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Selçuk Artut (b.1976). His artistic research and production focus on theoretical and practical dimensions of human-technology relations. He holds a Ph.D. in Media and Communications from European Graduate School, Switzerland. Currently, Artut is working as an Assoc. Prof. for the Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design Program at Sabanci University, Istanbul where he mainly teaches Sound and Interaction Courses. He has been releasing several albums as a member of a Post-Rock Avangard music band Replikas since 1998. In 2016, he co-founded the audio-visual performance group RAW together with Alp Tuğan, which produces works through creative coding and live-coding techniques.
I am a lens-based artist living in Istanbul and Paris.
1981- Mardin / Kızıltepe 2007- Faculty of Fine Arts /Ceramic. Mehmet Ali Boran performs an artistic production with materials and media such as video, photography, installation, performance and video-novel. In his first-period works displaying narratives on the crowds, the artist presented the physical/psychological reflexes of masses across the government with an effective visual way as part of the issues like identity and belonging. Later on his artistic production, Boran focused on the problems of militarism, immigration and memory. He began to explore the ecological narratives and he examined closely the positioning format of the new era security system in the place where he lived. In his works Mehmet Ali Boran criticized the discourse of security community created by the control and surveillance mechanisms of the government on territarial borders, city/country settlements and topographic areas. He proposes the whole perusal of the existent instead of the human-oriented perusal of the place, history and memory. Also he develops a jeontological point of view to animal, watercourse, soil, rock, air, plants and cultural relics. Moreover Boran offers a different perspective agaist the people who bring themselves into existence taking inspiration from geographical sciences. In his works with a metonomic perspective, he shows that what happens in local areas is not independent from the gobal dimensions. He attended several exhibitions both national and international. His works were exhibited in London, Helsinki, Paris, Stuttgart and Venice. Also the artist is one of the founders of Mişar Art Contemporaryaet talks.
Vahap Avşar (b. 1965, Malatya) studied at Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Izmir from 1985 to 1989. He earned a Masters in Fine Arts in 1992 and completed the coursework for a Ph.D in art theory at Bilkent University, Ankara in 1995. Avşar’s solo exhibitions include “Interventions”, Istanbul (2022), “I hate America, America hates me”, Osmos, New York (2020) and Mebusan #25, Istanbul (2019), “Lost Shadows”, SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul (2015), “Black Album”, Rampa, Istanbul (2013), “iBerlin”, TANAS, Berlin (2012), “Noneisafe”, Charles Bank Gallery, New York (2011) and “Vahap Avşar”, Rampa, Istanbul (2010), “Come Who Ever You Are”, W139, Amsterdam (1993) and “Myths”, Galeri Zon, Ankara (1991). His group exhibitions, among others, include “Returning to Nest” OMM, Eskisehir, (2020), “Istanbul: Passion, Joy, Fury”, MAXXI Museo Nazionale Delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome, “Too Early, Too Late: Middle East and Modernity”, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna (2015), “Artists’ Film International”, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul (2015), “Zwölf im Zwölften”, TANAS, Berlin (2011), Second Exhibition, ARTER, Istanbul (2010), “I’m Too Sad to Kill You!”, Proje 4L, Istanbul (2003), 5th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (1997) and “Gar”, TCDD Art Gallery and Ankara Central Train Station, Ankara (1995), 5th Havana Biennial Art Exhibition (1994), “Elli Numara – Anı Bellek II”, Akaretler 50, Istanbul (1993) and “An Another Art: For the Memory of Joseph Beuys”, German Cultural Centre, İzmir (1986). Avşar lives and works in New York and Istanbul.
Balkan Karisman uses different mediums together; he asks hypothetical questions about analog versus virtual, past versus future, real versus surreal perception. He sees every accessible technology as a natural instrument and at the same time a source of inspiration.
The artist goes beyond the medium of photography, with which she uses images to freeze movement, and focuses on the continuity of the image through video. She includes other elements such as optics and light in addition to the process of recording the photograph and combines the image with an illusion experienced in another dimension.
Mert Öztekin (Ankara, 1983), had his recent solo projects exhibited in Öktem Aykut, Eldem Sanat Alanı (Eskişehir) and Kova (Ankara). Since 2009, his works have been shown in group exhibitions at Southard Reid (Condo London), NON, Hafriyat, Tasarım Bakkalı, ArtSümer, Halka and Depo. He also took part in art exhibitions and events with HaZaVuZu: İstanbul. Passion, Joy, Fury MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome (2015); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2013); For Whom is it Too Late Today? – Between Stamp and Mars, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou (2009); Baltic Triennial, Vilnius (2009); Biennale de Lyon (2009); Lokaal01, Antwerp (2008); Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Rotterdam (2008); Kaserne, Basel (2008); Istanbul Biennial (2007).
I aim at presenting new contextual relations and meanings among forms by reintroducing particular shapes in architecture. Therefore, I suggest reconsidering the boundaries of the language in the context of mediums and intercultural means.
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