MEKÂN • SPACE

30/03/2021

2020: Interactive Art Collection will be published on April 1st on the Oculus store!

This is a collection of 9 art pieces made only and specifically for 6DoF virtual reality. Each art piece has its own entity and a way of communicating with it's visitors. It takes one to two minutes to explore each of them.

Let's explain our roadmap until today.

We started organising and planning workshops on 2019. Gathered with our guest artists on 2020.
Our first (and sadly last) demo release at Sonar Istanbul festival in March was overshadowed by the pandemic.
We started working from home, fulfilled our long and painful optimisation duties all summer and jump started the publishing process on fall 2020.
Our technical tests took a loong time so here we, at the last day of March 2021, finding out that our beloved art collection will be published on April 1st ✌️🤓10AM Pacific Time or 20:00 UCT+3.

We are thrilled to share these news and hope you are intrigued by our work even a little bit.

18/02/2021

Our VR experience is on Steam as coming soon, waiting to be wishlisted by you! Our plan is to release it on the summer solstice 2021 🌝

04/01/2021

Akışta olmak ve oyun oynamak üzerine bir podcast yayını yaptık. Konu oyun oynamaktan, Zen'e, oradan beyaz minibüse, kurumsal dünyaya başkaldırıp kendi oyun alanımızı yaratmamıza kadar geldi. Nehir bizi sürükledikçe sürüklendik...

Peki nedir akışta olma? Dinlemek isterseniz, soruya yanıt arayışımız burada: https://anchor.fm/mekanspace/episodes/Akta-olmak-ve-oyun-oynamak-zerine-eogsl2

28/12/2020

We created an audio-visual except from Isaac Asimov's essay called "The Beginning and the End".

The visuals are audio reactive particle effects, created in Unreal Engine 4, with Niagara.

Voiceover was recorded beforehand by .ka using a smartphone. Voice recording equipment donations are welcome 🤓

28/12/2020

21/12/2020

About 3000 years ago humans looked at the sky.
They had a desire to understand, they knew they were connected.
With the sun, the earth, the moon and the whole universe….

Today, December 21st; is the Winter Solstice, the beginning of the deep winter.
It’s time to return to our inner worlds where we meet ourselves.
It is the time for facing our deepest fears, desires..
And it is the time for transformation with the help of those deepest, darkest feelings.

It is the time for reborn!
For us!
And for the nature!

As the days will be brighter with every sunrise, the transformation will happen.
Ancient Rituals are calling you!

But first you have to visit Stonehenge….

08/12/2020

Thank you , and . is soon on Steam!

22/11/2020

2020: Interactive Art Collection projemiz, TOGED tarafından düzenlenen Kristal Piksel Video Oyun Ödülleri'nde "En İyi VR Uygulaması" kategorisi ödülünü kazandı!! 🚀 Bizi bu ödüle layık gören değerli jüri ekibine ve 'e sonsuz teşekkürler!

Projenin gelişim sürecinde düzenlediğimiz atölye çalışmalarında bize destek olan Bilgi Üniversitesi Alt Lab. ve Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi VR1 Sanal Gerçeklik Laboratuvarı'na da teşekkür etmek üsteriz.

Ve en önemlisi misafir sanatçılarımız:



Projenin bir parçası olduğunuz ve emekleriniz için çok teşekkür ederiz!! Umarız yollarımız en kısa zamanda tekrar kesişir!

Mekan.Space ekibi adına .ka & &

31/10/2020

The wheel of life keeps turning. Today is the day summer truly ends. And now we are at the mercy of the winter. We wanted to celebrate this special day with a special animation from our upcoming virtual reality game/experience Ancient Rituals: Stonehenge.

Have a blessed Samhain, Halloween, Day of the Dead, and a nice full moon.

13/10/2020

We released our work 2020: Interactive Art Collection on itch.io.

If you have a PC based VR device, download and try it from https://mekanspace.itch.io/2020-interactive-art-collection

12/10/2020

Today we released 2020: Interactive Art Collection on itch.io. It's free to download at the moment.

https://mekanspace.itch.io/2020-interactive-art-collection

Let us question the future of art. What is the main purpose of it? What is the purpose of art in a museum in the 2020s?

How is art adapting to the changes of the digital age? 2020: Interactive Art Collection is a virtual art collection that aims to tackle these questions. For us, an art collection is a space that brings curated artwork and its viewer together. As Duchamp said in 1957, “All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world(...)”. Art begins with the artist, yet it is not complete until it meets its spectator. Art should be as virtual as it is physical; and interactive as possible.

2020: Interactive Art Collection is created by the joint participation of game developers, visual communication designers, architects and 3D artists under the roof of Mekan • Space. Interactive artworks are produced by examining Dada, Futurism, Pop Art and Readymade artworks and using 3D archives.

2020: Interactive Virtual Art Collection:

Team:
Mekan Space

Concept and Development:
İpek Kuran Yıldırım
Zeynep Burcu Kaya Alpan

Guest Artists:
Memory Invaders: Ege Özyuvacı Ege Özyuvacı
Disintegrate: Esen Küçüktütüncü Esen K.tütüncü
OUTCRY: Elif Cerrahoğlu, Pınar Horozoğlu Elif Cerrahoglu
Arzen: Yusuf Ulufer Blender Trace
Happiness: Luis Miguel Alves Fernandes
Can't You See?: Naci Hakan Zehirlioğlu
Skin: Melike Tarakçı
Volumetric Song: Boğaçhan Bakır, Gözde Akyol
Price Tag: İpek Kuran Yıldırım, Rıza Yıldırım, Zeynep Burcu Kaya Alpan Ipek Kuran Rıza Yıldırım Zeynep Burcu Kaya

Artworks were created partly at 2020: Interactive Art Workshops at VR1- Bahçeşehir University and Alt lab- Bilgi University.

2020 was presented at Sonar Istanbul 2020 Sónar Istanbul.

Thank you:
Ahmetcan Alpan Ahmetcan Alpan
Özde Karadağ Özde Karadağ
Kutsal Mustafaoğlu Kutsal Mustafaoğlu
İlbey Çağan
Harid Taşkın Harid Taşkın

A new way to "consume" art.