In this year's program of Sónar+D Istanbul; While welcoming the participants with panels, talks, workshops, masterclasses, marketplace, AV screenings, the projects selected by open call were also exhibited at Sónar Screen and marketplace, where brand new and seminal ideas were met with great interest from art lovers this year as every year.
At Sónar Istanbul, which was held for the 7th time this year at Zorlu PSM with the contribution of 100% Music, the creativity and technology platform Sónar+D Istanbul, organized under the sponsorship of BtcTurk, will introduce artificial intelligence and Web 3.0, which are two more and more intriguing topics this year. By focusing on both themes, panels, masterclasses, VR installations and live performances combining music and technology, presenting multidimensional perspectives to its participants, took them on brand new journeys again.
A mind-blowing debut with Liam Young
Australian-born American director Liam Young, who manages the journey between design and editing and makes a name for himself with his films that provide extraordinary visuals by directing both local and global scale technological developments, gave an impressive speech about the bond between art and technology and masterfully handled Planet City installation Sónar+D It impressed the audience in Istanbul quite a lot. In the two masterclasses in the program, the speakers of the panel DJ and writer Elijah and Andreas Refsgaard, who examined the creative bond between art and technology, both the speeches that offer different perspectives and the visual world they created, and explored the participants towards brand new thoughts.
AI Invented, Bravery Broken?
Levent Erden, Lalin Akalan, Erdil Yaşaroğlu, and Başar Başaran, “AI Invented, Is Virtue Broken?” In the panel titled, ChatGPT, which reached millions of users in a short time, and artificial intelligence, discussed in depth where art production will evolve. While considering the possibility that artificial intelligence and art production, where the positive and negative aspects are discussed, can create more production space for the artist, the uniqueness of the artist and the limitation between machine creativity and human creativity were discussed in all aspects. Levent Erden, who compared many different artificial intelligence stories; Lalin Akalan, Erdil Yaşaroğlu and Başar Başaran made both useful and entertaining comments that these productions have not yet come out of a clear creativity.
Contemporary Art in Artificial Intelligence
In the panel themed “The State of The AI Art”, which focuses on the relationship of artificial intelligence with musical and audiovisual (audio-visual) projects and its impact on society-culture; Discovering the creative link between art and technology through coding, algorithms and artificial intelligence with his interactive and open-minded approaches to creative coding and machine learning, Andreas Refsgaard is the curator and moderator of many conferences, festivals, radio programs and podcasts, including Sónar+D. and presenter Antònia Folguera; Sofia Crespo, who creates her works inspired by biology and organic life and is famous for her works questioning the artistic potential of artificial intelligence; Leading names such as Tupac Martir, the founder and creative director of Satore Studio, and the 'Light Wizard' Tupac Martir, who touched the scenes of many world-renowned artists and fashion designers such as Béyonce with his visual effects and lighting designs, talked about the impact of artificial intelligence on art and technology, and talked about what will happen to us in the future. They shared their predictions about what to expect.
Web 3.0: Where are we?
“Web 3.0: Where are we?”, focusing on the intersections of emerging technologies with creative processes, Web 3.0, where we are after the rising wave of NFT, and DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations). (Web 3.0: Where Are We), DJ and writer Elijah, who built a career through social media while blending sustainable technologies with music, explored the potential of music and technology in Web 3.0 in the areas of DAOs and community building, and Friends with Benefits and Successful names such as Kaitlyn Davies, one of the founding members of Refraction DAOs, and Katherine Bassett, founding member of Water & Music, who researched the connection and interaction between Web 3.0, artificial intelligence and Metaverse concepts with music, took part in the program as speakers.
Brand New Skills: Workshops…
Within the scope of Sónar+D Istanbul program, “Music Production with Live Coding Method Using SonicPi” with Berke Baramuk, “Creative Audio-Visual Coding Workshop with P5JS Library” and “Creating Sound-Reactive Visuals with Touchdesigner” workshops with Far, which will be held by Algorave Istanbul. On the other hand, the participants had the opportunity to try the production stages and processes of audio-visual works with code-based systems.
Sónar+D Istanbul 2023, where the marketplace with experience spaces, VR designs, various installations and games attracts great attention, will also host the most current developments in technology and music, especially in digital art, with panels, talks, workshops, masterclasses and events this year. By transmitting it to its participants through AV screenings, it once again offered unique and eye-opening experiences.
Zorlu Performing Arts Center
Zorlu Performing Arts Center celebrates its 10th season! By creating inspiring art experiences and hosting world art for 10 years, she has been inspiring more people to discover and transform with art! It creates a free, creative, transforming and developing stage for art lovers and new art audiences through national and international cultural collaborations and collaborations with distinguished institutions and artists. It offers creative opportunities to the artists of today and tomorrow to develop their imaginations and supports them! Celebrating all the artists it has hosted in its 10-year history with the motto “We Love Them” in its tenth season, Zorlu PSM continues to be renewed and offer surprises with its approximately 150 employees who are devoted to art. Hosting more than 5 million art lovers to date, Zorlu PSM carries out approximately 15 percent of the cultural and artistic activities in Turkey. Zorlu PSM, which brings together quality cultural and art events ranging from world-famous musicals to world-class musicians, from big production theaters to one-man performances, and equipped with world-class equipment, acts with the vision of becoming a global stage. With its innovative, dynamic, up-to-date, reliable, entertaining, polyphonic, inclusive, assertive and extraordinary structure, it goes beyond being a performing arts center and contributes to the development of the culture and arts sector. Zorlu PSM offers a unique culture and art experience in 7 different venues.