Sevgi Tan

textiel , Objecten , Netwerk , Media , internationaal , interactief , Grafiek , Experimenteel , Ecologie , DIY , Digitale technologie , Digitaal , Diaspora , Design , Dekolonisatie , cross-over , Community , Artistiek onderzoek , Archieven

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Sevgi is a maker and designer rooted in Rotterdam and Adana. In her works she tries to think about death as a mode of value, inheritances, obsoletion of digital media/um/s, and translators power of strange kinships that stem in workshop settings. She is also a regular workshop host at Buitenplaats Brienenoord as a part of Fiber Space collective.

**Thing Theories** - Thing Theories was a 3 day publishing intensive I took part in. I thought through one of the arms of my Resurrection practice here, the Oric-1. The intensive was one of archeology of objects and every participant brought their own objects to dig through. I chose one of the media's I have been trying to resurrect; Oric-1. I read extensively about the history of it and made a spread of my findings. Together with the participants we made a collaborative publication featuring all of our objects and research we had about them.

**My old iMac G3** - For this installation I used an iMac G3 I already owned and never used. I refurbished the iMac and configured the system to be able to create a space for re-animation of the notions that used to come with having a computer in the house, on the desk, where the internet is a cable and the notions of digital realms are more tangible than not. I made my websites compatible with the Internet Explorer 5.0 that runs on these iMacs and uploaded programs and softwares our ancestor-designers used to use in order to make graphics. I was inspired by one of the eulogies written by a participant at the Internet Archive workshop. Walter Murch proudly missed an old friend of a software called MindWrite which was still available to him on an old Mac computer at his daughters home. I used this miraculous reanimation as my basis and tried my hardest to install MindWrite onto this computer to activate resurrection to the point where the eulogies and technologies can meet again.

**Resurrection!** - Resurrection is a method of re-animation, care and maintenance of technologies and digital devices, medias, mediums, cultures that are of the past. Inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, resurrection zooms in the moments of disrepair and neglect that create abandon, and inevitably monsters out of creatures, based in practicing media-archaeology. In this particular workshop, we come together to discuss death and how do we define it in technologies that came to end that we miss. After a presentation of the project and discussion about it, we list devices of the past we consider dead. Then in groups we write and plan performative eulogies for them, researching what happened after the birth and life of the devices, adding these dates in our eulogies. This way we open a conversation about the deprecation of tech and the politics that end them. After all performances, we reflect back on what stuck with us from each of our moments of commemoration.

**Party Line** - This is a project of repair and connection, basically a polished middle school science experiment about deprecated networks and the cultures that surround them. The project consists of 3 landline telephones (all T65 models) that I connected with a simple Plain Old Telephone System (POTS) understanding of a 'party line'. In order to play and participate in it, each telephone requires a person that picks up the receiver. The project aims to resurrect the gossip and party-line-protocol culture that used to come with basic telephony networks. Using telephones that used to be a center piece in Dutch homes, I aim to ignite curiosity of these devices and entice people to pick up the phone if they see a receiver.

**Fortune Teller (Apollo's Mouthpiece)** - This is a cyber-deck project that runs a fortune-telling python script that I wrote myself. The fortune-teller and the participant sit together and fortune teller operates the script. Through questions about habits of care, the script tells the participant what their occupation for the future will be. What is the care-taker role you will be assigned according to your capacity of care and how will your schedule look like? The fortune comes in a printed form along with an RFID chip installed card that upon reading reveals the job that you're assigned and a diary to keep track of your progress. This project is inspired by the capitalist fear mongering of AI companies where their advertisements suggest an occupation might be replaced by the automated systems they sell to a crowd of software professionals living in a delusion bubble in San Fransisco, USA.

⚡️⚡️RESURRECTION⚡️⚡️

Datum: 10-11-2025 t/m 10-11-2025

Locatie: Piet Zwart Institute

In samenwerking met: Experimental Publishing Masters

RESURRECTION is a two part workshop series where participants are asked to list what they consider dead in technologic/digital realms. Together we think about what we consider dead, dying or obsolete. After a discussion we break into groups of two and prepare eulogies/ceremonies for those we lost. At the end of the workshop everyone performs their eulogy and we discuss what we would like to being back from this old dear friend of ours, what did we lose and do we want it back?

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