Video Installation Common Stage: Flow, is a one of the data abstraction works created using Public Mobility Data Flow of the city of Vienna.

Cities also have a memory. Artists transform the components of this memory into perception by giving it a shape. In this exhibition, curated by Mehmet Kahraman, the artist Ozan Türkkan is creating a series of data abstractions, in which he will derive connections, variables and transformations of the data flow of a collective memory (archive), which is permanently produced by individuals into the public space. Public mobility data will be used to create visualizations. Such as; Public Bus Flows, Subways, Trams, Urban Bike Mobility and also Analysis of Pedestrian Flow in Public Spaces.

With these visualizations we would feel the pulse of urban mobility and create portraits of a city in a artistic way defined by its transient dynamics.

Common Stage is a 3 part project which will include; 1. Vienna, 2. Istanbul, 3. Berlin.

Vienna

The quality of a city’s public spaces has a decisive influence on its feel-good factor. The public space provides impetus for many of the city’s essential functions – for mobility, commerce and culture, not to mention leisure and recreation.

Vienna is a already a model city with regard to public spaces and mobility: in 2015, 73% of people in Vienna used environmentally friends traffic modes (footpaths, bicycle paths and public transport) and a mere 27% relied on their own cars.

And Growing Through More Sustainability, More Open Mindedness and Participation.

First exhibition consist of three data sculptures / visual installations which will be created by using Public Mobility Data of the City of Vienna.

Project Page: www.ozanturkkan.com/portfolio/flow_02

Currently based in Vienna, new media artist, Ozan Turkkan was born in Turkey. He worked many years in the field of multimedia and digital arts. Before the very first steps in digital media, he studied and practiced various art disciplines in Philadelphia, Salamanca and Barcelona in collaboration with numerous institutions, and art centres.

After graduating from The University of Salamanca, he received his Master degree in Multimedia at BAU (Escola Superior de Disseny, Universitat Central de Catalunya) in Barcelona, where he lived and worked many years years as a new media artist.

His works were exhibited in Art Centers, Museums and Galleries such as; Santa Monica Art Centre Barcelona, Reina Sofia Museum Madrid, Centre of Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci Florance, Torrance Museum Los Angeles, Victoria House London, Lincoln Center NY, Banannefabrik Luxembourg, Europalia Art Festival Brussels, Les Brigittines Contemporary Arts Centre Brussels, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Santral Istanbul, Akbank Art Istanbul, Gallery Mitte Barcelona, LOOP Videoart Festival Barcelona, Rotterdamse Schowbourg Rotterdam, WUK Vienna.

His work is centered on experimental digital media with a focus on generative computer arts, fractals, algorithmic art, virtual reality experiences, interactive art, and motion as a reflection of impermanent nature of existence, human and social behavior. He uses technology as a canvas to create innovative and engaging digital art installations to observe forms of interaction, social exchange, participation and transformation.

Living in numerous cities throughout of his life Ozan Turkkan has developed a sense of multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism which characterized his works. Complicated structures, conflicting and coexisting colors and diversity have been a parameter to push the artist to stress on complex field which is converging around the art, new technologies and the sciences of nature.

He likes to explore the many-folded boundaries between science, art and new technologies, and combining different media elements in a creative process.