Future Tellers’18

Annually organized by Zorlu Holding's Digilogue, Digilogue Summit - Future Tellers’18, which focuses on the open and closed uses of information, creativity, algorithms and data, is again at Zorlu PSM.

Future Tellers’18 sees its main theme, “Open Source Movement “, as a social tool which defines us as a global society, makes us who we are, and tries to solve the process of what phenomenons and situations are turning into. The summit, that will bring together people who produce, teach and research on the topics such as “New Learning” “Profiling in the Data Age”, “Impact of Algorithms on Society and Culture”, “Legal Rights, Freedom and Privacy of the User in Digital Spaces”, it allows for new discoveries in the focus of different disciplines.

Digilogue Summit will include names like; science and software programmer Gene Kogan, who sees programming as an art form, artist Lauren McCarthy, who examines the social impact of technology in her works, Levent Erdem, the president of Next Academy in Bilkent University, who examines the effect of technology on people’s behaviour and new media artist Refik Anadol, who explores digital and physical spaces with the harmony he created between architecture and media arts and is known for his works that push the limits of using data. The panel, presentations and speeches will be held on October 19 and the works by the pioneers of the field on “Open Source Movement” will be on display. On October 20, the summit will offer the guests a chance to experience the physical illustration of the works with performances and workshops.

Organized for the third time, Digilogue Summit: Future Tellers ' 18, brings together the pioneers of the field. The summit, with its two-day program which includes panels and workshops that examine the future of art and technology, brings together people who create, teach and research on the field.

The panel program of Digilogue Summit – Future Tellers’18, which was created within the framework of “open-source stream” -a combination of a new understanding of humanity required by the future from the present and a collective approach-, started with Refik Anadol, Kyle McCarthy, Gene Kogan, Lauren McCarthy and Zach Lieberman’s presentations about open source movement and new learning techniques on Friday, October 19. One of the speakers, Zach Lieberman is summarizing the most basic need of the new world; “There is always a need for new ideas in the world, new formations and institutes in the creative field. Remember that there is always a great space for creative ideas all over the globe”. In the session, the speakers talked about the schematic and the artistic aspect of open-source flow.

The summit, which brings together people who create, teach and research on the field with its two-day program that examines the future of art and technology, is presenting its third edition. Digilogue Summit-Future Tellers’18, which added panels as well as workshops to this years program, completed its daytime events in 24 hours with a “Digilogue All Day All Night” performance series. Its first day, that is full of panels that offer alternative perceptions on topics such as “New Learning” “Profiling in the Data Age”, “Impact of Algorithms on Society and Culture”, “Legal Rights, Freedom and Privacy of the User in Digital Spaces” and “The Future Role of Education” was followed by its second day, in which the pioneers of the open-source movement created basic training programs in their own fields. The 48-hour program once again united the representatives of the creative industries within the scope of Digilogue.

Today, centralized, hierarchical and proprietary attitudes are evolving into a transparent, conscious sharing economy and new systems are being designed. The open-source movement emphasizes the importance of collective contribution by creating a new understanding of humanity that the future demands from today.