"The organization of 'Lives and Works in Istanbul' project is being handled by IBB Kültür A.S. This catalogue is published ... in 1000 copies for the 'Lives and Works in Istanbul' project activities ... "--Colophon.

"This publication is the result of three courses/seminars held at the Faculty of Arts and Design, Graduate Program in Visual Arts, Laboratorio di arti visive 1, Universit ̉luav di Venezia, Venice (Italy), Fall 2008, at the Visual Arts Program - Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge (USA), Spring 2009, and 'Lives and Works in Istanbul' in Istanbul (Turkey), Summer 2009."--p. 5.