INSTALLATION

INSTALLATION
MFA CANDIDATE CATEGORY VENUE MFA CANDIDATE CATEGORY VENUE

Basak Haznedaroglu Installation Gallery Adam Scher Installation Gallery

Symposium Video Symposium
Performance

EXPLORATIONS & METHODOLOGIES IN REMEMBERING THE PAST

URBAN BYTES
Urban space and the flow of activities are mediated by pervasive locative technologies that divorce awareness
from temporal and special location. Wireless technologies are transforming the public space into private
spaces and constraining dialogue with ones in physical proximity. Can these same technologies be re-purposed
to bring users back into the moment rather than distracting them from the here and now?
Urban Bytes is an exploration into new modes of interaction to bring locality and physicality into public
space. It has two parts, a customized software initiating conversations on a website over wifi and a kiosk to
display these conversations. The project hi-jacks wifi spots to enable local conversations with people in physical
proximity. The physical kiosk is an intervention that is triggered by RFID tags uses customized software to
display these dialogue on a kiosk at the hotspot.
Dimensions: 3’ x 3’
TO BE FORGOTTEN
Modern technology has afforded us the capability of saving mass amounts of data, assisting us in the process
of remembering. Currently, these files sit on hard drives or in online galleries by the thousands. As we continue
to acquire digital content, it is important that we reconsider our relationship with this information and begin to
understand what it inherently says about us and the preservation our past.
To Be Forgotten: Explorations and Methodologies in Remembering the Past is a performative installation
that questions what is lost through the digitization process. Using my personal archives of e-memories as
content, both video and printed pieces will be displayed in a “traditional” living room setting, staged with a
television stand, television, couch, rug, and lamp. The time-based pieces will play on a television set, and the
photographs will be on the walls. Over time the elements in the space will distort and fade through constant
processing, so that by the end of the exhibition the pieces will be non-existent. The magnetic strips of the
VHS will have worn away, and the photographs will have faded. The process is irreversible, leaving the work
permanently altered.
Throughout the exhibition, there will be periods of time when I enter the installation and physically re-
create moments from my past. For example, one section will include me performing in sync with video footage
of me dancing as a child.
Dimensions: 17’ x 13’ 5” x 8’

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