May 2009
This exhibition does not describe Istanbul. Neither does it depict its history, its contemporary architectural environment which is gradually becoming more animated and productive, its complex social and economic structure or its becoming the focus of a popular culture of almost unparalleled richness.
The exhibition is prepared with the purpose of visualizing Istanbul’s present state.
It consists of an interactive audiovisual database on contemporary Istanbul and a 16-minute complementary film titled ‘Mapping Istanbul’.
Both attempts to look at Istanbul from multiple perspectives and free of all the familiar clichés. In doing this, the database, instead of producing and placing new stereotypes opposite those clichés, forms its own structure by instrumentalizing the clichés themselves.
Media accessed through includes works by artists, architectural projects, videos, photographs, cartoons and essays.
Users accessing these works produced in the last 10 years will have the chance to perceive the conditions and actors forming the present day’s Istanbul.
There are 408 visual groups under the 80 sub-headings featured on the database. More than 7000 visuals were accumulated for the project.
Mapping Istanbul constitutes an important source supporting the understanding of the city and the contemporary view the exhibition presented, at times completely overturning cliché judgments.
A group of these maps features statistical information and the information is presented in comparative charts. Some other maps present relational cartographies.
This exhibition does not describe Istanbul. Neither does it depict its history, its contemporary architectural environment which is gradually becoming more animated and productive, its complex social and economic structure or its becoming the focus of a popular culture of almost unparalleled richness.
The exhibition is prepared with the purpose of visualizing Istanbul’s present state.
It consists of an interactive audiovisual database on contemporary Istanbul and a 16-minute complementary film titled ‘Mapping Istanbul’.
Both attempts to look at Istanbul from multiple perspectives and free of all the familiar clichés.
In doing this, the database, instead of producing and placing new stereotypes opposite those clichés, forms its own structure by instrumentalizing the clichés themselves.
Media accessed through includes works by artists, architectural projects, videos, photographs, cartoons and essays.
Users accessing these works produced in the last 10 years will have the chance to perceive the conditions and actors forming today’s Istanbul. There are 408 visual groups under the 80 sub-headings featured on the database.
More than 7000 visuals were accumulated for the project. Mapping Istanbul constitutes an important source supporting the understanding of the city and the contemporary view the exhibition presented, at times completely overturning cliché judgments.
A group of these maps features statistical information and the information is presented in comparative charts. Some other maps present relational cartographies.
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