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Yusuf Yilmaz Economics/Psychology Photoshop Ceramics and Drawing


 * Augmented Reality Project Documentation**



My augmented reality project consisted of me augmented the viewer's culture. I used a sequence of pictures hung on a wall as both images to view and images to augment. The storyline included short descriptions of either the picture or something concerning the picture. The pseudo-objective of the augment was to make the viewers more "Turkish" through a series of augmented views of the pictures. Each separate augment contained its own voice-recording that gave a description of the image or a culturally relevant fact. The augmented experience included 7 pictures hung on a wall, 7 recordings, 1 video, and 13 total images.

This was the first picture that introduced the viewers to the augmented space. The image doesn't change, but a recording welcomes them. Here is a transcript. "Tonight, we will take a journey around Turkey and experience life as a turk. Hopefully by the end, you will become a little more Turkish. Proceed to the next photo." At which point the viewer moved to the next photo.

"Turkish people can't be amped up on coffee all the time. They like to sit back and enjoy the view with a nice cup of tea. Turkish people are the most tea drinkers in the world with an average of 7 cups per person per day. Second in line is England with 4 cups per day. Proceed to the next photo"



"Just as the Lincoln Memorial is great monument in the capital of America, the Selimiye Mosque was built as a unifying structure in Edirne, the former capital of the Ottoman Empire. The dome of the structure is a geometrical anomaly, as the width of the dome is too wide for the height, and should collapse on itself. The Selimiye Mosque was Mimar Sinan's final masterpiece, and is considered to be one of the highest achievements in Islamic Architecture. The dome actually survived artillery during the Bulgarian Siege of Edirne during the beginning of Wolrd War 1. Are you starting to feel Turkish? Proceed to the next photo."



"This is the Thracian University of Fine Arts in Edirne, on the European side in eastern Thrace. My cousin used to study here. Are you starting to feel your facial hair grow?"



"This here is the Hagia Sophia of Vize in Vize, Kirklareli, my father's hometown. Constructed in the early 6th century by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian, some say it was one of the few models for __the__ Hagia Sophia. Vize was the capital of the Thracian Empire until the Persians seized it. If you tap on the black box (the video), you will see a part of the Thracian Castle Walls located directly behind the Hagia Sophia of Vize on top of the highest hill in the area. Tap again to see it from another angle. I've spent a lot of my summers here, playing soccer on the streets with friends and cousins, running around, getting into trouble. I have actually climbed those walls. Proceed to the next photo"



"Pizza is not real food. A piece of dough with some sauce and cheese doesn't satisfy us Turks. Turkish cuisine is largely the heritage of Ottoman cuisine which can be described as a fusion and refinement of Greek, Central Asian, Caucasian, Sephardi Jewish, Middle Eastern, and Balkan cuisines. Double tap to take a selfies (picture of my best friends shows up). Nice looking pretty Turkish already. Proceed to the next photo"



"Hosgeldiniz! (Welcome!) Hosgeldiniz! (Welcome!) Buyrun, buyrun. (Come on in, come on in) You are all now officially Turkish. Welcome to our Embassy. We will use your selfies to print out your passports, which should arrive in the mail within 6-8 weeks. Görüs ü rüz! (See you later) Hosçakalin! (Goodbye)"

Then there was a video of me with a mustache (had to see it) in front of a Mosque on top of one of the seven hills of Istanbul.


 * The Poetics of Augmented Space**


 * What is Augmented Reality?**

The concept of Augmented reality could be well understood when compared to Virtual reality. Virtual reality consists of an individual working on a virtual simulation on a computer or tv screen, whereas augmented reality consists of the individual working on and interacting with actual things in actual space. Because of this, a user working on virtual reality has a virtual space that has nothing to do with his or her immediate surroundings; he could be sitting in a couch in his living room in actual space but could be swimming with British secret agent 007 under water in virtual space. On the other hand, when a user is dealing with augmented reality, his immediate surroundings are all a part of the augmented reality space and the augmented reality system adds information to or subtracts information from the real space. Augmented space lives within augmented reality, just how real space lives within our own real reality. As Manovich puts it, “augmented space is the physical space overlaid with dynamically changing information, this information is likely to be in multimedia form and is often localized for each user.” The overall experience the human subject has is most important, giving credit to sound, sight, touch, and maybe even smell during the whole experience. In modern day society, we experience augmented reality, or sorts of it, everyday when we go into the city, at shopping centers and entertainment areas, walls of buildings are covered with electronic screens and signs, showing advertisements for major companies and showing the latest movies at the cinema. Maybe that which is augmented is slowly becoming that which is real, and the term augmented space seems to have less and less significance, although it continues to expand into every corner of our lives. At the core of it, augmented reality is dynamically delivering dynamic data to, or extract data from, physical space. Some of the technological applications for augmented reality are video surveillance, cell spaces, and electronic displays. These make “physical space into a data space; extracting data from it (surveillance) or augmenting it with data (cell space, computer displays).” Furthermore, according to Manovich, it makes sense to connect the surveillance/monitoring of physical space and its dwellers, and the augmentation of this space with additional data. Manovich could be right from one perspective, but she isn’t right from my perspective. I am never a proponent of too much surveillance. Say the government could monitor everyone’s speed limits on any road. People would be getting tickets left and right. It might slow down drivers after some times, but what if the speed we drop down to isn’t the equilibrium speed needed on those roads, and there would be huge deadweight losses to the economy of driving.


 * Silent Cinema Project**

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 * Cinemagraph**



Kinetic Typography

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 * Colorization Project**

=**Casual Sunset in NY**=