Coincidence - Timeless Curiosities

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Coincidence
Timeless Curiosities
Toprak Fırat, Yasin Aribuga

Coincidence' is an urban synchronization project that harnesses publicly accessible traffic and tourist live camera feeds from Istanbul, transforming them into living collages with multiple scenes that continuously evolve in real time. The project aims to re-synchronize the neighborhoods of Istanbul under an ongoing cultural separation because of political and ideological tension among different demographics by merging seemingly unrelated urban structures from various districts into collages to create couplings for the audience to observe and witness to manifest a unison. Observing the collaboration of different pieces from various camera streams is a complex phenomenon; however, since the collage is live, there is a small probability for the audiences to observe subjectively higher-level harmonic instances that generate emotional seisms that perturbate the pitch of each piece toward unity.

Since the project utilizes real-time camera streams and is observed live by the audiences, the artwork is prone to potential delays and errors, and hence it is crucial to make every process as efficient and computationally safe as possible by considering it to be a safety-critical system. To safeguard the artwork against such failures, the entire process is segmented and encapsulated into individual scripts. While these scripts interact and collaborate with one another, they also operate using parallel processing, making isolated cores work together, resulting in software and hardware level collages, paralleling the goal of harmony and amplifying the effect of manifestation.

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