[spectre] Data Asymmetries: An Interview with Burak Arikan

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Data Asymmetries: An Interview with Burak Arikan | By Carleigh

How does network mapping exist as a tool for visualizing a politics of
control as well as routes of emancipation from surveillance? In the first
of a two-part interview series, artist/technologist Burak Arikan addresses
this question in the context of his work on network mapping and diagramming
the invisible forces of power that shape our contemporary moment.

Burak Arikan is one of Turkey’s leading media artists, a figure who
straddles the lines between technologist and practitioner. He explores
relations between data and transactions, the regimes of datafication and
identification as control, and maps relations of power and invisible
infrastructures with network mapping tools. According to new media theorist
Jussi Parikka, Burak’s pieces “raise questions of the predictability of
ordinary human behavior with MyPocket(2008); reveal insights into the
infrastructure of megacities like Istanbul as a network of mosques,
republican monuments and shopping malls (Islam, Republic, Neoliberalism,
2012); remap and organise recurring patterns in the official tourism
commercials of governments with Monovacation (2012); explore the growth of
networks via visual and kinetic abstraction with Tense (2007-2012); and
showcase collective production of network maps from the Graph Commons
platform.”

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/data-asymmetries-interview-burak-arikan
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