Coincidence is an urban synchronization project that harnesses publicly accessible traffic and tourist live camera feeds from Istanbul, transforming them into living collages with multiple scenes that continuously evolve in real time. The project aims to re-synchronize the neighborhoods of Istanbul under an ongoing cultural separation because of political and ideological tension among different demographics, by merging seemingly unrelated urban structures from various districts into collages to create couplings for the audience to observe and witness manifest a unison. Observing the collaboration of different pieces from various camera streams is a complex phenomenon; however, since the collage is live, there is a small probability that the audience will observe subjectively higher-level harmonic instances that generate emotional seisms and perturbate the pitch of each piece toward unity.

Since the project utilizes real-time camera streams and is observed live by the audience, the artwork is prone to potential delays and errors, and hence it is crucial to make every process as efficient and computationally safe as possible by considering it to be a safety-critical system. To safeguard the artwork against such failures, the entire process is segmented and encapsulated into individual scripts. While these scripts interact and collaborate with one another, they also operate using parallel processing, making isolated cores work together, resulting in software and hardware level collages, paralleling the goal of harmony and amplifying the effect of manifestation.

With Support From> Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality for their open-source live traffic camera streams. The Istanbul Modern Art Museum – Young Artists of Digital Art-program

Received an honorary mention from Prix Ars Electronica 2024 in the Interactive Art+ category.

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Exhibitions

[NOISE_VIENNA_2024] \ [@PALAIS FESTETICS] \ [12092024-15092024]

[TIMELESS CURIOCITIES] \ [@ISTANBUL MODERN] \ [15022024-11072024]