http://complex.city.online.fr Ideas & Works by Tolga Taluy Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:43:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [gv data="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-323461285787130432&hl=fr"][/gv] C'est (pas) normal, video, 3'00", 2004. A video made some years ago with one of my best friends, Séverine Gorlier. She's covering an old Brigitte Fontaine's song a capella. Actually, this can be considered as an improvisation rather than a simple cover because the lyrics are simply based on Brigitte Fontaine's song. I ... http://complex.city.online.fr/?p=10 [gv data="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-8565371017804006533&hl=fr"][/gv] B Day, video, 6'55", 2005. The relationship between music and power always interested me. I'm a big fan of the Downhill Battle, Evolution Control Committee, Illegal Art and by extension, the Yes Men and ®TM just to mention a few. I was doing some researches concerning the music industry and the copyright ... http://complex.city.online.fr/?p=9 I WON'T BE A PART OF HISTORY, self-adhesive letters, variable size, 2007 After a long period of silence, I decided to make a new post and show one of my latest works. Last summer, we were talking with a friend who graduated from art school and she suddenly said that we were ... http://complex.city.online.fr/?p=8 [audio:http://complex.city.online.fr/content/media/Frances.mp3] Frances Farmer's Revenge, audio track, CD-R, 7'30", 2006. It's been fifteen years since "Nevermind" was released and still, it continues to reign over the majority of the turntables of the Grunge generation, as well as contemporary teenagers, even if they were born too late to catch the phenomenon while it was ... http://complex.city.online.fr/?p=7 Icon, 400 Black & White Digital prints, 6 x 4 meters, 2005. This is a first part of an eventual installation series in which I wanted to isolate images from their original context and reconsider their meanings. When I was working on this installation, I was very much interested about the hierarchical ... http://complex.city.online.fr/?p=5 Planes, pattern, 2006. This is the pattern I made for Naked & Angry. Naked & Angry exists to create high quality products from patterns submitted and chosen by the brand’s audience. If my pattern gets enough votes, it will be massively manufactured into a high-quality-mind-blowing product, such as a shirt, a tie, or ... http://complex.city.online.fr/?p=6 doomsday.argument, net-art, 2006. doomsday.argument is an online countdown based on a probabilistic argument that claims to predict the future lifetime of the human race given only an estimate of the total number of humans born so far. The current doomsday argument's conclusion is a 95% chance of extinction within 9120 years. It gives ... http://complex.city.online.fr/?p=4 take.time.to.think, net-art, 2005. take.time.to.think is a project I did in 2005 while I was an intern at TBWA\Brussels. I was very often asked to do research on the Internet during my internship. I was in front of a computer screen, constantly looking for various information. I remarked that when you work full time in ... http://complex.city.online.fr/?p=1