Landscape / Mindscape

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Contents

Horizons An Interlude by Frank Chouraqui

Maps & LocationsBerk KutlucanCan KöroğluCem AltınözDino OmeroviçEce İşmenEda SütunçEzgi AtayKübra IşıklıMelik KuruMüge HuyluoğluOğuzhan ÜstünSuzy AsaApart_mentA Collective Experimental Stopmotion Project

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Any –scape, landscape or mindscape, lies surrounded by horizons. A landscape is not a land and a mindscape is not a mind, unless they are viewed, and it is the view-ing that assigns them their horizons. Turn your head sideways and the horizons move. Landscapes are dependent on our view, and mindscapes too: the limit of a landscape is not the limit of the land it is the limit of our vision, the limits of a mindscape is not the lim-it of our minds but the limit of our inner vision.

HorizonsA N I N T E R L U D E B Y F R A N K C H O U R A Q U I

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Any –scape, landscape or mindscape, lies surrounded by horizons. A landscape is not a land and a mindscape is not a mind, unless they are viewed, and it is the view-ing that assigns them their horizons. Turn your head sideways and the horizons move. Landscapes are dependent on our view, and mindscapes too: the limit of a landscape is not the limit of the land it is the limit of our vision, the limits of a mindscape is not the lim-it of our minds but the limit of our inner vision.

A N I N T E R L U D E B Y F R A N K C H O U R A Q U I

INTERLUDEINTERLUDEINTERLUDE

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They are the limits that arise at the point of

encounter of the land and the vision. Hori-

zons are the places where mindscape and

landscape become indistinguishable: look-

ing at a landscape is looking at our abili-

ty to establish horizon onto the land that

lies there, indifferent. Horizons, there-

fore, are the encounter of mind and land,

and this encounter is what makes lands

into landscapes and minds into mind-

scapes, all at once. And so, landscapes

and mindscapes seem to have a new hori-

zon: each other, in their interdependence.

The landscape stops at my eyes and stretch-

es towards the horizon, and my mindscape

extends from my mind’s eye to my eyes of

flesh. There, on the surface of my eyes of

flesh, mindscape meets landscape. There,

on the surface of my eyes, landscapes meet

mindscapes, and they turn into each other.

Which is a metaphor for the other: is my

eye of flesh a metaphor for my mind’s eye,

or the reverse?

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My mind of flesh alone would not see, and

would never have the power to set down the

horizons that turn a land into a landscape.

My mind’s eye alone would not be able to

ever make the encounter with the land that

horizons require. Maybe they only exist with

each other, maybe they both make their

struggle in parallel: a fight to survive the

tricks of perspective, to travel in the –scape

to see what lies behind each hill, tree, build-

ing, idea, fear, or memory. For my mindscape,

like any landscape exists because it is mine,

because it exists in my perspective and

there alone. That is to say, it exists because

it is made of obstructions and discoveries,

guesses and broken expectations: the teach-

ings of travels. Just like landscapes exist

just because objects can hide each other or

blur in the background. The horizons of our

mindscape exist because our mind stretch-

es away from us, and leaves us behind.

INTERLUDE

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Berk Kutlucan

Only the natures rules apply. Man-made rules and laws are barriers that

block our perception. God is the only enforcer.

Earth turns to earth, ash turns to ash, dust turns to dust.

Only the natures rules apply.

GOD IS NOT BLUE

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Can Köroğlu

They gazed, and dared at last to comprehendThey were the Simurgh and the journey’s end.

They see the Simurgh - at themselves they stare,And see a second Simurgh standing there;They look at both and see the two are one,That this is that, that this, the goal is won.

INSIDE OUTNº2

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Cem Altınöz

Déjà vu only shows itself in abstract visions. It’s fractions are always limited, with layers and layers of hidden memo-

ries. When deja vu is experienced, spaces become familiar, diluted by

our perception.

DÉJÀ VU

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LANDSCAPE / MINDSCAPELANDSCAPE / MINDSCAPELANDSCAPE / MINDSCAPE

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Dino Omeroviç

A city is chaotic. And it is becoming more and more chaotic. People’s actions are formed by chaos but also these actions further feed the chaos. And within this

chaos everyone creates their own func-tioning path and this creates a new order

where we are all affected from one another…

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Ece İşmen

On the day we were born all the grim reap-ers chanted our names. We were born of

sour milk, born of broken hymen. And we were told, where both life and

death are inevitable, all our wounds would be mortal.

BIRTH &OTHER DEFEATS

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LANDSCAPE / MINDSCAPE

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LANDSCAPE / MINDCAPE

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Eda Sütunç

Eyescape explores our unconscious and con-scious will to stare at the people around us in public transportation. Civil inattention is the process whereby strangers who are in close proximity demonstrate that they are aware of one another, without imposing their presence on each other. We want to look at each other,

but if we are “civilized”, we try not to. Eyescape is depicting our will to

look at other people.

EYESCAPE

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LANDSCAPE / MINDCAPE

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Eda Sütunç

Ambivalence is a performative video that focuses on the feeling of being stuck with

the pleasure of forgetting the chaos of daily life by watching TV, desensitization

of the self and deviation from social and political issues.

This escape is coupled with the unpleas-ant feeling of being trapped in front of a TV, the agony of loss of time, leaving one

in a constant guilt trip.

AMBIVALENCE

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Ezgi Atay

“Who are you, Jenny?” addresses the issues of identity. It steeply illustrates the challenges associated with being a

woman in a heavily male dominated world. The figure of woman is introduced to us not just as a mother who looks after her

baby and cooks, but also as a criminal, an artist, a boxer and in many other roles that

comes and goes in her mind.

WHO ARE YOU, JENNY?

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LANDSCAPE / MINDSCAPE

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Kübra Işıklı

Do social roles define women or are they just obstacles to keep themselves apart from who they really are? In this video, inspired by the “find the match” game,

it is intended to question the social roles women carry.

THE MATCHING GAME

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Melik Kuru

5’28” of happiness is a work that high-lights the incompatibility between our

emotional states and our expression of them. While it tries to reveal that this

nonconformity requires us to perform in a certain manner, it inevitably illustrates the blurring of boundaries between what can be seen as “acted” and what otherwise

is a “natural” reflection of our pure emo-tions. Consequently, the viewer is invited to ponder on the inevitable question: “is alienation to self and others the ultimate

end in this perpetual performance of conformism?”

5’28’’ OF HAPPINESS

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Müge Huyluoğlu

Enjoying your beers and writing short stories together... That night, you start to

believe every single day ahead will at least be this nice, but the opposite happens. It gets worse and worse. Someday, he

passes by not saying hi and worse with-out even noticing you are there... And that

moment... You cannot even breathe.

O.O.T.

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Oğuzhan Üstün

“Siddhartha,” he said, “why are you waiting?”“You know why.”

“Will you go on standing and waiting until it is day, noon, evening?”

“I will stand and wait.”“You will grow tired, Siddhartha.”

“I will grow tired.”“You will fall asleep, Siddhartha.”

“I will not fall asleep.”“You will die, Siddhartha.”

“I will die.”

SIDDARTHA

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Suzy Asa

When encountered with reality, all senses revolt.A vibration appears in the vacancy.

Memories, those are unable to catch the vibe, run one after the another.

Because there is “the rage to know” As long as man keeps hearing words He’s sure that there’s a meaning somewhere

says Mephistopheles in Goethe’s Faust

Because there is “the rage to know”When encountered with reality, all senses revolt.

Though, the layers; the layers we are bound to forget, do join the revolution as well. *

CACOPHONY

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*TEXT IN THE VIDEO IS BY LYN HEJINIANENDFRAGMENT “THE REJECTION OF CLOSURE”

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A Collective Experimental Stop Motion Project

by Fall 2014 Basic Design Students

Each individual has their own reality in their own apartment.

Having apart stories while being a part of the same perpendicular.

APART_MENT

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2 N D F L O O R - T O Y WA R S

Selin İnsel, Defne Sökmen, Neslihan Uluağaç, Yasemin Morova, Aslı Aydede, Elif Kayurtar,

Asya Asena Koca, Melis Katırcıoğlu, Naz Yıldız, Tuğçe Güçer

1 S T F L O O R - O R D E R O M A N I A C

Yağmur Gökçe, Aslı Aykut, Selman Yücetürk, Öykü Çetin, Melis Özdemir, Pınar Apaydın

G R O U N D F L O O R - M A C H I N E À B R U I T

Eren Güleç, Jülide Erdöl, Bartu Mutlu, Ozan Dolunay, Günsu Sarı, Serra Duran,

Natali Levi, Özge Akpınar

B A S E M E N T - U N T I T L E D

Yağmur Esen, Ece Naz Efe, Alara Altay, Burcu Ataman, Mine Polat, Ezgi Melis Koçer,

Ali Akalan, Cem Tokgöz

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#şiirsokakta

Ahmet Alper KoçakAlara Onur

Baturay ArslanBeste Özdeşlik

Can KöroğluCem Türedi

Çağdaş İlke ÜnalDilan Ezgi Üstünyağız

Eda SütunçFatih Emre Soylu

Leyla Ferayİrem Türkmen

Onur SiphaiSerra Duran

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DİDEM PEKÜNA. EVREN YANTAÇ

ÇAĞLA TURGUL

EDA SÜTUNÇ

CAN KÖROĞLU

SİNAN KARAÇAM

ÇETİN TUNCA

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Outro.

DİDEM PEKÜNA. EVREN YANTAÇ

ÇAĞLA TURGUL

EDA SÜTUNÇ

CAN KÖROĞLU

SİNAN KARAÇAM

ÇETİN TUNCA

S U P E R V I S O R S

G R A P H I C D E S I G N

B O O K L E T D E S I G N

A N I M A T I O N T E A S E R

T E C H N I C A L A D V I S O R

P R I N T S

D I F O L A B

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