Coffee Deposits:::Topologies of Chance a project by Tina Bastajian and Seda Manavoglu

The first iteration of the work is contoured into an interactive Flash environment, a hybrid between documentary forms and the ludic. Topologies traces a multiplicity of layers and movements in Istanbul via mobile and ad-hoc Turkish coffee encounters: a slow mapping of unpredictable and rapidly shifting urban patterns and diverse stories and accounts by those who inhabit, walk, dwell, witness, work and protest in the city.

10/13/2009

to consider locative media & polyphonic orientation ...

9/29/2009

city edges by ambulation & kahve detour #3

[umit stops to reload his mobile phone, seda decides to turn off the

gps logger as she ...]

9/19/2009

web browing in Turkey-- proxies, protocols, file not found ...

QR Code Sticker /Blog

9/17/2009

Tahtakale district and Tahmis Sokak

Residue from the 16th century coffeehouse district and the coffee roasting street is still present albeit under the auspices of coffee mogel "Kurukahveci Mehmet Effendi." Young men perform the thorny journey of coffee in micro--which let us not forget, is the 2nd biggest export after oil. Passing from hand to hand, ... a human conveyor belt of coffee roasters, packers, packet folders, sellers, etc.-

-We ask them "where are your beans from?"

In unison they answer:

-Brazil-

The enlarged journey [Brazil, Columbia, San Salvador] is erased with "Mehmet Effendi's" demonstrations...

:::to be continued:::

9/10/2009

Coffee Deposits (aka) ∴ Fincan İçinde Kartografi ∴

⇔09.09.09 ⇔ First stop Kadikoy, Istanbul

⇔09.10.09 ⇔ Pick-up coffee beans from courier at Haymatlos Bar, Istiklal Caddesi, Istanbul @~ECLECTIC TECH CARNIVAL~Shipment to Istanbul via Feral Trade Project by artist Kate Rich. http://www.feraltrade.org/

images courtesy: www.feraltrade.org/

-Waybill details ⇔San Salvador⇔ Istanbul

http://www.feraltrade.org/cgi-bin/package/2package.pl?action=format_waybill&edit_id=1507

... this vendor prefers his beans the feral way!

8/06/2009

a second-hand approach to GPS / Istanbul

Looking for the right GPS device to use in Istanbul? Mapping forum answers all...

screen grab

url: http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hubb/navigation-maps-compass-gps/turkey-istanbul-gps-34961

>>GPS >> the analogue version ...

7/18/2009

coffee deposits siting maps in cups [istanbul~amsterdam]

a hybrid-locative media project - 1st phase

Coffee Deposits: Siting Maps in Cups is a multi-sensory mobile locative media project (Istanbul>Amsterdam) engaging the visual, gustatory, auditory and the olfactory senses for visionary exchange. Weaving a combination of GPS, Geo-Caching, and blue-tooth technologies, together with one-on-one encounters on sidewalks, balconies and city streets-- artists and passersby will construct a collaborative urban map using Turkish/Armenian coffee (et al) as its main/false protagonist. [artists: tina bastajian/seda manavoglu]

project funded by:

7/17/2009

Meredith Monk muses on the residue /Smithson - sedimentation...

(meredith monk - process notes on the portable, may 10, 1966)

deborah jowitt

(robert smithson-
A sedimentation of the mind: Earth Works, sept 1968)

Coffee [isms]

I'm feeling mighty lonesome - haven't slept a wink I walk the floor and watch the door - and in between I drink Black coffee- love's a hand me down brew ...ELLA FITZGERALD
The names of brown dyes are sweet and edible. You can buy a coat in caramel, toffee, almond, coffee, chocolate or curry. Brown is sweetness and nourishment. There was once a colour called toast. "Chroma" Derek Jarman
Is mining “manufacturing”? Is a coffee can made with tin “necessary to the functionality” of the coffee being sold? (Behind the Blood Money - NYTimes)
-Come have a cup of coffee with us and stimulate your economic power as an artist and/or cultural worker. Klatch will conclude with a W.A.G.E. t-shirt spray paint stencil session. Free CofFEEFree [http://www.wageforwork.com/events.html].
-Coffeeville is located at 31°45'40.543" North, 88°5'20.940" West
Wenn man ein iPhone an eine Kaffeemaschine klebt bzw. umgekehrt, liefert dieses Wundergerät auch Kaffee
-The word "coffee" entered English in 1598 via Dutch koffie. This word was created via Turkish kahve, the Turkish pronunciation Arabic qahwa, a truncation of qahhwat al-bun or wine of the bean. One possible origin of the name is the Kingdom of Kaffa in Ethiopia, where the coffee plant originated; its name there is bunn or bunna.
-The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP!) was an internationally recognised protocol introduced in 1998 that monitors the manufacturing, distribution, and pricing of coffee pots. Source:http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com
-The disposable coffee cup lid falls squarely in the category of random, everyday objects that you might assume are overlooked, but ... www.ediblegeography.com/the-evolution-of-lids/
".. once you scan a QR code and learn the story of the (coffee) bean you become emotionally connected, ..." http://untether.tv/ellb/blog/the-tale-of-qr-codes-and-the-fair-trade-coffee-roaster/
-Impossible objects: AKA Coffeepot for Masochists- by designer Jacques Carelman
- " ... a topologist can't distinguish a coffee mug from a doughnut, since a sufficiently pliable doughnut could be reshaped to the form of a coffee cup by creating a dimple and progressively enlarging it, while shrinking the hole into a handle."
-“Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It’s a lot more than just a drink; it’s something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup.” Gertrude Stein
-The Trojan Room coffee pot was the inspiration for the world's first webcam. The coffee pot was located in the so-called Trojan Room within the old Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The webcam was created to help people working in other parts of the building avoid pointless trips to the coffee room by providing, on the user's desktop computer, a live 128×128 grayscale picture of the state of the coffee pot - (source Wikipedia)
-"Fill an old pair of pantyhose with dry used coffee grounds and hang in closets or the refrigerator to absorb odors."
-coffee coffee (New York: 0 to 9, 1967) Aram Saroyan. -One of the books published under the imprint of Vito Acconci and Bernadette Mayer's 0 - 9 Books (New York), 11 x 8.5 inches. Side stapled. White cardboard covers. Mimeographed.
- " ...go to the towers, go to the cafe, wait a couple of days and watch for the violin." Dialogue from 'Limits of Control' (Jim Jarmusch).
-"A mathmetician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems...." --Paul Erdös, as quoted in The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
-"kahve hack'ini buldu ..." anonymous
- ...Tradition has it that Foucault's favorite cafe while in Berkeley was the Espresso Experience (2440 Bancroft) and the coffee house is now sometimes referred to as "Cafe Foucault." http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/gaybears/foucault/
-October 1st is the official Coffee Day in Japan
-Strong black Coffea Cruda, drunk as hot as possible, is indispensable as an antidote in a large number of poisons, especially narcotics. Hot coffee by rectum in cases of extreme collapse. [Homeopathic remedy/http://abchomeopathy.com/r.php/Coff]
-“First come to your senses then to the tavern.” Omar Khayyam
-"We found that for drinking one standard cup of coffee in the Netherlands we need about 140 litres of water, by far the largest part for growing the coffee plant. A standard cup of coffee is 125 ml, which means that we need more than 1100 drops of water for producing one drop of coffee." (A.K. Chapagain & A.Y. Hoekstra- UNESCO REPORT, 2003)
-"Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time" - Ralph Waldo Emerson