İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Kurumsal Akademik Arşivi
Güncel Gönderiler
Representation of stress on the contemporary body
(İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, Lisansüstü Eğitim Enstitüsü, 2005) Ergun, Köken
What emerges through the interaction between the individual and the socio-technologically enhanced society can be seen as the “contemporary body”. This body is perpetually being shaped by its transaction with society, triggered by various stimuli determined by a culture of technology and consumption. Computers and other digital devices used in making new media arts are in the very center of this stress-culture while other media are at its periphery. This indeed gives computer based new media arts vast possibilities in the artistic expression of the contemporary body and stress. While initiating our primary discussions on this topic we have set off by arguing that art forms framed within “new media arts” have the potential of representing the confrontation of our bodies with the socio-technical changes that have been apparent after the turn of the century and reached its zenith during the peak of consumer culture in the 80’s.
During the course of research and composition of the dissertation however, fi eld studies were made in various centers of new media culture and extensive research carried out in New York. As a result of these lived experiences and close examination of the international art world we have gradually came to agree that new media arts is still remotely interested in the social concerns eff ecting our bodies. But the crucial aspect of this survey has been to examine the resistance of the individual to being leveled down and worn out by social-technological mechanisms. In this aspect media like video and performance which we refer to as “elder new media arts” stand out as more elaborate ways to represent stress on the contemporary body, which is a social phenomenon. The artists who work with these media are more articulate about the positioning of their own body inside the stressful world. Computer based new media artists on the other hand tend to focus on the possibilities of extending human being’s technological and digital abilities, and elaborate on the utopia of cyber reality, fi nally promoting virtual bodies. In other words they choose to ignore rather than deal with to the socio-technological changes in human life, and transcend into the dream world of cyber culture.
We shall see in due course that computer based new media arts does not use to full capacity the potentials off ered by new media. Therefore, to support our argument we have aimed to investigate how technology is used in all of the above-mentioned media: either as a tool or as a purpose. It will be seen that video and performance art use technology as a tool while computer based new media arts use it as a purpose. However, the world we live in is technologically enhanced but still social; it uses digital technology as a tool for development and well being, but it does not let cyber culture prevail over the current social and physical culture. Likewise we cannot yet expect the dominance of digital solutions over social ones. Therefore, a social phenomenon like stress is best examined by artists who are socially aware and use those mediums, which can position a critical approach to stress.
Şiddetsiz birey, aile ve toplum: Ruh sağlığı alanında şiddetsizlik odaklı yaklaşım ve uygulamalar
(İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2024) Çavdar, Alev; Üstünel, Anıl Özge; Maçkalı, Zeynep
Şiddetin küresel ölçekte ve Türkiye’de yaygın bir insan hakkı ihlali olduğu bir çağda, ruh sağlığı çalışanları bu şiddetin bireylerin, ailelerin ve toplumun üzerindeki derin etkisiyle sıkça karşılaşıyor. Bu bağlamda bu kitap, ruh sağlığı çalışanları olarak şiddetle mücadele ve şiddetsizliğin tesisi konusunda birlikte düşünme ihtiyacının bir ürünü olarak ortaya çıktı.
Kitabın birinci kısmı, psikoterapi bağlamında şiddeti ele alıyor. Seans odalarında şiddeti ve şiddetsizliği psikodinamik, zihinselleştirme odaklı ve gelişimsel perspektiflerden inceliyor. Ayrıca, feminist ve kesişimsellik odaklı yaklaşımların yanı sıra, psikoterapistlerin yasal sorumluluklarına dair bilgiler de içeriyor. Kitabın ikinci kısmı, şiddeti önleme konusunda yol gösterici uygulama örnekleri sunuyor. Ebeveyn eğitimi ve destek çalışmaları, genç yetişkinlere yönelik eğitim programları, şiddetsizliğin inşasında yaratıcı yaklaşımlar ve kurumlarda şiddetsizlik kültürü gibi konuları ele alıyor.
Bu kitabın ruh sağlığı alanlarında çalışanlar olarak hepimize hem yol gösterici bir başlangıç noktası olmasını hem de bu yolda yalnız olmadığımızı hissettirmesini umuyoruz.
Diffeomorphism invariance breaking in gravity and cosmological evolution
(Springer, 2025) Aydemir, Ufuk; Elbistan, Mahmut
Diffeomorphism invariance breaking has been investigated in the literature in several contexts, including emergent General Relativity (GR). If GR emerges from an underlying theory without diffeomorphism invariance, there may be small violations of this symmetry at low energies. Since such small violations should not cause instabilities in cosmological evolution, it is a suitable framework for examining such symmetry-breaking effects. In this paper, the cosmological evolution with broken diffeomorphism invariance is investigated in the (modified) FLRW spacetime in the effective theory framework. The GR Lagrangian is augmented with all diffeomorphism-breaking but Lorentz-invariant terms in the leading order, namely, those involving two derivatives. The magnitudes of (minor) violations are kept general modulo the conditions arising in the linearized theory. The analytic solutions of the scale factor in the full non-linear theory for the single-component universes are attempted; the radiation and vacuum solutions are found analytically, whereas the matter solution is worked out numerically since an analytic solution does not exist in the required form. It is observed that the solutions smoothly connect to those of GR in the limit of vanishing symmetry-breaking. The more realistic, two-component, and three-component universes are numerically studied, and no signs of singular behavior are observed: minor diffeomorphism-violating modifications to GR at the level of two derivatives do not cause instabilities in the basic cosmological evolution.
Trajectory Generation and Control for UAVs Using Quintic PH Curves and Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs)
(Ieee, 2025) Ciftci, Fatma Senguler; Oniz, Yesim
This paper presents a novel methodology that utilizes quintic Pythagorean-Hodograph (PH) curves for trajectory generation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) for tracking problem. PH curves enable exact arc length computation and ensures smooth transitions in positions, velocities, and accelerations throughout the trajectory. The UAV's movements along the generated trajectory are regulated by KAN-based controllers. A separate controller is designed for each axis. We validate through simulations, indicating that a 40% improvement in tracking accuracy can be attained with KANs over conventional multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) under wind disturbances.
Karachay-Balkar converb clauses
(Harrassowitz Verlag, 2024) Gurer, Asli
This study investigates the internal and external syntax of {-(I)b) converb clauses in the Karachay-Balkar variety spoken in Konya, Turkey. It proposes that (i) converb clauses with {-(1)b) do not form a homogeneous group, (ii) the different and same-subject {-(I)b) con- verbs are not reduced and can include CP-level projections, (iii) the external syntax of the converbs differs, and converbs can attach at the CP, TP, or VP level, (iv) verb forms in {-(I)b), as predicates in finite clauses, express postterminality, and resultatives.
