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Conversations: Choi Doo Eun, Creative director at the Art Center Nabi

Guest Curator of Anima presented at Borusan Contemporary in 2013.

How to Construct Bodies?

Universal Everything's Fluid Bodies exhibition reflects on the moral and social implications of technology. The propositions of Fluid Bodies, which uses technology as a field in which the word ‘techne’ and ‘logos’, ie craft and expression come together, could be read as images from the future—the existing technical potentials can be transformed in real time.

In the Age of the Anthropocene, Identity Elements in Conflict in the Museum Space and the Esthetic Language of Ellen Kooi

Internet and digital technologies to the physicality of communication: Ali Miharbi’s artistic practice

Borusan Contemporary kicked off the new season’s conversations on art and technology with a detailed presentation by Fatih Aydoğdu on the history of the use of sound in New Media. In October, Ali Miharbi, an artist from Turkey who often uses sound in his installations, discussed his works within the framework provided by Aydoğdu. Rumeysa Kiger interviewed the artist after his talk.

“YOU KNOW WHAT IS IN YOUR VOICE
A SLEEPLESS TURKISH”

A conversation on Cemal Süreya’s poetry and his multi-dimensional creativity.
Necmi Sönmez

Conversations: Rudolf Frieling, Curator of Media Arts, SFMOMA

Guest Curator of West Coast Visions: Artists from the SFMOMA Media Arts Collection presented at Borusan Contemporary in 2014

A Brief Overview of the Beginnings of High-Frequency Sound Strategies

Soundscapes: The Use of Sound in Art and The Perception of Space

From Low-Frequency Sounds to Impossible Sounds | A Journey to the Third Platform
On Art, Culture, Sound, Noise, Resonance, and Music

Movement in the Age of CGI*

Migration, mobility, and movement inform “Fluid Bodies”, a deeply unnerving exhibit of the perils and potentials of the Information Age. Universal Everything’s eight video installations allure and captivate, disturb and unsettle, and they cover a wide range of present-day problems: urbanization, mass mentality, and the existential implications of artificial general intelligence.

Üvercinka and the alphabet of love

Borusan Contemporary hosts Borusan Group’s headquarter offices during the week where artworks live alongside the people who work there. Over the weekend, the space is transformed into a museum, converging notions of exhibition spaces and spaces of daily use. Thus, every work that is on view as part of the collection exhibitions at Borusan Contemporary works a double shift. The curator of these exhibitions, Necmi Sönmez, has been drawing from Turkish literature to interpret and delve into this international collection for the past three years. We have talked to Sönmez about this research process on the occasion of the new exhibition, Üvercinka

How can technology speak to its owner?

Fluid Bodies, the exhibition showcasing works of Universal Everything, the collective which produces interactive projects using sophisticated visual technologies, is on view at Borusan Contemporary since September 15, 2018. Naz Kocadere interviewed Matt Pyke, the creative director of the global collective.