Istanbul: A brief seismic history

 

 

A rather fanciful European engraving of an earthquake that took place in İstanbul on May 10th 1556. For an enlarged view of the image, click on it. People are running about in terror and the sea is surging violently. Notice the comet at the top center and the impending or recent eclipse of the sun or moon at the right. Right of center is a large domed structure that may be intended to represent Hagia Sophia.

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Kim de Groot is a design researcher with an MA in new media. She is part of the lectoraat Communication in a digital age and teaches new media at the Willem de Kooning academy Kim’s research deals with the inverted relation between image and reality. Moving from representation to the performative, from the visual to the infrastructural, images are no longer created to represent a reality but to manage it. Kim examines images as informational objects and traces the relations between image, event and media.

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