The planet of birds, and time as an entity = Kuşlar gezegeni, ve bir varlık olarak zaman

This supplementary text investigates the exhibition, ["The Planet od Birds, and times as an entity"] at Fass Art Gallery, Sabancı University between 2-15 June 2005 and the Works within as the process of this exhibition. The text is considired as a part of this exhibition. The first part introduces the process of the transition from the works with moving images to the painted objects. Later, the text investigates the transitory phases of time which play the order among the painted objects, so as to focus on the connections of the diverse mediums, offered by these phases. The exhibition concentrates on the concept time as observed within the text as the crucial element which resolves the representation of diversity, problematic as an aesthetical statemen

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A Prototype Risk Management Decision Support Tool for Construction Projects

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