21 November Thursday Visiting Hours: 10:00 - 19:00
Children who visit Calculations and Coincidences with a guided tour are inspired by the colorful works in the exhibition. They wet coffee filters and paint them with felt-tip pens, creating coincidental patterns with the combination of different colors. The children then stick the filters, which dry and turn into different flowers, onto cardboards.
Inspired by Arthur C. Clarke's short story The Sentinel, the film delves into themes of artificial intelligence, human evolution, consciousness, and technology. Renowned for its groundbreaking visual effects and minimalistic dialogue, it profoundly impacted modern cinema and is still regarded as a visionary work ahead of its time.
Participants visit Calculations and Coincidences, which brings together the individual practices of Molnár, Maurer and Rákóczy in relation to each other and offers the opportunity to witness how the artists shaped the art of algorithms. In the workshop, participants create three-dimensional paintings by painting wooden cubes and various geometric shapes in different colors and patterns.
It is not easy to describe Vera Molnár's work. A pioneer of digital art and one of the first to use computers, Molnár employed geometric shapes that she reproduced according to a particular methodology. The documentary by Laszlo Horvath focuses on this free-spirited artist.
Pera Classics welcomes Nox Ensemble, known for its contemporary interpretations of classical music, in the year’s final concert, With the theme “Musical Moments,” the concert offers a farewell to 2024, honoring enduring memories. The concert invites listeners to reflect on the year’s cherished memories through works by timeless composers such as Boccherini, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Shostakovich.
The November guests of the Author-Editor Conversations, organized in collaboration with Pera Museum and Atlas Publishing Lab, are two authors: İlhami Algör and Vedat Ozan. These two authors from various disciplines and genres are coming together to discuss İlhami Algör's newly published book from İletişim Publishing, Jül Vern Seyahat Acentesi.
Selected from the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Photography Collection, we present the landscapes and places in Istanbul photographs, dating from the 1850s to the 1980s, together with their present-day views!
The publication accompanying the exhibition features Kinga Rózsa Hamvai's curatorial text and Kerem Ozan Bayraktar's essay, "I Love Order but I Can't Stand It," which takes its title from Vera Molnár's words. Bayraktar's text explores Molnár's practice alongside the historical context of algorithmic art.
The catalogue accompanying the exhibition includes a text by curators Prof. Aslı Serbest, Prof. Mona Mahall and Yelta Köm delving into the comprehensive background of the exhibition along with a text by Begüm Özden Fırat and Çisel Karacebe looking at the relations between the various art spaces in the area of Dolapdere and their neighborhoods.
The publication accompanying the exhibition includes a comrepehensive curatorial text by Ulya Soley in addition to a thought-provoking piece by Glenn Adamson titled “Ceramics in Tomorrowland” which explores the role ceramics play in revealing valuable but abstract information regarding their origins.
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