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Contemporary art museum in Istanbul, Turkey
Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum
(iS.CaM) is an independent, artist run museum established in
Istanbul
in 1997. It is the oldest
contemporary art
museum in Istanbul. iS.CaM an alternative art organisation that develops, evolves and collaborates with other institutions and networks. One of its tenets is that art and education should go together hand in hand. In terms of the Internet it is pioneering, including the establishment of the
Web Biennial
,
[1]
a Biennial entirely on the Internet. The founder is conceptual artist
Genco Gulan
and the chief curator is Dr.
Marcus Graf
. It collaborates with
Galata
Perform in many projects.
Genco Gulan established “Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum”
[2]
as an art project
[3]
in 1997. The project has evolved for many years. Recently he manifested in Berlin that he is the “
Erste Lebende Kunst Museum
” (the first living art museum) after
Timm Ulrichs
[
de
]
.
[4]
Web Biennial
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The
Web Biennial
, abbreviated as "WB", is an online
Art exhibition
of
[5]
net-art and web-art
. It is organised by Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, iS.CaM, and founded by
Genco Gulan
right at the turn of the century. As a web Formation Web Biennial is as old as
Wikipedia
. Every two years WB takes the form of virtual 'pavilions', presenting a large amount of contemporary Internet art, linking them in one way or another. Each participating website or project is represented by special tag in the title tag and or a link on the Web Biennial website. Though an online project, Web Biennial is sometimes compared to other Biennials. See:
In every area of life, a new generation of young Turks is reaching outward. This year's Art Biennale will draw artists from Bosnia, Iran, Egypt, Greece and Lebanon?a most uncommon mix?while the Web Biennale will feature work by
Armenians, Ukrainians, Serbs, Macedonians and Romanians. "Istanbul these days has as much dynamism as New York," says Genco Gulan, director of the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum. If anything, he enthuses, "Istanbul is more alive. There's more interest here in doing something new.
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