Citrinitas.Elif.Ayiter.aka.Alpha.Auer

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Elif Ayiter is an artist, designer and educator, specialising in the development of hybrid educational methodologies between art&design and computer science. She has presented research output at conferences including Siggraph, Consciousness Reframed, Creativity and Cognition and Computational Aesthetics. She is currently studying for a doctoral degree at the Planetary Collegium, CAiiA hub at the University of Plymouth.

Elif speaks fluent English and German along with her native tongue, Turkish. Her interests are all things digital, crime fiction and animals; of which she has an entourage of 11 cats, 1 mongrel dog and 1 terrapin.
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Alpha Auer is a totally irreverent, mischievous, politically incorrect, frivolous, fashion victim avatar in Second Life, whose blog entries can be viewed at http://alphaauer.wordpress.com/


	............................................................................................. Elif Ayiter is an artist, designer and educator, specialising in the development of hybrid educational methodologies between art&design and computer science. She has presented research output at conferences including Siggraph, Consciousness Reframed, Creativity and Cognition and Computational Aesthetics. She is currently studying for a doctoral degree at the Planetary Collegium, CAiiA hub at the University of Plymouth. Elif speaks fluent English and German along with her native tongue, Turkish. Her interests are all things digital, crime fiction and animals; of which she has an entourage of 11 cats, 1 mongrel dog and 1 terrapin. ............................................................................................. Alpha Auer is a totally irreverent, mischievous, politically incorrect, frivolous, fashion victim avatar in Second Life, whose blog entries can be viewed at http://alphaauer.wordpress.com/

	Propagating Collaboration Presented at Creativity and Cognition 2007, June 2007. Washington, DC. Co-authors (in alphabetical order): Selçuk Artut (Sound Design) sartut@sabanciuniv.edu Selim Balcısoy (Computer Engineering) balcisoy@sabanciuniv.edu Murat Germen (Architecture) muratgermen@sabanciuniv.edu ................................................................................................ The Bridge Project Presented at CAe2007, Banff, Canada in June 2007 and Siggraph 2006 in Boston, USA, on August 3rd 2006. ................................................................................................. Fluxitecture Presented at ?F.A.q. > Perguntas sobre Arte, Consciência e Tecnologia, on December 2nd 2006. SSEC, Sao Paulo, Brasil. ................................................................................................ The Palace Project Presented at the Consciousness Reframed 8 conference at the University of Plmouth, UK, on July 22nd 2006. ................................................................................................. StylesForStarters Presented at the Symposiodesign Amman 2006 conference, Applied Science University, Amman, Jordan on May 10th 2006 ................................................................................................. The representation and navigation of Complex Data Presented at "Toward a Science of Consciousness 2006" April 4-8, Tucson Convention Center, Tucson, Arizona The University of Arizona at Tucson Co-authors (in alphabetical order): Selçuk Artut (Sound Design) sartut@sabanciuniv.edu Selim Balcısoy (Computer Engineering) balcisoy@sabanciuniv.edu Murat Germen (Architecture) muratgermen@sabanciuniv.edu Yacov Sharir (Wearable computers, virtıal environment) sharir@mail.utexas.edu Click to access website >>> ................................................................................................. entré loup et chien Presented at the "Transmodlities: mind, art, new media" symposium at Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey on December 2nd 2005. Abstract: Words were originally magic, and the word retains much of its old magical power even to-day. With words one man can make another blessed, or drive him to despair; by words the teacher transfers his knowledge to the pupil; by words the speaker sweeps his audience with him and determines its judgments and decisions. Words call forth effects and are the universal means of influencing human beings. Therefore let us not underestimate the use of words... Sigmund Freud Flashback: entré loup et chien ... Within clouds reminiscent of ancient seas floated rocks, gnawed down with your blood. What a pity! You vanished in great numbers as if coexistent with a time that never was. I bent and picked up the sky from the ground, the sky you had carelessly dropped. Oktay Rifat He is my ageing uncle. We are sitting in the garden of his house by the Aegeian sea. I am 19 years old, and as ever mesmerised by him. It is twilight hour in late August. We are surrounded by wide open, darkening summer skies, the blurring outlines of trees and shrubs and the far off sounds of encroaching night. And then he says: “entré loup et chien”... That is all he says and in that one sentence I know what I must do, I have just been given a mission: I must seek that creature, the one that stands between the day and night; neither wolf nor dog. I must seek it with images and not words, although maybe words as well, or words that transform into images, narrative condensed into image: The transformation of the “dream thought” by way of the “dream work” into the “image work”. I am, of course, referring to the realm of the unconscious which, Freud tells us “... must be accepted as the general basis of the psychic life. The unconscious is the larger circle which includes the smaller circle of the conscious; everything conscious has a preliminary unconscious stage, whereas the unconscious can stop at this stage, and yet be considered a full psychic function. The unconscious is the true psychic reality; in its inner nature it is just as much unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly communicated to us by the data of consciousness as is the external world by the reports of our sense-organs”. download pdf >>> download doc >>> download slideshow (PC only) >>> ................................................................................................. Creating Virtual Environments in a multidisciplinary classroom Presented at the Educator's Program at Siggraph, August 3rd 2005 Co-author: Selim Balcısoy (balcisoy@sabanciuniv.edu) Abstract: In this paper we report on an interdisciplinary course “Computing and Art” taught at the Sabanci University, Istanbul for the first time in Fall of 2004. The two faculty members teaching the course as well as the students are an equal mix from the visual communication design and computer science departments. The course’s objective is to create interactive 3D virtual environments by multiple teams of students comprised of one computer science and one design student each. The students are challenged to develop real-time graphics software and well designed virtual spaces and/or interfaces as part of the course project. However the primary mission for both domain members is to create meaningful content that is to be implemented into a non-linear spatial structure, possessing non-linear narrative; thus necessitating content development, scenario and dialogue writing, as well as research, such as relevant social, historic, art historic, audial or scientific data, when and as needed. In this paper we present the structure of the course, as well as some of the projects and discuss the lessons learned download>>> ................................................................................................. Ctrl+c,x,v,y,z Presnted at the Acces Grid at Siggraph, August 3rd 2005 Abstract: I have been advised to take a free fall... The following is the diary of two journeys that occur simultaneously: One involves trains, taxicabs and planes. Changes in climate and scenery, stays in hotels. From Plymouth, England towards LA, beginning on the 28th of July 2005 and ending on July 31st 2005, in other words 2 days ago... The other journey is ongoing, has kept me on the road for a long time now. This one involves a computer, at this paticular time a laptop, an assortment of image processing and 3D software, and an internet connection that will lead me to a search engine... A quija board, a playground of unexpected encounters and combinations... Note: Due to the experimental nature of the presentation the word document and the powerpoint presentation have to be viewed simultaneously. The slides are marked on the word document. download>>> ................................................................................................. The Fluid City Presnted at the "Consciousness Reframed: Altered States" conference, University of Plymouth, UK on July 24th 2005 Abstract: This paper describes the conceptualisation, design and implementation of a multilayered public 3D map system that allows its users to be part of the construction by means of the collection and input of the data needed for the task. Wishing to provide a historic framework for the project “The Fluid City”, the paper also looks at a brief history of cartography and types of maps, GIS and a survey history of Istanbul and her historic maps. download paper>>> download presentation>>> .................................................................................................