KONTACT
KONTACT — from archive to experience. Built from Garanti BBVA's 80-year archive, the work explores ways of perceiving archival data and engaging with it in new forms.
KONTACT — from archive to experience. Built from Garanti BBVA's 80-year archive, the work explores ways of perceiving archival data and engaging with it in new forms.
DESCRIPTION
The work approaches the archive not as the chronological record of a company, but as a record of its shifting forms of contact with society and culture over the years. Visual, textual, and auditory data from Garanti BBVA's 80-year archive were processed through artificial intelligence-based analytical methods, then transformed into a multilayered memory environment.
Thousands of archival materials were reclassified through semantic relationships, textual content, color, composition, and motion data, and reconstructed as a semantic map — forming the basis of a spatial experience structured across four screen surfaces around the concepts of memory, analysis, narrative, contact, and transformation.
The AI-driven installation offers a sensory experience interweaving data visualization, motion graphics, and spatial sound design. The work explores ways of perceiving archival data and engaging with it in new forms.
The work approaches the archive not as the chronological record of a company, but as a record of its shifting forms of contact with society and culture over the years. Visual, textual, and auditory data from Garanti BBVA's 80-year archive were processed through artificial intelligence-based analytical methods, then transformed into a multilayered memory environment.
Thousands of archival materials were reclassified through semantic relationships, textual content, color, composition, and motion data, and reconstructed as a semantic map — forming the basis of a spatial experience structured across four screen surfaces around the concepts of memory, analysis, narrative, contact, and transformation.
The AI-driven installation offers a sensory experience interweaving data visualization, motion graphics, and spatial sound design. The work explores ways of perceiving archival data and engaging with it in new forms.
INFO
ROLE: Direction & Design
TYPE: Four-channel video and sound installation
DATE: 2026, Jun 03 - Sept 30
DURATION: 5'36"
LOCATION: Salt Galata | Istanbul, TURKEY
COMMISSIONED BY: SALT, Garanti BBVA
ROLE: Direction & Design
TYPE: Four-channel video and sound installation
DATE: 2026, Jun 03 - Sept 30
DURATION: 5'36"
LOCATION: Salt Galata | Istanbul, TURKEY
COMMISSIONED BY: SALT, Garanti BBVA
CREDITS
DIRECTION, DESIGN: NOHLAB
CREATIVE CODING & VISUAL PRODUCTION: Çağatay Güçlü
MUSIC & SOUND DESIGN: Gökalp Kanatsız
ARCHIVAL RESEARCH & DATA SUPPORT: SALT
EXHIBITION DESIGN: PATTU
PHOTOGRAPHY: Flufoto
SPECIAL THANKS: Deniz Ova, Canan Erbil, Eray Özcan, Derya Açar Ergüç, Sinem Ayşe Gülmez Saydam, Mehtap Kuru, Lorans Tanatar Baruh, İzzeddin Çalışlar, Özde Karadağ, Pınar Akkurt
The work approaches the archive not as the chronological record of a company, but as a record of its shifting forms of contact with society and culture over the years.
The work approaches the archive not as the chronological record of a company, but as a record of its shifting forms of contact with society and culture over the years.
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Visual, textual, and auditory data from Garanti BBVA's 80-year archive were processed through artificial intelligence-based analytical methods, then transformed into a multilayered memory environment.
Visual, textual, and auditory data from Garanti BBVA's 80-year archive were processed through artificial intelligence-based analytical methods, then transformed into a multilayered memory environment.
SLIDE →
Thousands of archival materials were reclassified through semantic relationships, textual content, color, composition, and motion data, and reconstructed as a semantic map.
Thousands of archival materials were reclassified through semantic relationships, textual content, color, composition, and motion data, and reconstructed as a semantic map.
SLIDE →
This map forms the basis of a spatial experience structured across four screen surfaces around the concepts of memory, analysis, narrative, contact, and transformation.
This map forms the basis of a spatial experience structured across four screen surfaces around the concepts of memory, analysis, narrative, contact, and transformation.
