Conversation Jazz Network Panel: Can the Media in Turkey Keep Up with the Rhythm of Jazz?

Aiming to offer a multifaceted perspective shaped by voices from both the media and music scenes, the panel will take place on October 4 at Salon İKSV as part of the 35th Akbank Jazz Festival.

Blog A short film route from Italy to Turkey with Giulia Iannello

In our conversation with Giulia Iannello, we explore the journey of Magma International Short Film Festival, the details of its collaboration with Akbank Short Film Festival, and much more.

Seminar Popular Culture and Contemporary Art in Turkey

Popular Culture is the 20th century’s a gift to the cultural world. It can be said that it started with the entertainment industry and then encompassed every corner of human and social life and processes.

Conversation Film Criticism in Turkey

Burak Göral, Selin Gürel and Melikşah Altuntaş will share their valuable views in the field of film criticism with the festival followers.

Seminar Against the Black Box: Context, Actor, and Practice in Communication Technologies

17 May 2026 - In this talk, we will develop a social-constructivist critique of communication technology by focusing on the triad of context, actor, and practice while examining the place of communication technologies in social change.

Seminar Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work

19 April 2026 - The future of work, one of the prominent topics in the ongoing debate surrounding artificial intelligence, must be considered precisely in this context of social contradictions, relationships, hierarchies, and power relations.

Panel Where Do You Draw the Line: Suggestions for Transformation

13 December 2025 - How can women of all ages and backgrounds — whether experienced or new to the field, from different professions or communities — who have contributed to cinema or wish to work and continue working in the industry, see, recognize, learn from, and create with one another?

Learning Program An Alternative View on Art and Children

Starting from the question “What do you think artis?”, this four-day teacher training delves into questions like “Why dochildren create art?”, “What is talent and is it necessary?”, and “Can everyonebe an artist?”. This creative discussion environment is designed for teachersand teacher candidates.

Seminar Hegel and Large Language Models

30 November 2025 - This talk will lead a discussion on how the emerging new norms and institutions are affecting the human experience of subjectivity and modes of relationality, drawing on Hegel's texts, Phenomenology of Spirit and Elements of the Philosophy of Right.

Seminar Art Readings in the Light of Semiotics

20 November 2025 - We will focus on the adventure of art history; The changing descriptions of art, theorists and art historians using different methods in art history constitute the main axis of our seminar.

Seminar A Story of Modern and Contemporary Art - II

17 November 2025 - The sociological changes in the 19th century, especially in continental Europe, and their reflection on art will be studied with examples from Romanticism, Realism and Impressionism.

Conversation Where Do Art Department Stand on the Line?

8 November 2025 - In this talk, we will discuss to what extent the labor of art department workers — who are responsible for the entire visual world represented on screen — is acknowledged within this broader space of representation in cinema.