A collaborative project between Ahmet Atif Akin, Gokce Taskan, Ali M. Demirel for the YAMA screen where data from Anatolian earthquake sensors is graphically presented live to the city, seismic activity in the region can be watched as it occurs, right now.

Istanbul -with a rough estimation and miscalculation- is a city of 12 million. The city is situated near the North Anatolian fault line, which runs from northern Anatolia, along the Black Sea coast to the Sea of Marmara. Two tectonic plates, the African and the Eurasian, push against each other here. This fault line has been responsible for several deadly earthquakes in the region throughout the history. Every year under the sea, the southern mass of the fault pushes up from the Arabian Peninsula, with a very fast rupture rate, shifting the northern plate by 2.5cm (one inch) towards Europe. This dead-locked stalemate inevitably reminds us of the dichotomies experienced by the Turkish Republic throughout her history. This idea is also well supported with the fact that the prospective earthquake is and earthly activity which can be coped with in human terms like all the others, rather than being a natural disaster.

In this context, the earthquake (prospective and happening now) and remote Anatolian locations as real and metaphoric phenomenon constitute the content of this show. Minding the hesitant relationship between the art and real life in urban scale, we built our visual strategy complying with conventional data visualization methods in urban context.

The show is particularly consisted of optimization and visualization of almost real time and updated data parsed from Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute web site, for a low-res display, like 240x180 pixels. It is exciting to know that the project will make a modest contribution to the everlasting bright lights of Beyoglu - formerly known as Pera.

It is possible to see the work from June 26 till July 26 2008 at YAMA screen located at The Marmara Pera Hotel.

ColorTv is my graduation project. It is an attempt of representing data on a tangible surface. Changes that has been made in social networks will be brought to the real space through a dedicated device.

More information is in www.gokcetaskan.com/colortv

More documentation is there.

It is a multi-touch interface project that is designed for the annual student exhibition of Visual Communication Design department of Istanbul Bilgi University. Exhibition's web page could be reached from here. The project is realized with a team of students.
Presented at Dortyuzsaniye #6, February 2008, Istanbul.

_hardware:
4 computers, 4 projectors, 4 cameras , 42 IR led panels, projection surfaces
_software:
Touchlib, Flosc, AS3

Thanks to the people at NUI Group for their tremendous help.

The way we interact with three communication tools that have been around for several decades is immersed in our daily lives in such a degree that we hardly question their interaction methods. Disconnected is a humble mockery of their unquestioned, unbeatable, almost natural interaction with us.
- The phone rings only when user picks up the phone.
- The radio turns the volume up only when user shouts.
- The television displays clearly only when viewer extensively moves around.
I made this project with Alper Ersoy.

_hardware:
2 Arduino boards, High Voltage Ringer Circuit, Microphone Circuit, SPI Digital Potentiometer
_software:
Arduino, PureData, Quartz Composer

It is a project done with a bike, an Ardiuno NG board and PureData. The movie's play speed changes according to the user's pedaling speed.

Emotion catalog is definining relations between emotions in order to classify them.

Graphics generated through scanned barcodes from a barcode scanner. It also works by typing numbers on keyboard and pressing enter.

Creature Mill is a 3D animation project. It describes a factory which collects creatures from the planet. Nobody knows where these creatures came from. They are small and weird looking. Nobody likes their smashing behavior.

A story told by html.
HINT: If you got stuck, click on it and hit ctrl + a.