FABRIKRAUM #01
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Çağdaş Çeçen is a Vienna based media artist. He studied Media Art : Digital Art at University of Applied Arts Vienna and Physics at University of Vienna. Currently, his artistic practices focuses in the relationship between human movement, space and uncertainty. Since 2018 he is developing new ways of interaction between human and space by using synesthetic nature of Quantum Physics not just symbolic or inspirational way but as an active element in his artworks. He strongly believes that democratization of Quantum Physics will open new artistic ways to reexplore our surroundings and improving our synesthetic sensation. His projects have been already presented in several countries: Austria, Italy, Poland, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Conciliating with his artistic activity.
Beser earned his BA in Ceramics and Glass Design from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul and pursued studies in Painting at the University of Seville in Spain. He is the founder and director of Open Studio Days İstanbul (@openstudiodays) and Fanzineist Vienna Art Book & Zine Fair, key platforms fostering alternative artistic expressions and independent publishing. Additionally, he is the co-founder of Heyt be! Fanzin (@heytbefanzin), a collective exploring the intersection of print culture and contemporary art, and the co-founder & president of Analog Dialog, a Vienna-based art association that initiates experimental projects within the city’s independent art scene.
Deniz Güvensoy is an artist, curator, and cultural researcher. She received her Doctorate in Fine Arts degree from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul and her Doctorate of Philosophy Degree from the University of Applied Arts Vienna. In her artistic practice, she employs various techniques such as performance, painting, collage, photography, digital printing, and installation. Her research often addresses migration, border theory and performativity. In her curatorial approach she brings together the topics of migration, collective practices, participatory and socially engaged art, and intersectional feminism.
Vienna-based new media artist Ozan Turkkan (1980) works at the intersection of art, science and technology. His work is centred on experimental digital media, focusing on generative and algorithmic art, AI (Artificial Intelligence), mixed reality experiences, digital archives, interaction, and motion as a reflection of the impermanent nature of existence, and human and social behaviour. He uses technology as a canvas to create innovative and engaging digital art installations. He is a co-founder of the NODE Media Lab, Vienna Vienna-based non-profit multi-disciplinary creative establishment with the main focus on research and production of interdisciplinary experiences around new media art, science and technology. He likes to explore the many-folded boundaries between science, art, and new technologies and combine different media elements in a creative process. Before the first steps in digital media, he studied and practised various art disciplines in Philadelphia, Salamanca, and Barcelona, collaborating with numerous institutions and art centres. After he graduated from The University of Salamanca, he received his Master’s degree in Multimedia at BAU (Escola Superior de Disseny, Universitat Central de Catalunya) in Barcelona, where he lived and worked for many years as a new media artist. His work has been exhibited in Art Centers, Museums, and Galleries such as; Santa Monica Art Centre Barcelona, Reina Sofia Museum Madrid, Centre of Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci Florence, Torrance Museum Los Angeles, Victoria House London, Lincoln Center NY, Banannefabrik Luxembourg, Europalia Art Festival Brussels, Les Brigittines Contemporary Arts Centre Brussels, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Santral Istanbul, Akbank Art Centre Istanbul, LOOP Videoart Festival Barcelona, Rotterdamse Schowbourg Rotterdam, WUK Vienna, Ars Electronica, Zifergauz St. Petersburg, Künstlerhaus Bregenz… Living in numerous cities throughout his life Ozan Turkkan has developed a sense of multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism which characterised his works. Complicated structures, conflicting and coexisting colours, and diversity have been a parameter to push the artist to stress a complex field that is converging around the art, new technologies, and the sciences of nature.