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.

9/20/2011

Embark to Pera pARkours - Tour/Intervention

Pera pARkours is a work-in-progress that uses Augmented Reality (Layar) to re/dis/locate fragments from the archive of our interactive cross-media project Coffee Deposits::: Topologies of Chance into public space. These locative "post-scripts" explore a small radius in the Pera/Galata vicinity to uncover disparate narratives weaving both fictive and documentary elements that include past Armenian presences, the détournement of cup reading to neo/geo-caching for prophetic visions.

Extension of Pera pARkours ...
NOW OFFLINE on LAYAR
~~Phantom/Hayalet Cup Détournement is STILL accessible on Layar in Istanbul and beyond.~~

~~For viewing: Download the LAYAR brower~~
~~on your smart phone http://www.layar.com/~~

~~Search for tour: Pera pARkours and launch project.~~

~~TOUR~~ ::: Pera pARkours full tour off-line
~~Ubiquitous intervention still accessible on LAYAR~~
~~Start at the bottom of the Camondo stairs in Galata/Pera just off of Banklar Cadessi and mapped to coordinates: http://tinyurl.com/6l4329e~~ Enable in LAYAR settings to the smallest radius (100 meters) for viewing tour. ~~-BRING HEADPHONES FOR AUDIO/VIDEO~~ See post on ARtour workshop:
http://coffee-deposits.blogspot.com/2011/09/pera-parkours-at-isea-workshop.html

*Pera (also known as Galata) was a district in Constantinople

(established circa 13th century as a Genoese trading colony) north of
the Golden Horn, which now encompasses parts of Beyoğlu, Karaköy,
Tophane, Tarlabaşı, Cihangir etc. Pera originates from Greek, meaning
"beyond or across" and the district was particularly known for its
presence of Greek, Armenian, Italian, and Jewish residents and
businesses. See more documentation:

Pera pARkours at ISEA Workshop (Sabancı University)

Workshop was really inspiring-
see Margriet Schavemaker's tweets on
Augmented RealityWorkshop/ISEA
http://twitter.com/#!/Marschave
::::::::more screen grabs and results to follow::::::

Augmented Reality tour [BETA] coming soon to Istanbul

 
We are taking part in the ISEA workshop, Augmented Istanbul given by the ARtours team (Margriet Schavemaker and Hein Wils) from the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. We will introduce a sample work-in-progress section "Pera PARkours" made in LAYAR using the content management system VISAR and is an augemented extension of Topologies of Chance--

Workshop begins at 9am on Thursday Sept. 15th at Sabanci University at the
KARAKOY LOCATION.

:::stay tuned:::

http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/workshop/augmented-istanbul-create-bosphorus-ar-tour
  

TOPOLOGIES OF CHANCE - Extended Project Description

Coffee Deposits:::Topologies of Chance is contoured into an interactive Flash environment, a hybrid between documentary forms and the ludic. The work 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. The artists attempted in parallel to augment these encounters with geo-located traces. Subsequently, after navigating ambiguous coffee codes, divination, coffee sediments, and GPS strategies became ambient mediums or phantom guides. Topologies of Chance unfolds a series of counter-cartographies and articulates and speculates multiple viewpoints and disorientations, sometimes ironically via diverging and non-linear traversals within screen and street interfaces. A sampling of traversals include: contours of transgender im/mobilities; past Armenian presences; the encroaching obsolescence of the junk recyclers trade, to the tracing of so-called 'urban renewal' projects.
Sections: Pattern Recognition; Belly of Istanbul; Mediums; Palimpsest; Mobile Networks; Contours; Tracause- For online previews: www.coffeedeposits.nl

6/24/2011

PROTEST/ ARTS BUDGET CUTS >ROTTERDAM>DEN HAAG>

Straks niet meer...

online petition:

Bezuinigen op cultuur zonder alle feiten? Nooit! 

5/21/2011

TOPOLOGIES of CHANCE at Het GLAZEN HUIS- JUNE 5th

Group exhibition:

-RECOLLECTED- opening on June 5th at het GLAZEN HUIS -Amsterdam

Press release

ZET Foundation organizes the exhibition Recollected at het Glazen Huis in Amstelpark, June 5th to June 26th. At 15:00 Marens Engelhard, director of the (Amsterdam) Municipal Archive, will open the Recollected exhibition at het Glazen Huis, located in Amstelpark.

For this exhibition the ZET Foundation invited eight artists to create and show a work inspired by the act of collecting, exploring the diverse uses of this term. In their works, the artists make use of archive materials, impressions, stories, and pre-existing objects. Collecting is understood as a verb that refers to a subjective action in which personal contexts, interests, and encounters are part of the process. Artists' interpretations and interventions become the basis of new images/works. The collective presentation, in turn, may become the source of new experiences and memories.

Participating artists

Jabu Arnell

Tina Bastajian/Seda Manavoglu

Ruta Butkute

Kristiina Koskentola

Doina Kraal

Emilio Novani

Apostolos Ntelakos

5 juni t/m 26 juni Glazenhuis- Amstelpark.
open thursdays to sundays, 12-5, and by appointment

www.zetfoundation.nl

-Topologies ... was supported by the www.eurocult.org

3/01/2011

i-Docs (symposium at Watershed Media Centre, Bristol)

"Traversing Topologies of Chance" project presentation is scheduled for the upcoming i-Docs symposium--March 25, 2011.
[A lab/symposium dedicated to the rapidly evolving field of interactive documentary]. Final programme now online- http://i-docs.org

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