Burak Arıkan (born in 1976, Istanbul) is a Turkish contemporary artist. His work is based on complex networks and thereby generates data and inputs in the custom abstract machine. Arikan is the founder of Graph Commons, a platform for mapping, analyzing and publishing data-networks. Graph Commons workshop for artists, activists, critical researchers, and civil society organizations are being conducted internationally.
One of Arikan's works MyPocket (2008) is a live software system that predicts what the artist buys every day and discloses his spending records to the world. MyPocket was shown in Neuberger Museum of Art New York, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, and Media Space / FilmWinter Stuttgart, and most recently in the New Observatory exhibition in FACT Liverpool.
Arikan is an adjunct faculty in
Interactive Telecommunications Program, Tisch School of Arts,
New York University
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In 1832, the ...
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Arikan completed his master's degree at the
MIT Media Lab in
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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in the
Physical Language Workshop led by
John Maeda
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Arikan is a member of
Alternative Informatics Association
The Alternative Informatics Association ( tr, Alternatif Bilişim Derneği) is an Istanbul-based civil society organization focusing on the issues of media literacy, Internet censorship, and mass surveillance
Mass surveillance is the intri ...
, a civil society organization in Turkey focusing on the issues of Internet freedom and digital rights.
References
External links
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Civil Society Workshop Series Istanbul–Paris, 2009.
Discrimination Maps '' Ayrımcılık Ağları'', 2009–2010.
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Physical Language Workshop
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Living people
Turkish contemporary artists
Turkish conceptual artists
Turkish digital artists
1976 births
Tisch School of the Arts faculty
MIT Media Lab people