Seminar State of the Art in Digital Technologies: New Wave AI, Promises, and Problems

27 May 2026 - What does the "New Wave Artificial Intelligence" promise us for the future, and what problems does it inherently contain? In this presentation, we will try to address how we should strike a balance between these two poles.

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.

Seminar Technological Art: Creation Processes in the Dialectic of Human and Technology

15 March 2026 - In this talk, we will attempt to question and examine the creation processes in the dialectic of human and technology, looking through the perspective of homo technologicus and focusing on Selçuk Artut's artworks.

Seminar Artificial Intelligence and the Possibility of Creativity

25 January 2026 - In this seminar, we will address the philosophical debate on creativity through the relationship between embodiment and the capacity for abstraction, reflecting on whether artificial intelligence can be seen as an accomplice that reveals the radical possibilities of abstraction.

Seminar Ground-Level Memory

24 December 2025 - Together with writer Hakan Bıçakcı, we walk through the ground level of Beyoğlu, tracing the marks of today and of the recent past.

Seminar From the Image of the World to the World of the Image: Cinematic Images and World-Building

21 December 2025 - In this seminar, we will focus on this reversal, examining how and under what conditions the relationship between cinema and the world has transformed, and the implications of this transformation.

Program Book Club on Creative Making

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.

Program Philosophy Seminars “Digital Technologies, Critique and Society II”

Seminar (CANCELLED) The Current State of Digital Technologies: 'New Wave Artificial Intelligence', Promises and Problems

21 May 2025 - The "New Wave of Artificial Intelligence" has made progress at a speed that most of us could not have predicted ten years ago, and even those working in the field twenty years ago would not have anticipated. So, what does this new paradigm promise for the future, and what issues does it inherently carry?

Workshop Sculpture Workshop for Youth: A Fictional World from Clay

16 May 2025 - In this workshop, young participants will combine their imagination with clay to design an entirely new world where everyone can find a place.