Burak Arıkan
| Burak Arikan | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 28, 1976 Istanbul, Turkey |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Education | MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. |
| Known for | Conceptual art, Software art, Net Art, Generative Art, Digital Art, Data Activism |
Burak Arıkan (born in 1976, Istanbul) is a Turkish contemporary artist working with complex networks raising questions about economic, political, societal issues. His work is research-based, thus generates data and inputs into custom abstract machinery, builds network maps, results in performances, and procreates predictions to make inherent power relationships visible, thus discussable.
Arikan is the founder of Graph Commons, a platform for mapping, analyzing, and publishing data-networks. Graph Commons workshop for artists[1], activists, critical researchers, and civil society organizations are being conducted internationally.[2]
One of Arikan's works MyPocket (2008)[3] is a live software system that predicts what the artist buys every day and discloses his spending records to the world. MyPocket was shown in Neuberger Museum of Art New York, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, and Media Space / FilmWinter Stuttgart, and most recently in the New Observatory exhibition in FACT Liverpool.[4]
Arikan is an adjunct faculty in Interactive Telecommunications Program, Tisch School of Arts, New York University.[5][6]
Arikan completed his master's degree at the MIT Media Lab in Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Physical Language Workshop led by John Maeda.
Arikan is a member of Alternative Informatics Association, a civil society organization in Turkey focusing on the issues of Internet freedom and digital rights.
References
- ↑ http://teaching.burak-arikan.com/creative-networking/ Creative Networking Workshops
- ↑ http://civilsocietydialogue.blogspot.com NGO Network Mapping Workshops
- ↑ http://www.turbulence.org/Works/mypocket/ MYPOCKET (2008)
- ↑ http://www.fact.co.uk/projects/the-new-observatory/burak-arikan-ustr.aspx
- ↑ http://itp.nyu.edu/itp/people/people.php?id=2416&
- ↑ http://itp.nyu.edu/varwiki/Syllabus/Creative-Networking-F08 Creative Networking, ITP, NYU Fall 2008
External links
- http://burak-arikan.com
- Theresa Everline (July 30, 2006). "Tech for art's sake: (Open source digital software) plus (fake currency) minus (dealers, galleries, critics) equals the Media Lab's subversive experiment on the art market". The Boston Globe.
- Sacha Pohflepp (2006). "Interview with Burak Arikan". We Make Money Not Art.
- Astrid Girardeau (October 10, 2007). "Le site du jour : La limite des frontières". Escrans/Libération.
- "°.° noise-and-failure! issue". Junk Jet (magazine) (n°1). 2007.
- "MYPOCKET (2008)". Turbulence. 2008.
- Greg J. Smith (2008). "Burak Arikan Interview". Serial Consign. Archived from the original on 2009-10-13.
- Greg J. Smith (2007). "Meta-Markets: speculating on social media". Serial Consign. Archived from the original on 2008-05-15.Greg J. Smith (2007). "Meta-Markets: speculating on social media". Serial Consign.
https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20080515204702/http://serialconsign.com/node/119
- Kazys Varnelis (2009). "The Immediated Now: Network Culture and the Poetics of Reality". networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art).
- Vercihan Ziflioğlu (February 23, 2009). "Conceptual art supplies a mysterious exhibition". Hürriyet Daily News.
- Susan Hodara (March 5, 2009). "‘New Media’: Brain Trees, DNA, Receipts ... and Bells". The New York Times.
- Civil Society Workshop Series, Istanbul–Paris, 2009.
- Discrimination Maps. Ayrımcılık Ağları, 2009-2010.
- Folkert & Atley (2010). "There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum". But Does It Float.
- Physical Language Workshop