous coffee codes, divination, coffee sediments, and GPS strategies became ambient mediums or phantom guides. Topologies of Chance unfolds a series of counter-cartographies and articulates and speculates multiple viewpoints and disorientations, sometimes ironically via diverging and non-linear traversals within screen and street interfaces. A sampling of traversals include: contours of transgender im/mobilities; past Armenian presences; the encroaching obsolescence of the junk recyclers trade, to the tracing of so-called 'urban renewal' projects.
Sections: Pattern Recognition; Belly of Istanbul; Mediums; Palimpsest; Mobile Networks; Contours; Tracause- For online previews: www.coffeedeposits.nl

5/21/2011

TOPOLOGIES of CHANCE at Het GLAZEN HUIS- JUNE 5th

Group exhibition:
-RECOLLECTED-  opening on June 5th at het GLAZEN HUIS -Amsterdam

Press release
ZET Foundation organizes the exhibition Recollected at het Glazen Huis in Amstelpark, June 5th to June 26th. At 15:00 Marens Engelhard, director of the (Amsterdam) Municipal Archive, will open the Recollected exhibition at het Glazen Huis, located in Amstelpark.

For this exhibition the ZET Foundation invited eight artists to create and show a work inspired by the act of collecting, exploring the diverse uses of this term. In their works, the artists make use of archive materials, impressions, stories, and pre-existing objects. Collecting is understood as a verb that refers to a subjective action in which personal contexts, interests, and encounters are part of the process. Artists' interpretations and interventions become the basis of new images/works. The collective presentation, in turn, may become the source of new experiences and memories.
 
Participating artists
Jabu Arnell
Tina Bastajian/Seda Manavoglu
Ruta Butkute
Kristiina Koskentola
Doina Kraal
Emilio Novani
Apostolos Ntelakos
5 juni  t/m 26 juni Glazenhuis- Amstelpark.
open thursdays to sundays, 12-5, and by appointment 
www.zetfoundation.nl 
-Topologies ... was supported by the www.eurocult.org

3/01/2011

i-Docs (symposium at Watershed Media Centre, Bristol)

"Traversing Topologies of Chance" project presentation is scheduled for the upcoming i-Docs symposium--March 25, 2011.
[A lab/symposium dedicated to the rapidly evolving field of interactive documentary]. Final programme now online-  http://i-docs.org