Artistic Statement: Phantom LimbsSelçuk ARTUT - 2025 “Phantom Limbs” explores the fragile tension between order and collapse, drawing upon the haunting image from Planet of the Apes (1968) where the Statue of Liberty lies buried in sand—a poignant symbol of a fractured connection to the past. In this moment of dystopian revelation, the grandeur of human achievement is reduced to a...
In this book, I intend to present multiple layers of issues, all of which are important to me. To begin, I would like to emphasize that our perspective on the history of art should be handled in an all-encompassing manner and that it should not belong to any particular group or period. I believe that the history of art should...
Artwork collections gradually branch out to include works produced using technologies including video, sound, image, code, virtual or augmented reality, kinetic, digital or physical hybridity. These artworks are also dependent on software and hardware technologies regarding their representation. It is an urgent matter for all the cultural institutions bearing the responsibility of preserving the cultural legacy, to maintain these said...
In Turkish only Uzak olanı yaklaştıran, görünmeyeni gösteren teknoloji, insanların yaşamlarında radikal değişikliklere yol açıyor. Bedenlerimizle sürekli bir etkileşim içinde olan teknoloji, bedenlerimizin içinde veya dışında yer alarak, adeta bedenlerimizin bir uzantısı haline geldi. İnsanın nesneye dönüşümünü mümkün kılan genetik klonlamayla birlikte, haysiyet kavramı yeni tartışmalara neden oluyor. İnsan zekâsı, bu karmaşık dünya düzeninin bilgi fırtınaları sırasında kapasitesini artırarak hayatta kalmak...
Artist Book Publisher: Zilberman Gallery, 2020 ‘‘Silence is a coincidence. You happen to find yourself in it. There are so many sounds around you and you don’t hear any of them. For a moment you plunge into emptiness as if breaking away from life. You hide behind that invisible curtain in a quiet manner. This might be a way of holding yourself...
Artist Book Publisher: Zilberman Gallery 2019 Surrounded by the demise of tranquillity, the effort to pronounce a whispered melody radiates dimly into my void. All that I am able to hear resolves into a high-pitched melody ringing in my mismatched ears. But there is still something out there trying to accompany the never-ending asynchronous rhythm. Unaware of the simplicity of the recursive...
Technological motion essentially incorporates improvement behind its ever-increasing tempo; nevertheless, it has become a phenomenon which we feel obliged to adapt under new circumstances. While our life, saturated by quadrilateral screens, insistently elaborates and introduces information, our agendas, formed by addictive intense data flow push the individuals into astonishment and confusion, differentiating their perception of reality. Today, new visual technological...
Electricity is not a man-made invention. It is a resource that alters mankind with its widespread use. The world has rapidly changed when humans had succeeded in ruling over electricity as a result of their drive to control. When John Cage was talking about Electronic Music, he mentioned the dilation of the concepts in music. As long as electricity exists,...
