<nettime-ann> Burak Arikan's Data Asymmetry exhibition in the Winchester

Dear Nettime,

Burak Arikan's Data Asymmetry exhibition has been opened in the Winchester Gallery (at the Winchester School of Art) and is open until November 24th.

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/amt/news/events/2016/11/burak-arikan-data-asymmetry.page

The exhibition explores relations between data and transactions. The pieces raise questions of the predictability of ordinary human behavior with MyPocket (2008); revealing insights into the infrastructure of megacities like Istanbul as a network of mosques, republican monuments and shopping malls (Islam, Republic, Neoliberalism, 2012) ; remapping and organising recurring patterns in the official tourism commercials of governments with Monovacation (2012); exploring the growth of networks via visual and kinetic abstraction with Tense Series (2007-2012); and showcasing collective production of network maps from the Graph Commons platform. As the works emphasise, the aim of the Graph Commons is to empower people and projects through using network mapping, and collectively experiment with mapping as an ongoing practice.

The solo exhibition is Arikan’s first in the UK; previously he has exhibited at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art New York, Venice Architecture Biennale, São Paulo Biennial, Istanbul Biennial, Berlin Biennial, Ars Electronica and many others.

/Jussi

Dr Jussi Parikka
Professor in Technological Culture & Aesthetics
Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton)
Docent in Digital Culture Theory, University of Turku (Finland)