Monovacation, 2013
Burak Arikan
Monovacation, 2013
Custom software, colour HD video projection
3 minutes loop
Digital print
180 x 120 cm
Installation view
Produced for VitrA Contemporary Architecture
Photo by Alfredo Rubio
Overview
Tourism commercials define the subjectivity of the traveler, telling us where to have fun, how to relax and which historical sites to admire. A large selection of these visual fictions were split into pieces and analysed, each clip tagged with its content and the tags then used to create a network map of shared concepts. Such a cartography also enables a new technique of montage, creating a generic construct of 'vacation'.
Monovacation consists of three parts: the original tourism commercials that were used as data, presented in grid form; a digital print of the network map of tags created by content analysis of each clip; and a generic video of a vacation as edited via network analysis.
2013
This project was part of Sharjah Biennial 11
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Fantasy of Vacation
Burak Arikan
2013
Custom software, colour HD video projection
3 minutes loop
Digital print
180 x 120 cm
Installation view
Produced for VitrA Contemporary Architecture
Photo by Alfredo Rubio
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