Selçuk Artut (1976)’un sanatsal araştırmaları ve üretimleri insan-teknoloji ilişkisinin teorik ve pratik boyutlarına odaklanır. Artut’un çalışmaları Dystopie Sound Art Festival (Berlin, 2018), Moving Image NY (New York, 2015), Art13 London (Londra, 2013), ICA London (Londra, 2012), Art Hong Kong (Hong Kong, 2011),10. İstanbul Bienali (İstanbul, 2007)’nde sergilenmiş ve Artsy, Creative Applications, CoDesign, Visual Complexity, CNN GO gibi mecralarda yer almıştır. Sanatçı, Medya ve İletişim üzerine doktorasını İsviçre’deki European Graduate School’da tamamlamıştır. Güncel olarak, Ses ve Etkileşim dersleri verdiği Sabancı Üniversitesi’nde Görsel Sanatlar ve Görsel İletişim Tasarımı programında öğretim üyesi olarak çalışmaktadır. 1998 yılından beri üyesi olduğu post-rock avangard müzik grubu Replikas ile bir çok albüm çıkarmıştır. 2016 yılında, Alp Tuğan ile beraber RAW isimli canlı kodlama yöntemi ile işler üreten, ses ve görüntü performansı grubunu kurmuştur.

Emre Koyuncu is an Assistant Professor at Istanbul Technical University, Department of Aeronautical Engineering. He has received his Ph.D. (SESAR JU) degree in Aerospace Engineering from ITU in 2015. He was a visiting researcher at Boeing Research and Technology of Europe during 2013-2014, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Aero-Astro Department during 2014-2015. His research interests lie in the broad areas of aeronautics, robotics, navigation and control theory. In particular, he focuses on the implementation of optimization-based control, reinforcement learning and probability theory for the design and analysis of high-performance cyber-physical systems. The application areas of his research include agile unmanned aerial vehicles; flight trajectory optimization and planning; airborne conflict detection and resolution; GPS-denied navigation; flight management and decision support systems; high-level autonomy in air traffic control systems; modeling and resiliency assurance in large-scale air traffic networks. Prof. Koyuncu has lead in numerous research grants and industrial projects from institutes and companies such as SESAR, BOEING, ASELSAN, HAVELSAN, TAI, TUBITAK, STM, Turkish Airlines, and IGA. Prof. Koyuncu is currently the Vice-Dean of Aerospace Institute of Istanbul Technical University, Co-PI of ITU Aerospace Research Center (ITU ARC) as the director of AI, Controls and Avionics Research Group. He is the recipient of a Boeing Early Career Grant in 2015 and SESAR JU Ph.D. Fellowship during 2012-2015. In addition to being IEEE Senior Member, he serves as a Associate Editor of IEEE Access Journal, TC member of IEEE Control Systems Society on Hybrid Systems, and TC member of AIAA Air Transportation Systems.

Ulaş Karademir halen Unity Technologies’de “Teknoloji ve Operasyon Genel Müdürü” olarak çalışmakta Unity bünyesindeki birçok takımın yöneticiliğini yapmaktadır. Önceki iş tecrübeleri: Better Collective’de “Ürün Geliştirme Direktörü” olarak görev almış (8 Gazelles ödülü kazanmıştır) ve IO Interactive’in ünlü Hitman serisinin Glacier 2 motorunun “Teknik Prodüktörü” olarak çalışmıştır.

Unity Technologies’deki görevinin yanı sıra üretim teorileri, liderlik, klan kültürü ve oyun teorisi üzerine seminerler vermektedir.

Dr. Akbilgic is a data scientist with expertise in statistical modeling, machine learning, and deep learning for clinical decision making. He earned his BS degree in Mathematics (2001) and PhD in Quantitative Methods (2011) from Istanbul University and MS in Statistics from Mimar SInan University (2005). He carried out postdoctoral studies at University of Tennessee Knoxville, (2012-2103) and University of Calgary (2013-2015). He worked at University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, TN as an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics (2015-2019). He is currently an Associate Professor of Health Informatics at Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL.

Refik Anadol is a media artist and director born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1985. Currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He is a lecturer and visiting researcher in UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts.

He is working in the fields of site-specific public art with parametric data sculpture approach and live audio/visual performance with immersive installation approach, particularly his works explore the space among digital and physical entities by creating a hybrid relationship between architecture and media arts with machine intelligence. He holds a master of fine arts degree from University of California, Los Angeles in Media Arts, master of fine arts degree from Istanbul Bilgi University in Visual Communication Design as well as bachelors of arts degree with summa cum laude in Photography and Video.

As a media artist, designer and spatial thinker, Refik Anadol is intrigued by the ways in which the transformation of the subject of contemporary culture requires rethinking of the new aesthetic, technique and dynamic perception of space. Anadol builds his works on the nomadic subject’s reaction to and interactions with unconventional spatial orientations with data and machine intelligence. Embedding media arts into architecture, he questions the possibility of a post digital architectural future in which there are no more non-digital realities. He invites the viewers to visualize alternative realities by presenting them the possibility of re-defining the functionalities of both interior and exterior architectural formations. Anadol’s work suggests that all spaces and facades have potentials to be utilized as the media artists’ canvases.

Privileging difference rather than singularity and movement rather than stasis, Anadol faces all the new challenges that the gradual development of an enriched immersive environment and ubiquitous computing impose on architects, media artists and engineers. How is our experience of space changing, now that digital objects ranging from smart phones to urban screens have all but colonized our everyday lives? How have media technologies changed our conceptualizations of space, and how has architecture embraced these shifting conceptualizations? These are the three main questions that Anadol tackles by not simply integrating media into built forms, but by translating the logic of a new media technology into spatial design.