Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum
İstanbul Çağdaş Sanat Müzesi, iS.CaM | |
 Istanbul Museum | |
  Location of İstanbul Museum | |
| Established | 1997 |
|---|---|
| Location | Galata, Istanbul, Turkey |
| Type | Contemporary art museum |
| Collection size | Mehmet Sinan Collection |
| President | Genco Gulan |
| Curator | Dr. Marcus Graf |
| Public transit access | Subway available at Sishane. |
| Nearest car park | Available at Sishane. |
| Website | www |
Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum aka iS.CaM is an independent, artist run museum established in Istanbul in 1997. It is the oldest contemporary art museum in Istanbul. iS.CaM an alternative art organisation that develops, evolves and collaborates with other institutions and networks. One of its tenets is that art and education should go together hand in hand. In terms of the Internet it is pioneering, including the establishment of the Web Biennial,[1] a Biennial entirely on the Internet. The founder is conceptual artist Genco Gulan and the chief curator is Dr. Marcus Graf. We collaborate with Galata Perform in many projects.
Genco Gulan established “Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum”[2] as an art project[3] in 1997. The project has evolved for many years. Recently he manifested in Berlin that he is the “Erste Lebende Kunst Museum” (the first living art museum) after Tim Ulrich.[4]
This year the theme of the Web Biennial 2012 is "Occupy Content" and WB12 is accepting applications. WB12 team is Dimitris Fotiou, Daphne Dragona, Matthias Fritsch. Currently iS.CaM is making a large scale interview project with University students. Students from Bogazici University, Mimar Sinan Academy and Yeditepe University are making interviews with Turkish and International artist:
Ahmet Atif Akin, Ali Miharbi, Andy Deck, Tamara Lai, Antonio Cosentino, Arzu Basaran, Ashkan Sahihi, Roy Ascott, Asli Cavusoglu, Aydin Teker, Magda Bielesz, Ayse Orhon, Aysen Urfalioglu, David Rokeby, Max Dean, Burak Arikan, Burak Delier, Karl Heinz Jeron, Johan Tahon, Cigdem Kaya, Cevdet Erek, Kathleen Ruiz, Didem Dayi Tirek, Elif Celebi, Leonel Moura, Avi Rosen, Erdem Helvacioglu, Ergin İnan, Marta De Menezes, Tomislav Brajnovic, Esra Ersen, Extramücadele, Phillip Warnell, Genco Gulan, Gul İlgaz, Eugene Perera, Stelarc, Gunes Savas, Gunseli Kato, Andreas Maria Jacobs, Philip Ross, Handan Borutcene, Erdem Dilbaz, Maria Korporal, Teoman Madra, Kadri Ozayten, Mehmet Sinan, Martin John Callanan, Emel Vardar, Erdag Aksel, Sarawut Chutiwongpeti, Melinda Rackham, Kerem Kurdoglu, Kerem Ozan Bayraktar, TFAP, Karl Sims, Leyla Gediz, Melis Agazat, Andrej Tisma, Caterina Davinio, Nadi Guler, Robert Wilson, Murat Germen, Nasan Tur, Anny Ozturk, Selcuk Artut, Nazif Topcuoglu, Tahit Un, Ayse Erkmen, Tomur Atagok, Canan, Yasemin Nur Toksoy, Melih Apa, Volkan Aslan, Selim Birsel, Suzan Batu, Su Yucel, Tunc Ali Cam, Tunc Topcuoglu, Zekine Kundukan, Sitki Kosemen, Candas Sisman, Yigit Yazici, Seza Peker, Taner Ceylan, Baris Saribas, Hale Tenger, Can Maden, İsmet Dogan, Erkan Ozgen, Kemal Tufan, Ferhat Ozgur, Komet, Gulcin Aksoy, Mentalklinik, Hakan Onur, İlker Yardimci, Ozgul Arslan, Esat Cavit Basak, Filiz Sizanli, Mustafa Kaplan, Gulsun Karamustafa, Vahit Tuna, Ozlem Gunyol, Vahap Avsar, Sarkis Zabunyan, Gulsun Orhon, Sukran Moral, Mustafa Pancar, Serhat Kiraz and many more...
Web Biennial
The Web Biennial, abbreviated as "WB", is an online Art exhibition of[5] of net-art and web-art. It is organised by Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, iS.CaM, and founded by Genco Gulan right at the turn of the century. As a web Formation Web Biennial is as old as Wikipedia. Every two years WB takes the form of virtual 'pavilions', presenting a large amount of contemporary Internet art, linking them in one way or another. Each participating website or project is represented by special tag in the title tag and or a link on the Web Biennial website. Though an online project, Web Biennial is always compared to other Biennials. See:
“In every area of life, a new generation of young Turks is reaching outward. This year's Art Biennale will draw artists from Bosnia, Iran, Egypt, Greece and Lebanon—a most uncommon mix—while the Web Biennale will feature work by Armenians, Ukrainians, Serbs, Macedonians and Romanians. "Istanbul these days has as much dynamism as New York," says Genco Gulan, director of the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum. If anything, he enthuses, "Istanbul is more alive.
There's more interest here in doing something new."[6]
As for June 2012 Web Biennial 12 is currently accepting applications. WB12 team is composed of Dimitris Fotiou, Daphne Dragona, Matthias Fritsch. The project this year will be the collaboration of the teams from Istanbul, Berlin and Athens. The concept is: "Occupy Content".
OCCUPY CONTENT: Have we reached the end of the Internet as we knew it? The last few years threats over the openness and the democracy of the medium have significantly augmented. With the introduction of the new Internet censorship laws on the name of intellectual property, increasing government surveillance and control under the pretense of security and continuously evolving systems of data aggregation applied by companies, the Internet territory seems to be doomed to a fatal change. No matter to which extent the new agreements will pass, how different governments and countries might react, and how companies might cooperate according to their own interests, insecurity and fear cast their shade over the Internet's freedom.
Can networks survive with the restrictions and inhibitions being imposed to them? Can they withstand data disclosure and control? While these questions remain open, the voices rising up multiply, arguing that the internet ultimately can not be regulated and controlled. As every power feeds its counterpower and every mechanism of control, its anti-mechanism, structures can be opposed and transformed by the potentiality of resistance by millions of users around the world.
Believing that collaborative creative processes can formulate new common grounds of participation, Web Biennial 12 wishes to address a call to all creative netizens, seeking for different alternatives that can be offered. Not only web based and net based projects but ideas, statements, platforms and tools are also welcome; as well as anything that could contribute to an open platform which aims to assist in building a free network of networks beyond control.[7]
References
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- ^ Lubelski, Abraham. (December 22, 2006) Contemporary Istanbul Art Fairs International. Retrieved 2012-06-01.
- ^ Arikonmaz, Piril Gulesci (2012-02-02)'Ben bir müzeyim’ Haberturk. Retrieved 2012-06-01
- ^ "Web biennial". www.intute.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 June 2012.
- ^ Foorhar, Rana and Mathews, Owen. (2005-08-28) Turkish Delight . Newsweek. Retrieved 2012-06-01.
- ^ Green, Jo-Anne. (2011/01/17) Regeneration.011 - A Selection of The Web Biennial. Turbulance.org. Retrieved 2012-06-13.