The project Atatürk-interface tries to explore the more than 70 years old Atatürk monuments in a more detailed way, than we see it daily in the public space. It selects 10 important sculptures and monuments done by different artists across Turkey and scan them into a digital computer model. The focus...

12 magnetic play/record heads are placed on the metal construction. A magnetic tape is looped around the wheels and is driven by a system of motors. The sound of the surrounding space is broadcast and recorded randomly on different parts of the looped tape making a constant feedback loop that is gradually...

12 magnetic play/record heads are placed on the metal construction. A magnetic tape is looped around the wheels and is driven by a system of motors. The sound of the surrounding space is broadcast and recorded randomly on different parts of the looped tape making a constant feedback loop that is gradually...

Atatürk–interface A survey of political sculptures in the public space of Turkey Intro Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is the most prominent political figure in the younger Turkish history. The founder of the Turkish Republic (1923) the person ofAtatürk enjoys far after his death (1938) until today...

Long may it wave is a project that began in Madrid. It consists of exploring the public space of the city in order to search, locate and map the flags that wave at buildings of the Nicosia and Ljubljana historic centre, either national, european, local, turkish or other kind of flags. Based on these...

Jingo Karaoke is an intervention and performance in public space. "We don’t want to fight but by Jingo if we do …We’ve got the ships, we’ve got the men, we’ve got the money too!" (Macdermott's War Song lyrics) It was 1878 when in the United States Edison patented the phonograph...

Utopia – an image of a perfect society, always out of reach, perpetually deferred to a time yet to come. Utopian visions have a function of forging collective identity, through a sublimation of diverging interests under a common vision of an ideal society in the future. The project of European integration...

The transforming institutional system of the art field is the main focus of my interest: what can be the role and responsibility of art institutes in the times of social and political changes? How does the given political, economical and social background determine these institutes? How these changes...

This presentation is a personal account of a series of related projects, dealing with issues around self-organisation, hackathon culture, and collaboration between technologists and artists, with a view to social change.