GMU:Istanbul/Asymmetrical Patterns

Asymetrical

1. Having no balance or symmetry.
2. Chemistry Of or relating to a carbon atom having four different atoms or structural groups attached to it, resulting in an unbalanced spatial arrangement of atoms in a molecule, so that the molecule cannot be superimposed on its mirror image; chiral.

Patterns

1. A model or original used as an archetype.
2. A person or thing considered worthy of imitation.
3. A plan, diagram, or model to be followed in making things: a dress pattern. See Synonyms at ideal.
4. A representative sample; a specimen.

We have been researching the concept of patters, not only in the visual sense but also from the psychological approach. People have a tendency to behave or act in a certain way when they have to deal with similar situations. We want to try to either create our own unrealistic patters and then apply them possibly in public in order to record a reaction. It could even be possible to adopt this patterns as part of a lifestyle. Repetition can also be identified as pattern..

We would like to create an interactive project amongst the students of the Marmara Univeristy and us, while exploring Istanbul. The concept is, that we would both reflect on the city, us, as first time visitors, and them, as inhabitants. We aim to contact them and have an exchange of imaginative patterns, which will have to be developed into an interactive approach of the city. They would have to work on creating a project with the pattern that we give them, and we will have to create an art installation/project with the pattern they give to us.

The approach towards this on our side, will most probably be executed with either the medium of Film or Photography, and inevitably sound.