June 23rd, 2009

Saison Video July09 program, Iklimler is now online. (Click on watch videos)
An online programme of turkish artists giving out visual and aural pulsations: tactile impressions, vacuity, rites, digressions…

Toys That Encourage Thinking III

June 15th, 2009

Squatted doll house (in progress)
I found this doll house on the street a few years ago, since then I’ve been thinking what to do with it. And here is what I have so far. No purchase was made during this project - it’s all found material.

Summer so far

June 8th, 2009

Price per breath phase I: booth is designed and constructed by Felix Maus a master carpenter from Germany. We picked it up from Buffalo, NY. Felix was a visiting artist at UB. At the moment it’s in my studio for its color change and all the techno add-ons.

Road trip to south-west completed

May 29th, 2009

Cities visited in two weeks: Clarksville, Nashville, Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston, Austin, Dallas, Little Rock, Memphis and Indianapolis.

Pecha Kucha Night @ MOCA Cleveland

April 28th, 2009

I’ll be participating at  Pecha Kucha Night: Cleveland Volume 3 on May 8th at MOCA Cleveland. Doors open at 7:00pm 8501 Carnegie Avenue.

Istanbul: crossing the Bhosphorus.

April 7th, 2009

I did some spring cleaning and found these miniDVs from my travel to Turkey in 2008.

FLEFF Labs : Syncopation

March 24th, 2009

Nick Knouf, Claudia Pederson, Arzu Ozkal
Sound, silence, noise, circuit bending and toy hacking, etc…
http://zeitkunst.org/flefflabs

Fleff Labs - Syncopation

The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF)

March 14th, 2009

March 30-April 5, 2009
Next week Claudia Pederson, Nick Knouf and I are giving a workshop at the The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF). This year’s festival will focus on: Spice, Syncopation, Toxins, and Trade. We chose syncopation.

Check out the festival films here: http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff/films/

I flew over my hometown last night

February 22nd, 2009

Ankara/Turkey - google earth.

esc: Julie Perini

February 2nd, 2009

Perini will be in Oberlin on Feb 17 to talk about her work.

esc: julie perini

Julie Perini is an artist working in time-based media including video, performance, film, mail, and installation. Her work has exhibited widely in the US and abroad. She is a recipient of the 2007 New York Foundation for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship in Cross-Disciplinary/Performative work. Julie holds an MFA from the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study and a BS in Communication from Cornell University. Julie has taught college courses, community workshops, and high school programs on video and digital media production, film history, and performance art. Currently, she lives in Portland, OR and teaches in the Intermedia Department at the Pacific Northwest College of Art.