Lecturers

Candaş Şişman is an artist, who uses digital and mechanical technologie

Cansu Çakar is a miniature artist born in 1988 in Istanbul and currently lives in Izmir and Beirut. She studied at the department of Traditional Turkish Arts at Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Fine Arts

Çelenk Bafra, curator and writer, lives and works in Istanbul. Since August 2018, Bafra has been the director of SAHA Association that supports contemporary art from Turkey globally: www.saha.org.tr. As a freelance curator, Bafra curated two group exhibitions in 2018: ‘School Square Galatasaray’ at the Pera Museum and ‘An Exile on Earth’ at the Zilberman Gallery-Istanbul following her curatorial residency in Berlin. 

CHARLOTTE KENT, PhD is the Assistant Professor of Visual Culture and Program Director for Art History at Montclair State University. Her work focuses on how various linguistic and visual rhetorical devices constrain what we are capable of seeing; whether examining art criticism, museum wall text, ekphrastic poetry, data visualizations or social media posts, her work questions why some things are so easily ignored. Her current research builds on that foundation to investigate the cultural context contributing to the rise of the absurd in contemporary art and speculative design. 

Deniz Aslan was born in Istanbul in 1964, graduated from Istanbul Technical University (ITU) in 1986. He acquired his master’s degree from Yıldız Technical University, Institute of Science, Landscape Planning Program, with his thesis on "Historical

Deniz Gül (b. in Izmir in 1982) is a conceptual artist.

Her practice, which navigates between visual arts and literature embraces an experimental and poetic approach. How objects become bodies and spaces to dwell in is a theme that developed in her work throughout years. Gül uses a wide pallette of organic and inorganic materials to their extremes, experimenting how materials come together and manifest a presence. Milk, plaster, acid, oil, water, rice, sugar, wood, glass, metal are some of these materials Gül choses to use. Centers and peripheries, bodies and identities, history and memory, life and death, language and archetypes, rituals and metaphors, such are the relations Deniz Gül dissects meticulously. Following a similar thread in literature, Gül arrives at an in between zone of “unlearning”, a zone that is not dominated by meaning, but by all means open to an emergence of experience, of possibilities.

Sophrologist, Pedagogue

Eda Soyal received her Bachelor's degree in Architecture from the KTU in 2010 and her Master’s degree in 2013 from UCL’s Architectural History and Theory Programme. She held a research assistant position with the Faculty of Architecture at the Mardin Artuklu University between 201 and 2018.

Ekmel Ertan works as artist, curator and educator. Ertan is the founder and artistic director of İstanbul based amberPlatform (by BIS, Beden-İşlemsel Sanatlar Derneği /Body-Process Arts Association), which is a research and production platform on art and new technologies. Ertan is the artistic director of the international “amber Art and Technology Festival” in Istanbul since 2007. He curated international amberPlatform exhibitions and events and several others as an independent curator.

Elif Hant graduated from the Department of Architecture, Gazi University in 2015. Upon graduation, she started working at Hayalgücü Tasarım in Ankara. After her office experience, she enrolled into ITU Architectural Design Graduate Program the

(1981, Bergama, Turkey) lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey.
Visual Artist