Computers, sculptures, dance gather at Odunpazarı Modern Museum

Eskişehir's Odunpazarı Modern Museum (OMM) hosts Karina Smigla-Bobinski's "Ada," an interactive kinetic sculpture and installation, welcoming the visitors to play with it. The opening of the exhibition and installation was presented with a performance by dancer Li Kehua on Feb. 15.
The aim of the performance, which attracted many art lovers both from Istanbul and the Central Anatolian province of Eskişehir is to show how an artwork is able to get in relation with the audience around it.
"Everyone can touch, feel and play with this installation," said Smigla Bobinski, noting that "Ada" is a huge, free-floating interactive drawing tool that unearths the hidden creative talents of machinery and is controlled by humans. "However, it is producing its own autonomous language in charcoal marks across the white walls, ceilings and floors of the gallery space," she added.
The artist's aim is to let the audience to perform with "Ada" to find their own way to deal with this artwork. "And what I also wanted to do is to let other artists, dancers, performers to find what they can do with Ada," she said.
Once, a musician was interested in Ada and told me that Ada's noise while it is moving is magnificent, so he recorded the noise.
Creating "Ada" was a process full of inspiration. Smigla-Bobinski was inspired by the first computer programmer in history, countess of Lovelace, Augusta Ada King. She was an English mathematician and writer and she is still known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
"So, we can say she was the first computer programmer," said Smigla-Bobinski, noting that she was a pioneer woman. So, the artist played with the name "Ada." Smigla-Bobinkski said Lovelace was the...