Media’s Social Arena from Posts to Clippings with Artist Aslı Uludağ

We first attend a virtual tour of the And Now the Good News: Works from the Nobel Collection exhibition, which takes the newspaper as an intellectual starting point and focuses on the relationship between text and news, the ways in which the invention of photography have shaped society, and the powerful effect totalitarian systems have on mass media.Then, we discuss why today’s media socialization is mainly attached to digital media with artist Aslı Uludağ, who investigates the contemporary techno-scientific, architectural, and legal interventions to the environment and the violence that accompanies them. Next, we look at some newspaper clippings, all from the same time period, and construct an imaginary day using the information we gather from these. We write a letter describing this imaginary day and prepare a social arena diagram based on this letter. From here, we study the social arena described by the newspaper clippings, map this arena by writing and drawing specific locations, and reimagine social media through this lens.

Materials
Desktop or Laptop Computer    

Related Exhibition: And Now the Good News: Works from the Nobel Collection

Artist: Aslı Uludağ
Capacity: 10 participants
Duration: 90 minutes

Fee per Workshop: 100 TL
Fee per Workshop for Students: 75 TL

Participants will receive a certificate of participation via e-mail after the event.

This event will be held on Zoom Meeting and will consist of a guided virtual tour of the exhibition, followed by a workshop related to the exhibition.

The participants’ cameras and microphones need to be enabled so that the instructor can see the participants and make participant-specific suggestions. Each participant’s consent is assumed upon registration.

About Aslı Uludağ

Aslı Uludağ (born 1990) received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MA in Research Architecture from Goldsmiths University. Her work consists of practical research that studies the contemporary techno-scientific, architectural, and legal interventions to the environment and the violence that accompanies them. Her productions involve performative and interactive installations, workshops and narratives that make these interventions visible and offer alternative ways for humans to interact with the environment. Uludağ is a recipient of the Prince Claus Mentorship Award (2022), and she is a participant in the Arter Research Programme (İstanbul, 2021) and İstanbul Biennial Production and Research Programme (2021). Her work has recently been featured in the What Water Knows exhibition (Pilot Galeri, İstanbul, 2022) and the 5th Istanbul Design Biennial (2020), and she has been a guest artist at IASPIS (Stockholm, 2021-2022), PACT (Essen, 2021) and Gate 27 (Ayvalık, 2021). Uludağ’s workshops have been offered in SALT (İstanbul, 2021) and Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, 2021), and she is one of the founding members of the Practices of Attunement.