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THE UPGRADE!ISTANBUL NOMAD 15th of December 2005 17:00- Discussion on ³local and global content with technological infrastructure² with Murat Ertel and Ceren Oykut of Anabala and Cemil Turun of Yogurt Technologies. Ceren Oykut will make a real-time artistic intervention during the talk. Yogurt Technologies Yogurt Technologies was founded by a group of artists and engineers in Istanbul in 1997. Since then, the firm has developed animation, animation tools, software and computer games for a wide variety of clients in Turkey and abroad. Anabala Anabala is a multidisciplinary project concentrating on Istanbul's sounds and cult. The project consists of two artists: Murat Ertel and Ceren Oykut. They create multi-disciplinary pieces by taking the aspects of humour, parody and surprise as the basic elements of their performances. They have contributed to the compilation of ctrl-alt-del 2003. Anabala has performed for the exhibitions and NOMAD programmes in Israel, Serbia and Montenegro, the Netherlands and Turkey. Anabala has also started to collaborate with musicians, sound-artists and visual artists from Cologne, Germany, and has formed another group called K34Cologne-Istanbul Cultural Exchange Project. @ 17:00 santralistanbul Silahtaraga, Halic (there is a shuttle bus from Istanbul Bilgi University, Main Entrance of Dolapdere Campus, at 16:45) ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| The Upgrade! Istanbul is a monthly gathering for new media artists, academicians, practitioners, curators and for all of the other actors of digital culture, organized by NOMAD and hosted by santralistanbul. The Upgrade! is a network of international monthly meetings in the field of art and technology. Founded by media artist Yael Kanarek in 1999, the Upgrade! exists as forums for artists, designers, critics, curators and educators who form the communities in different cities to discuss and share knowledge. Current nodes include Boston, Chicago, Montreal, Munich, NYC, Oklahoma City, Scotland, Seoul, Sofia, Tel-Aviv, Istanbul, Vancouver and Toronto. Host organisations include Eyebeam, Turbulence.org , New Media Scotland, Art Centre Nabi, The Western Front, The Society for Arts and Technology (SAT), InterSpace, I-camp, DCA, CCA, No-Org.net, Art Interactive, santralistanbul, Open-Node.com and TUBE. ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| http://www.nomad-tv.net/upgrade ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre