BURAK ARIKAN / Physical Language Workshop (PLW) / MIT Media Lab

Micro Fashion Network
Exploring the effects of the fashion system by creating a network with the basic elements color and time.

Follow Dada
Exploring the relationship between information density, physical distance, and intuitive human acts.

OPENSTUDIO Alpha
A unique online synthesis of creativity and capitalism in an experimental online art exchange economy.

Happenings
Real Time Rome exhibition at the Venice Biennale. September 8, 2006. Venice, Italy.
Real Time Rome presentation at Ars Electronica Festival. September 3, 2006. Linz, Austria.
Simplicity Panel at Ars Electronica Festival. September 2, 2006. Linz, Austria.
Pinkies and Open I/O presentation at the ISEA2006/ZeroOne Festival. August 11, 2006. San Jose, CA.
MAS thesis "Collective Systems for Creative Expression" is completed. June 2006.

Visual Systems
Exploring dynamic reactive systems that receive and process input as a means of generating and altering visual compositions. These systems are composed of basic visual forms, images, software, and data from certain contexts.

Spatial Systems
Exploring physical space and devices as parts of larger digital systems. These systems are composed of electronics, sensors and actuators, RFIDs, microprocessor programs, software services, protocols, and certain materials.

Collective Systems
Building platforms that enable collectivity for creative expression. These systems are composed of creation and collaboration tools, aggregation systems, economic models, software services, protocols, and programming interfaces.

	Micro Fashion Network 2005 Fashion systems as networks of colors in time.
	Cellular Nations 2005 Mapping the global economic information to a visual system.
	Control 2005 Implicit form study.
	Bored-er 2005 A photographic manifesto for a world without national borders.
	Type Study 2005 A study of city grids and typography.
	Data POV 2004 The virtual camera as a medium for information visualization.
	Dynamic Compositions 2003 A set of programs exploring the medium of computation.
	Camera-n 2002 Geometric procedures for the virtual camera.
	Captures 2003 Exploring objects, patterns, and architecture.

	Follow Dada 2005 Exploring the relationship between information density and physical distance.
	Pinkie 2005 An electronics prototyping board.
	Flexible Screen Applications 2005 Hybrid interfaces to access digital content.
	Auction Machine 2005 Networked auction software with RFIDs connected to a larger online market.
	SRC-XYZ 2005 Sensing sound direction with a network of microphones.
	Under Control 2004 Networked physical communication based on negative and positive space.
	Vocode-esque 2004 Analog and digital 8 band vocoding synthesizer and its discontents.

	Open I/O 2006 Software services for sharing physical media.
	OPENSTUDIO 2005 An experiment in creativity, collaboration, and capitalism.
	Open-tasking 2005 An online workspace formed by the network of people, documents, and tasks.
	SPS 2004 A dialect of XML for Simple Project Syndication.
	ActiviXML 2004 A dialect of XML to abstract the information flow between social activist communities.
	Ucantekme 2001-2003 An independent platform of reaction to the events that make substantial impacts in our daily lives.

MIT / ML / PLW / OPENSTUDIO