is a choreographer, dancer and developer of interactive methods of performing with technology. His interest in sensors and electronic devices dates back to the 1970’s when he used body-worn electronic devices attached to the dancer’s body. He is the director of Palindrome, a pioneer in interactive and computer-assisted performance. He holds a BFA in dance
After graduating from METU Dept. of City and Regional Planning, Uysal completed his master studies, throughout which he focused on body-space relationship, in Bilkent University’s Dept. of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design. His doctorate studies in the same department centralized the relationship between architecture and image-production technologies. Besides his academic work, he’s been actively involved
mover, body reader, choreographer, interdisciplinary performance and contemporary dance artist and one of the pioneer academician based in Istanbul. Tuna produces her own work with “RemDans” since 2001. Tuna prefers different representational forms required by the enactment of her projects, such as the outdoor space use, research disciplines, and prefers to stay open to all
studied industrial design at the IED in Milan and Cunningham, Ballet, Flying Low by David Zambrano and Body Mind Centering at the School of arts SNDO in Amsterdam. In 2001 she graduated majoring in Dance Theatre Direction within interactive audio-visual installations. She worked as assistant of Sasha Waltz in Nobody, with Min Tanaka in Japan,
After receiving his B.Arch degree from İstanbul Technical University Department of Architecture in 2011, he started working as an architect at DBArchitects. He is a master candidate in Architectural Design Computing Program at Istanbul Technical University since 2012. During his graduate studies, he attended several international workshops and tutored national workshops about digital fabrication and
works as artist, curator and educator. Ertan is the founder and artistic director of İstanbul based amberPlatform ( by BIS, Beden-İşlemsel Sanatlar Derneği / Body-Process Arts Association), which is a research and production platform on art and new technologies. Ertan is the curator of the international “amber Art and Technology Festival” since 2007. Ertan is
is an Architect and an Assistant Professor at Hyperbody, Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft, The Netherlands. After being involved with investigating the inter-relation of Media and Architecture throughout his formative educational years at CEPT, Ahmadabad, India, he furthered his interests in the inter-disciplinary realm at the Architectural Association, London, UK, where he specialized in the field of Emergent Technologies and
She is a masters candidate in Architectural Design Computing Program at Istanbul Technical University since 2012 and works as an architect at BUDA Mimarlık. Her research and interests focus on design education, cognitive studies of the design process, digital media and patterns. She received her B.Arch degree from İstanbul Technical University Department of Architecture in
This year, amber’14 Art and Technology Festival is organised in a fairly unusual way. What you’ll be witnessing will be a “no call”, “no budget”, “no center” festival which will feature autonomous projects minimising the need for central organisation. Under the topic of Merkezsizleşme / Decentralisation, amber’14 hosts a sum of self-organised and self-financed microeconomic