Burak Arıkan
Burak Arıkan (born in 1976, Istanbul) is a Turkish contemporary artist. His work is based on complex networks and thereby generates data and inputs in the custom abstract machine.[1] Arikan is the founder of Graph Commons, a platform for mapping, analyzing and publishing data-networks. Graph Commons workshop for artists,[2] activists, critical researchers, and civil society organizations are being conducted internationally.[3]
Burak Arikan | |
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| Born | May 28, 1976 |
| 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 |
One of Arikan's works MyPocket (2008)[4] 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.[5]
Arikan is an adjunct faculty in Interactive Telecommunications Program, Tisch School of Arts, New York University.[6][7]
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.[8]
References
- "Burak Arıkan | Ashoka | Everyone a Changemaker". www.ashoka.org. Retrieved 2022-10-28.
- 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)
- "Burak Arikan (US/TR) - FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology)". Archived from the original on 2017-07-11. Retrieved 2017-06-29.
- "ITP People Directory". Archived from the original on 2010-06-14.
- http://itp.nyu.edu/varwiki/Syllabus/Creative-Networking-F08 Creative Networking, ITP, NYU Fall 2008
- "Asst. Prof. EKİN BURAK ARIKAN | AVESİS". avesis.agu.edu.tr. Retrieved 2022-10-28.
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 (n°1). 2007.
- "MYPOCKET (2008)". Turbulence. 2008.
- Greg J. Smith (2008). "Burak Arikan Interview". Serial Consign. Archived from the original on 2009-10-13.
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- 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. Archived from the original on 2010-10-27. Retrieved 2010-07-14.
- Physical Language Workshop