About Falling Times
Falling Times is an everlasting and growing real-time news translation machine representing permanently appearing and disappearing information about our times and, simultaneously, the fall of our western decadent civilization.
Falling Times refers to the heavy InfoPollution we live in. The InfoSociety has created a new kind of consumer – the InfoConsumer! The most consumed information is the news today. The news has been turning more and more into an entertainment – the Infotainment. The news producers are the biggest info polluters of our time and thus are the biggest contributors to the infoEcological disaster.
In our visualization we reduce the content only to headlines and key words that appear in the news the most often. These reduced news are translated into a dynamic pictogram language that is considered to be universal and instantly understandable.
Participate!
Help to create collective news by defining the meaning of the falling icons. You are creating the news. You are the newsmaker. Your news are the true news. By adding a keyword or a sequence of key words to an icon you select which news will be displayed. You are free how many icons you choose to define. Have fun.
Uncharted: User Frames in Media Arts
Combining education, research, production and exhibition facilities in the field of art and cultural studies, santralistanbul now presents the “Uncharted: User Frames in Media Arts” exhibition realised with the contribution of ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, a pioneering cultural institution for the last 20 years in Europe, ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, also a distinguished design institute in Europe, and independent curators.
The “Uncharted” exhibition includes a selection of contemporary artworks involving the large-scale use of digital and interactive media. The exhibition features works both by renowned and as yet unknown avant-garde artists and groups of artists from all over the world. Interactive and immersive qualities of the works will be well to the fore to enable the visitors to discover spectacular forms of artistic expression and radical changes in the relationship between the visitor and the work of art. As a module presented by ZKM, “YOU_ser: The Century of the Consumer,” curated by Peter Weibel and Bernhard Serexhe, shows the first contours of this new user-based art through changing art works and positions. Works by young artists, especially who participated in different contexts to the media festivals initiating technological advancements on digital platform, are exhibited in the module curated by Ahmet Atıf Akın on behalf of santralistanbul.