Digital Serendipity Talks Series: From New Aesthetics to the Future of Photography
Moderator: Ande Ömeroğlu
Speakers: Alper Yeşiltaş, Dilara Başköylü
As part of the exhibition's public program, We invite Alper Yesiltas and Dilara Baskoylu to talk about their artistic practices related to Artificial Intelligence. We will discuss different approaches to Artificial Intelligence in a context of art: from Dilara's media archeological strategy and the exploration of the new aesthetics through the experiments with technology to Alper's approach to using Artificial Intelligence at the intersection of photography and pop-culture.
Dilara Başköylü
Dilara Baskoylu is born in 1992, she is a new media artist based in Istanbul. She graduated from Koc University, Department of Media and Visual Arts with bachelor degree in 2018. The artist focuses on generative art, interactive design, audiovisual production in her works also she works with artificial intelligence.
The artist specializes in combining XR experiences, research-based hybrid experiences, node-based and interactive systems and artificial intelligence, her work mainly focuses on interaction design at Koc University KARMA Mixed Reality Laboratory as a member. On September 2022, she participated with KARMA Lab to “You Know Who” exhibition with “Catch the Trickster” project as interactive designer. As a member of Comet Laboratory, she continues her interactive design and artificial intelligence applications in the Spoliabotanique project, recently supported by the French Ministry of Culture, which aims to establish an urban botanical utopia network with augmented reality around the world. She is now working on a botanical interactive installation for international garden festival which will be exhibited at Chateau de Chaumont sur Loire.
She was selected to the IMMENSIVA International Residency program in April 2021. The interactive design project “Xhale”, in which the breath is visualized as a colorful geometric form that changes shape with breathing movements, was selected for the residence show held in Barcelona in June 2021. Selected by Pixel New Media for the Houdini Masterclass Workshop in 2022. In May 2022, the artist won the Akbank 40th Contemporary Artists Award by her video work "Morphing Women", which she created with a special data set created from women's found photographs and artificial intelligence algorithms.
Alper Yeşiltaş
Alper Yeşiltaş was born in Istanbul and lives in Kadıköy. He is married to Duygu Çimen Yeşiltaş and they have a son named Tibet. He is a graduate of Marmara University Faculty of Law, his first profession is law. He has been working on digital photography since 2003, imagining scenes and trying to capture moments. Many of his works have appeared on the covers of books, albums, magazines and exhibitions in different countries of the world and have been awarded in various competitions. After completing his law master's degree in the field of information technology law in England, he discovered the space where artificial intelligence meets the branches of art, especially photography, and started to create works in this field. "As If Nothing Happened" is the series featuring Alper Yeşiltaş's first works in this field. His main inspirations are Yousuf Karsh and Zdzislaw Beksinski.
* This event is for free. Participation is limited to 120 people and the entrance invitations can be obtained 1 hour before the event from Akbank Sanat Info Desk. Events will be held in Turkish.