Indoor Projection Mapping | Car Launch
NOTA BENE Visual – The Next-Range Rover – Autoshow 2012 / Istanbul
November the 1st, 2012

Client: Borusan Otomotiv – Land Rover

NOTA BENE Visual, performed the 1st of November, the day before the grand opening of the Autoshow’12, as a private session for press launch and VIP guests. And all along the Autoshow, during 10 days, the stage prepared for Land Rover Stand have been mapped with the visual content designed and controlled by NOTA BENE.

borusanotomotiv.com

Project Management: Burak Gölge
Art Director: Ayşegül Kantarcı
Mapping Direction: Tevfik R. Gözlükçü
Modeling and 3D Animation Management: Murat Can Oğuz
3D Modeling: Gökhan Güler
Music&Sound Design: Studio Takt

Thanks to: Nurzat Gölge, Sothis Mimarlık, StarAs, Dikmen Tayfur and Borusan Land Rover’s Communication Department

Watchout Screen: 54 x 4.20m

Indoor Projection Mapping | Van Launch
NOTA BENE Visual – Ford – Tourneo Custom, OTOSAN Ford Factory, Gölcük
July the 23rd, 2012

Client: Ford Otosan

NOTA BENE Visual, performed on the 21st of July in Gölcük Otosan Car Factory
for the launch meeting of Tourneo Custom Concept to welcome the first passenger model of Transit Family within the framework of  the 7th generation of Transit legend.

ford.com.tr

Project Management: Burak Gölge, Tevfik R. Gözlükçü
Production Designer: Ayşegül Kantarcı
Modeling and 3D Animation Manager: Murat Can Oğuz
3D Modeling: Gökhan Güler, Burak Taşer
2D Animations: Mustafa Gündem, Mert Can
Music&Sound Design: Combustion / Sound Design & Music

Thanks to: Nurzat Gölge, Özgün Kılıç, Sera Dink, İnci Yener, Elif Demirtaş, Scarlett Williams, Melis Erol, Ali Emre Özden, Burak Bulut, Özhan Topdemir, Caner J. Baykal, Oruç Reis Tilkici, Cem Taptık, Doruk Çapanik, Erge Yeksan, Berk Can, Cihaner Nişancı, Sami Öbek, Caner Saral, Timur Osman Poslu, Visio-Vox.

Watchout Screen: 20x6m

Kör Gibi Darbuka / Wheels of Change

A/V Performance on foam and fabric.
Performance Venue: IIT, Bombay
Techfest 2012 / INDIA
Stage Design: Born Digital, Nota Bene Visual

Note: The video is best viewed using headphones or good quality speakers.

Kör Gibi Darbuka session //
A/V Performer: Tevfik R. Gözlükçü
Drum Performance Record: Burhan Öçal

Just a small part of a minute 22′ performance in India. We collaborated with Born Digital,
our great friends from Utrecht / NL. The performance was divided into three different sessions within the concept of time notion.

Production Managers: Burak Gölge, Koen Van Lier
A/V Performers: Martin Boverhof, Tevfik R.Gözlükçü
Art Directors: Ayşegül Kantarcı, Martin Boverhof
Sound Design: Bas Gebbing

Special Thanks: Burhan Öçal, Serhan Lokman, Ahmetcan Taşdemir, Boncuk Yılmaz, Sushant Agarwal, Dinesh Sain, Rohit Nijhawan and great IIT Bombay crew.

Special Hates: Fucking Laser Pointer Guy (threat neutralized after the show)

Stage: 18x6x8m

Solardip is a music band based in Istanbul producing and performing electro/indie music. On February the 1st, NOTA BENE went with their new tracks from their last album ”Future Now” in Ghetto Istanbul, over an installation with eighteen transparent pieces layered onto four bars.

solardipband.com

Project Management: Burak Gölge
Art Director: Ayşegül Kantarcı
A/V Performer: Tevfik R. Gözlükçü
VFX Creative Director: Murat Can Oğuz

Thanks to: Nurzat Gölge, Sera Dink, Gölge Fotoğrafçılık, Yiğit Gürcihan, Mert Sezer

Indoor Projection Mapping | Car Launch
NOTA BENE Visual – Renault Z.E.Generation – Fluence, Susesi Hotel / Antalya
January the 20th, 2012

Client: Renault MAIS

NOTA BENE Visual, performed on the 20th of January in Antalya Susesi Hotel
during the Turkey Convention Meeting of Renault MAIS for Z.E. Generation.
Fluence Z.E. is the first electric car of Renault which has been
produced in Turkey ever.

renault-ze.com

Project Management: Burak Gölge
Art Director: Ayşegül Kantarcı
A/V Performer: Tevfik R. Gözlükçü
VFX Creative Director: Murat Can Oğuz
Music&Sound Design: Studio Takt

Thanks to: Nurzat Gölge, Visio-Vox, Serhat Oypan, Gamze Vanlı Erden, Mert Can, Berk Can

Watchout Screen: 24x6m

Interactive Typographic Installation
Exhibition Venue: Nutrecht Rail Factory & Trouw Amsterdam
Freemote’11 & Fiber Festival / Netherlands

Project Management: Burak Gölge
Art Director: Ayşegül Kantarcı
Installation Design: Tevfik R. Gözlükçü
Concept: Murat Can Oğuz
Synopsis: Murat Can Oğuz, Ayşegül Kantarcı
Translation and Adaptation: Begüm Avar
Special Thanks: Amber Platform, Born Digital, Orhan İhsanoğlu, Boncuk Yılmaz, Remco Van Es

A text discussing about the threshold on ethics and morality was looping on the floor, people who step on the typographic area to read it, realize them selves on the wall and the interaction process starts.

Everything that’s legal is not always fair. Everything that’s fair is not always legal.

Man, in every era, is both the victim and the killer. How ironic…The dynamics are changing… The dynamics have changed…The most evil of this era have been chosen: Violence, virtuality, singularity. But for what purpose? The purpose is control, the purpose is control, the purpose is control. The criminal tool is violence, the criminal tool is virtuality, the criminal tool is singularity.Control triggers everything, control triggers anything. But who pulls the trigger?
As we’ve just said, man is both the victim and the killer. He pulls the trigger every time he admits control. How ironic…
This inflicts lots of pain. This inflicts lots of pain.How ironic… Violence is committed in order to control. Man is left alone in order to be controlled.They do anything they can so that you don’t think, so that you don’t question, so that you don’t get organized.So that you don’t unite.
What is it to be free? Are you free at all? Is it ‘being free’ to walk on the streets? Is the notion of ‘being free’ to be found in your walking on the streets? Are you free when you walk on the streets? Is it really necessary to find out the opposite of everything? To find comfort in your mind by crosschecking everything? But what about blurry logic?
Does the possibility of being imprisoned makes you free when you walk on the streets? Those in the prison are captive, those outside are free – is that it? That’s all about black and white – but what about the grey zone?
Is everyone, who isn’t condemned, good? For instance, are you a good person ‘just’ because you haven’t opposed the law?
To do nothing is sometimes the worst thing you can do. Whenever you know but don’t act upon, you are committing crime as well. Are you really the one to distinguish the moral from the immoral? Sign some papers to make others believe that you love someone, pay your taxes to legitimize the diamond you bought.Anything sold in the market is legal. They are legal, aren’t they? Have you used your deodorant spray today? Well then, who caused that ozone hole? You don’t need to shoot an arrow to drill the ozone layer. The missile you launch into the space won’t punch a hole either.
Isn’t it pretty ironic? You are indeed free as long as you obey the law, as long as you sleep. Do you think you are a moral person? If your actions are moral, do you have any definition on the threshold of morality? There exist only some options presented to you. You do not exist. You may join the army, for instance, or attend a social responsibility project. Would your choice to attend the social responsibility project in order not to join the army make your stature a more moral one? We are not looking for what is more moral? We are after what is essential moral? Control gives birth to violence, to virtuality, to singularity. Violence isn’t just about hitting someone; think about your country, your government. Violence isn’t just about hitting someone; think about your country, your government. The threshold model is just another control mechanism, that system is just another source for violence. Multi-party system, they call it,  is there really a multi-party system? How many political parties are there to take the lead? Mostly, you vote for the majority just to stand against the party you dislike. Just to stand up strongly against the one you fear the most. Do you have any idea what that means? You accept the opposite group, you try to belong to a group yourself – do you know what that means? You become a soldier just to be a part of the majority. Do you think it really is necessary to join the army to become a soldier? You are becoming a soldier. You are becoming a soldier. Do you know what that means? Yes, you actually do, but you still settle for it. You become an associate. How ironic… How ironic… Is it ‘being free’ to walk on the streets? Is it really necessary to find out the opposite of everything? To find comfort in your mind by crosschecking everything? But what about blurry logic?
Does the possibility of being imprisoned makes you free when you walk on the streets? This is not a problem about the minorities; actually, this is a problem of majorities. Majority ventures to lose the detail; majority always forgets that the devil is hidden in that detail. It forgets how beautiful detail is. Or else, are you ignoring it? How ironic… How ironic…
Is there an ethical understanding? I’m talking about the universal ethics, not about social norms. I don’t really care about social norms. I don’t think that every disorganized is insane. I don’t think that every disorganized is insane.
What’s insane is control, what’s nonsense is control. That’s why some people like animals more than they like other people.
An animal never affects billions of animals. No animal, except human beings, ever speaks on behalf of millions of animals. I am sorry, but the prime minister’s call to the nation is not my concern. I am sorry, but the governments don’t represent anybody. But you still go and vote; even if you are one, even if you are minority, you vote to create a majority. But you still go and vote; even if you are one, even if you are minority, you vote to create a majority. You are one  more vote for the majority. How ironic… How ironic… Aren’t you responsible for what you haven’t actually done? Is life an analysis of a sentence? Is it the grammar rules that are valid? Is theory practical? Is practice theoretical? Is life an analysis of a sentence? Can’t you be the subject of something that you’re not actually a part of? Don’t you ever think? Everything that’s legal is not always fair. Everything that’s legal is not always fair. Everything that’s fair is not always legal. In his Letters on the Blind, Les Lettres Sur les Aveugles, Diderot said that a blind man feels less shame than the possessor of seeing eyes. What you don’t see affects you less. It is easier for a blind man to get naked than for a man who sees and knows the impact of nakedness. Is it easier to kill an ant or a horse? An ant is so small that you wouldn’t know how its legs are crushed, how its eyes burst out. But you can see how a horse gives its last breath, how blood runs out from its belly. It’s easier when you don’t see, isn’t it? People forget that the devil is hidden in the details. People forget that the devil is hidden in the details. Well then, where is ethics hidden? Where is the threshold of ethics? Not doing anything is mostly organized crime. Where is the point that you feel good? Are you moral, do you have a threshold? What is the definition of universal ethics? Does it have a threshold?

We are going to participate in FREEMOTE 11. See you there!

FREEMOTE = FREE & REMOTE collaboration = Cloud Computing = Akasha

FREEMOTE 11 & Partners:

Powered by:

> Born Digital (Utrecht/NL) > borndigital.nu

> City of Utrecht >utrecht.nl

> Treaty of Utrecht > vredevanutrecht2013.nl

> K.F. Hein Fonds > kfheinfonds.nl

Creative Partners:

> Verein fur Jetzkultur / B-seite (Mannheim/DE) > jetztkultur.de

> GarageCUBE (CH) > garagecube.com

> 1024 architecture (FR) > 1024architecture.net

> A MAZE (Berlin/DE) > amaze-festival.de

> Visual Berlin (Berlin/DE) > visualberlin.org

> roBOt (Bologna/IT) > robotfestival.it

> A-M-B-E-R (Istanbul/TR) > www.amberfestival.org

> NOTA BENE Visual (Istanbul/TR) > notabenevisual.com

> SETUP (Utrecht/NL) > www.setup.nl

> FIBER (Amsterdam/NL) > www.fiberfestival.nl

Software Partners:

> Resolume> www.resolume.com

> Modul8 > www.modul8.us

> Madmapper > www.madmapper.com

Educational Partners:

> Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU) Games & Interaction > www.hku.nl

> Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU) Art & Economy > www.hku.nl

Facility Partners:

> NUtrecht > www.nutrecht.nl

> Den Eelder (Zuiver Ambachtelijke Zuivel) > www.deneelder.nl

Technical Partner:

> BeamSystems (video) > www.beamsystems.nl

Dream-Optimism-Ayşe by NEN
Video Projection Mapping on Digital Print
A 2:00′digital print project animated via video mapping.

”Dream-Optimism-Ayşe”; is a part of the series titled ‘DNA’ by contemporary artist Nazlı Eda Noyan. This series is a satirical expression of opinions on the DNA of a nation. ”Dream-Optimism-Ayşe” are the three parts carving out the DNA series and mentioning to Ayşe Paşalı.

The project will be on display in ”cda | projects”  during the group exhibition, ”Untitled Original” [15/09/2011 - 15/10/2011].

Special thanks to NEN for collaborating with Tevfik R. Gozlukcu for such a deep and social art work.

girlsawthesea.net/

cda-projects.com/

Indoor Video Projection Mapping | Car Launch
NOTA BENE Visual – Range Rover – Evoque, Esma Sultan Shore / Istanbul
April the 22th, 2011

Client: Borusan Otomotiv

NOTA BENE, performed on the 22nd of April at Esma Sultan Shore for the Range Rover’s new car design ”Evoque” inspired by some of the most exciting cities in the world and Evoque said hello to Istanbul’s urban life. After a hard working process, it was a great indoor party in Esma Sultan.

borusanotomotiv.com

Project Management: Burak Gölge
Art Director: Ayşegül Kantarcı
A/V Performer: Tevfik R. Gözlükçü
VFX Creative Director: Murat Can Oğuz
Music&Sound Design: Studio Takt

Thanks to: Nurzat Gölge, Sera Dink, Tufan Dağtekin, Gölge Fotoğrafçılık, Visio-Vox, Barco, Christie.

Watchout Screens: 60x5m

Performance video is coming soon.