Browsing by Author "Selen, Eser"

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Cybernetic Narrative Modes of Circularity, Feedback and Perception in New Media Artworks
(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 2015) Selen, Eser
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore how second-order cybernetics (von Foerster, 2002) functions in new media artworks, specifically through information, system and user. While formulating the relationship between new media artworks and the discourses surrounding cybernetics the paper analyzes Popp's (2006) Bit. Fall, Wojtowicz's (2007) Elsewhere News and Zeren Goktan's (2013) The Counter, as exemplars of alternative methods of narration. This study further argues that these new media artworks employ a cybernetic narrative via modes of "circularity," "feedback," and "perception." Design/methodology/approach - This paper offers a theoretical approach to new media art and cybernetics in order to analyze three select works. Since the works mentioned have diverse takes on the presented concepts each is discussed and analyzed in their frame of production in relation to cybernetics and new media standpoints. Findings - It is significant that these three artists attempt to invert the quotidian into the concept of new media while cybernetics facilitates their interactive art installations. The fully functioning circularity in these works breaks down the linear narrative structure while regenerating a non-linear narrative together with the flow of information, utilization of the systems and the user interaction. In these works narrative functions as a tool for interaction, which is cybernetically generated by the user (human) and the systems (machine). Originality/value - New media artworks at least suggest a possibility of observing contemporary art and its history in the making if not generating it altogether through cybernetic modes of "circularity," "feedback" and "perception." The experience of these artworks for each user differs depending on their choice to either reject or become immersed in the work. The possible sensoria, however, may still be betrayed by the mind's willingness to cooperate or at times by the ability to perceive.
Displaying Heritage in Contemporary Turkey
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2019) Şimşek, Cansu Nur; Selen, Eser
This study is an analysis of the reconceptualization of cultural heritage via its display by contemporary art practices. Through the proposed title the understanding of heritage is reframed as an experience which is intertemporal, inter-generational, and ephemeral, that creates in-between spaces. In the first chapter heritage, today is assessed with a conclusion as to let heritage to define itself can be possible by the artistic ways of looking, displaying and also preserving the idea of heritage. Chapter Two approaches heritage both as a performance and experience while the linear perception of time is criticized by referring to the concept of contemporariness. The merging of the past, present, and future imagination is explained with mnemonic time engineering model. In the scope of Istanbul, displaying heritage have been practiced through the usage of heritage spaces for temporary contemporary art exhibitions mostly by the Istanbul Biennials. In the Chapter Three, displaying heritage and contemporary art in tandem is read as a method for alternating the spaces of exhibitions. Therefore, the conventional exhibiting methods of the art galleries, museums and biennials are also analysed. In Chapter Four, the spatial experience “Water Soul” (2015) and the practices of an art collective Oddviz and their works from the “Inventory” (2018) exhibition are analysed under the concept of displaying heritage today. In the final chapter the study is concluded that heritage today can be reconceptualized by the decentralized, and the multi-media-based gaze of art today, by allowing it to be able to define itself in a way that it cannot be adapted, stereotyped or forgotten.
An Exploration of Space in Murakami's the Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and After Dark
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2019) Tüfekçioğlu, Burcu; Selen, Eser
Bu çalışma, Haruki Murakami'nin iki farklı eserinin yakın okumasını yaparak, eserlerdeki mekânlar ve karakterler arasındaki ilişkiyi ve bu karşılıklı ilişkili olma durumunun önemini ortaya koymak amacıyla sunulmuştur. Zemberek Kuşunun Güncesi (1994-95) ve Karanlıktan Sonra (2004) adlı romanlar arasındaki benzerlikler bu amaç doğrultusunda incelenmiştir. Bu tezde Henri Lefebvre'nin mekân teorisi üzerinden eserlerdeki mekânların ve karakterlerin birbirlerini nasıl eş zamanlı olarak ürettikleri karşılaştırmalı bir biçimde ele alınmaktadır. Yıllar boyunca, Murakami kitaplarının kendine özgü bir dünyaya sahip olduğu iddia edilmiştir. Bu çalışmada, kitaplardaki karakterlerin ve mekânların birbirleri sayesinde nasıl kendilerini var ettikleri açıklanmaktadır. Karakterlerin ortaya çıkması için mekânın zorunlu olduğunu öne sürmekle birlikte, çalışma, aynı şekilde karakterlerin de mekânın üretilmesi için zorunlu olduğunu savunuyor. Araştırmadan beklenen sonuç, her iki romandaki mekânlar ve karakterler arasında etkileşimin benzeşen yönlerini ortaya çıkarmaktır.
Fantasy Setting Narrative Space in the Queer Cinema of the Usa (1990s–2010s)
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2016) Küçük, Ahmet Serdar; Selen, Eser
Fantasy Setting Narrative Space in the Queer Cinema of the USA (1990s–2010s) investigates the origins and functioning of particular choices of setting fantasy elements and non-linear narrative structures in the queer cinema of the United States from the 1990s to 2010s. The study aims to identify a comprehensive counter-culture utopianism in queer cinema with selected examples from American and to a lesser degree world cinema. What is common in the selected films is the notion of escape and the creation and utilization of alternative spaces in which queer-identified characters can take refuge. in the context of the study escape and alternative spaces are associated with revolutionary practices in light of arguments that are derived from the work of Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari José Muñoz and to some extent Marc Augé. The selection of films which also includes some queer classics such as The Living End The Watermelon Woman and Shortbus are assessed through a combination of formalist and contextualist approaches. The formal analyses of the films concentrate on various queer film settings ranging from the road and the stage to the prison and the concentration camp as well as several counter-narrative strategies such as parody pastiche and narrative intransitivity along with particular uses of miseen- scène camera movements sounds editing choices characterization and genre. Special attention is given to cultural and historical context and the representation of sexuality race gender and class is taken into consideration. The study reveals the special ways in which queer films give a critique of heteronormativity racism class inequality commodity culture and nuclear family as well as mainstream film production which denies or suppresses the queer existence.
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‘i Am Here’: Women Workers’ Experiences at the Former Cibali Tekel Tobacco and Cigarette Factory in Istanbul
(Routledge, 2017) Selen, Eser; O'Neil, Mary Lou
This study presents oral history research which investigated the experiences of surviving women workers from the former Cibali Tekel Tobacco and Cigarette Factory in Istanbul Turkey. For most of its history the factory was home to thousands of workers many of who were women and at times outnumbered men two to one. While the site is now known for the university that it houses photographs and archival records from the early twentieth century reveal the centrality of women in the process and production of tobacco and cigarettes until the factory completely shut down in 1995. Using oral history methods we recorded the memories of 17 women who worked in the factory. A multi-faceted analysis reveals the gendered nature of the space at the time as well as the importance of the factory as a place in the lives of these women. © 2017 Informa UK Limited trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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The Impacts of Processes of Digitalization on the Reception of Contemporary Art in Turkey During Covid-19
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2023) Selen, Eser; Sunam, Aylin; Akin, Afife Idil; Bicakci, Hilal; Kaplan, Arda
During the Covid-19 pandemic, internet-based technologies have become a lifeline for artists, art professionals, and audiences. The widespread usage of digital formats and techniques in the production and presentation of artworks has made contemporary art practices more accessible and thus open to being experienced. On that point, we ask: How has contemporary art, which rapidly shifted to digital platforms soon after the outbreak of the pandemic, been received in light of these transformations? By means of an online survey (N = 627), we examined the art-viewing habits of contemporary art audiences in Turkey, exploring how they have changed in the course of the pandemic and how that shift has been reflected in their experiences. Our findings reveal that while audiences have been willing to engage with online art content, the virtual realm cannot and will not be able to replace the physical experience of going to art venues in person.
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Küresel Covid19 Salgının Türkiye'deki Çagdas Sanatı Dönüstürücü Etkileri
(2020) Çarkoğlu, Aslı; Selen, Eser; Sunam, Aylin
Bu proje, küresel COVID-19 salgınının Türkiye?nin kültürel, sosyal ve ekonomik gelismesinde ve kalkınmasında önemli rolü olan çagdas sanat alanına dair mevcut, öngörülen ve öngörülemeyen etkilerinin sanatçılar, sanat profesyonelleri ve sanat izleyicisinden olusturdugumuz örneklem grubumuzla, sosyal ve beserî bilimler perspektifinden inceleyerek arastırmaktadır. Çalısmamız, salgının etkilerinin çagdas sanat evreninden görünür hale gelebilmesi ile Türkiye kültür ve sanat sektörünün altyapısının güçlendirilmesine dair çözüm önerilerinin gelistirilmesine katkıda bulunmayı hedefler. Karma yöntemli vaka çalısmasına dayalı bu arastırmada olgular bazında dijital arsiv ve gelistirilmis alanyazın taramaları ısıgında sosyal medya ve internet platformlarını kapsayan veri madenciligi ile çagdas sanat ve COVID-19 kesisiminde veriler kazınmıstır. Olusturulan örneklem grubu ile çevrimiçi anket yapılmıs, elde edilen sonuçlardan olgular bazında vakalar olusturularak, üç ana grup etrafında sanatçı, sanat profesyonelleri ve sanat izleyicileri ile yarıyapılandırılmıs derin görüsmeler yapılmıstır. Toplanan nitel verilerin içerik analizi yapılarak, nicel verilerin nitel verileri destekleyerek betimsel istatistiki yollarla çözümlenmis, arastırmanın amaçlarına ve hedeflerine yönelik analiz edilerek bulgularına ulasılmıstır. Arastırmanın nihai sonuçları ve proje süresince üretilen analizler, salgından kültürel, sosyal ve ekonomik olarak olumsuz etkilenen çagdas sanat sektörünün bütüncül bir biçimde desteklenmesi için yapılacak çalısmalara bilgi ve belge saglama hedefi ile yorumlanmıstır. Çalısmanın bulgu ve sonuçlarından olusan infografiklerin de yer aldıgı kamuya açık bütünsel bir internet sitesi tasarlanarak erisime açılmıstır.
Maker Movement’s Effects on the Democratization of Design Process
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2017) Çeliksap, Burcu; Selen, Eser
This thesis examines how Maker Movement democratizes the design process by focusing on technologies and tools used by Makers. The Maker Movement has formed by people from different social-economic groups gather to create new jobs innovate by accessing the open source tools of production. The discourse of the Maker Movement is on the political spectrum because of its contents such as knowledge exchange manufacturing using technology and tools ushering “the new industrial revolution.” (Anderson 2012) The study explores questions such as how society involves itself in this movement? How people communicate and transfer their knowledge? How do the effects of Makers Movement effects on society engagement change the economic structure within society? Lastly how can the new tools for design process in Maker movement be democratized and the roles of designers in this movement? The context of this study invites us to embrace the humanist implications of interaction with technology in the contexts of production design process content sharing accessibility to the tools of production creating small businesses and access/hack of materials utilized and having a vision towards the future of Maker Movement. Maker Movement and the Maker Community might shine a light on our formal values ethics and communication as this study is an ongoing project since the Maker Movement is happening now and is developing and growing every day.
Mediating Eversion :an Analysis of Virtual Reality in Bodily Experience
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2016) Andıç, Atanur; Selen, Eser
This study is an analysis of perceptual and behavioral understanding of audio-visual mediations from the subject’s (user/viewer) perspective. The aim is to analyze the processes in the perception of the content and form of the media as well as how their physical mass are received. in the tracked evolvement of media the concept of “eversion” by Marcus Novak is introduced to analyze the Head Mounted Display (HDM) media as they are more adaptable to their subjects. Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s understanding of perception and existence are being used in defining the notion of experience. The thesis states that the subjects in experience of the HMD media perceptually are in control of the narrative while being re-embodied through the spatial elements of polysemous content. in the conclusion how spatiality of content become a performative value is reached.
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Occupied Experiences Displays of Alternative Resistance in Works by Palestinian and Jewish Israeli Artists
(Routledge, 2017) Selen, Eser
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Occupied Experiences: Displays of Alternative Resistance in Works by Palestinian and Jewish Israeli Artists
(Taylor & Francis, 2016) Selen, Eser
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Perception, Petroleum, and Power: Mythmaking in Oil-Scarce Turkey and Jordan
(Elsevier, 2020) Ediger, Volkan S.; Selen, Eser; Bowlus, John V.
Oil has been a cardinal driver of economic growth and national development in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. States that produce oil in globally exportable quantities tend to be more powerful than those that do not. Oil-scarce states in the Middle East that neighbor oil-rich states and rely on them for imports create myths to explain their relatively unfortunate geology. This study illustrates and analyzes the myths that people in Turkey and Jordan have created to explain why they lack oil. In the process, it also explains the attitudes, beliefs, and social norms within these countries regarding oil. In both Turkey and Jordan, public understanding of why the country lacks oil forms a tautology about the relationship between oil and the nation's wealth and development, as well as its political, economic, and military power.
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“the Public Immoralist”: Discourses of Queer Subjectification in Contemporary Turkey
(University of Southern California, 2020) Selen, Eser
This study examines the forms of queer subjectification that have been molded through regular acts of gender- and sexuality-based violence against LGBTQ+ citizens as encouraged by the dominant religious and secular discourses in Turkey. Within that context, this article explicates the discursive mechanisms at work in the statements that were made by politicians and journalists between 2002 and 2018. In those discourses, the qualities attributed to nonheteronormative sexualities, such as perversion and disease, are perhaps the most widespread means of negating the existence of LGBTQ+ citizens and claiming that their lifestyles are “immoral.” Based on a case study that incorporates the existing historical and sociopolitical background, which props up a heteronormative patriarchal culture, this study critically analyzes the discourses that have emerged in a state of moral panic regarding queer in/visibilities, dis/appearances, and aversions/subversions in the Turkish sociopolitical sphere.
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The Public Immoralist: Discourses of Queer Subjectification in Contemporary Turkey
(Usc Annenberg Press, 2020) Selen, Eser
This study examines the forms of queer subjectification that have been molded through regular acts of gender- and sexuality-based violence against LGBTQ+ citizens as encouraged by the dominant religious and secular discourses in Turkey. Within that context, this article explicates the discursive mechanisms at work in the statements that were made by politicians and journalists between 2002 and 2018. In those discourses, the qualities attributed to nonheteronormative sexualities, such as perversion and disease, are perhaps the most widespread means of negating the existence of LGBTQ+ citizens and claiming that their lifestyles are "immoral." Based on a case study that incorporates the existing historical and sociopolitical background, which props up a heteronormative patriarchal culture, this study critically analyzes the discourses that have emerged in a state of moral panic regarding queer in/visibilities, dis/appearances, and aversions/subversions in the Turkish sociopolitical sphere.
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Rethinking Nationalist Ethno-Racist and Gendered Myths: an Art Historical Take on Minoritarian Variations From Turkey
(Taylor & Francis, 2017) Selen, Eser
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The Stage: a Space for Queer Subjectification in Contemporary Turkey
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2012) Selen, Eser
This article focuses on the role of the stage in complex modes of gender performativity in the work of three Turkish performers: Zeki Muren (1931-1996) Bulent Ersoy (b. 1952) and Seyfi Dursunoglu (b. 1932) a.k.a. Huysuz Virjin [Cranky Virgin]. These three I suggest are the pioneers of contemporary Turkish queer performance. Their performances - both on-and off-stage - are validated through a reiterative absence of queerness in their everyday lives and stand in the midst of various negotiations between queers and the secular Islamic nation-state in Turkey. In the works of Muren Ersoy and Huysuz the stage is suggestive of a space where queerness can be managed. It is a contested space that does at least allow for the communication of queer ideas to a wider audience. I discuss the works of these three performers as three variations of queerness in Turkey in relation to different eras and different political climates that are directly related to the nation-state's desire to perform modernity. While explicating complicated modes of gender performativity I consider the stage as the primary space for a queer body to exist. Through this discussion I aim to activate debates both within and against the context of secular Islam on gendered political space and on those overlooked sexualized spaces in which the nation-state produces powerful yet unstable values to manage queer subjectivity in contemporary Turkey.
Unsetting the Standards of Female Beauty: an Examination of Contemporary Images of Women in Advertisement
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2014) Zmiric, irma; Selen, Eser
This study examines the representations of female beauty as a myth in print advertisements in contemporary popular culture. Within many different types of physical beauty that are made popular by mainstream advertisings this thesis explores the types of beauty myths as well as the models embodied by each. Through in depth analyses of select mass media advertisements the thesis intends to explain the myth of beauty. The thesis argues that the idea of beauty as a myth should be explored in a multilayered context affected by the patriarchal ideologies rather than just focusing on a single dimension of understanding beauty as a flattering attribute. While emphasising the similarities and differences in the types of beauty the thesis also aims to link particular types of beauty with the categories of product promoted in the selected advertisements. -- Abstract'tan.
Waking Life ve A Scanner Darkly Filmlerinde Rotoskop Tekniğinin Kullanımının Anlatıya Etkisi
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2019) Uçar, Zeynep; Selen, Eser
1915 yılında Max Fleischer tarafından geliştirilen ve günümüzde hem elde hem de dijital olarak üretimi sürdürülen rotoskop tekniği, oyuncunun filme alınmış performansının projeksiyon yardımıyla cam bir yüzeyin arkasına yansıtılarak tek seferde tek kare olmak üzere görüntünün üzerinden elde çizim yapılmasına olanak tanıyan bir yöntemdir. Yöntem, diğer tekniklerden hareketin çizgi karaktere kopyalandığı süreçte fotoğrafik görüntünün çizgisel form ile bastırılması yoluyla ayrışmaktadır. Bu durum, görüntünün varlık-yokluk, gerçeklik- temsil, görüntülenen öznenin yahut animatörün varlığı gibi ikilikler arasındaki gerilimden beslenerek muğlak bir görsel izlenim yaratmasına neden olmaktadır. Ayrıca, yöntem, animasyonun erken dönemlerinde, tekniğin ontolojisi göz önünde bulundurulmaksızın, yalnızca hareket kesitleri arası geçişin akışkan ve gerçekçi bir biçimde gerçekleşmesini sağlamak için kullanılmıştır. Bu nedenle dijital çağa geçilmesi ile birlikte haraket yakalama [motion capture] gibi tekniklerin kullanılmaya başlamasıyla yalnızca rotoskop tekniği kullanılarak üretilen animasyon sayısında düşüş gözlenmektedir. Buradan hareketle, dijital çağa geçilmesinden itibaren yalnızca rotoskop tekniği kullanılan animasyonlar, tekniğin ontolojisini anlam yaratmaya yönelik bir biçimde kullanmaya başlamışlardır. Waking Life (Linklater, 2001) ve A Scanner Darkly (Linklater, 2006) gibi rotoskop tekniğini kullanan ve karakterlerin uyuşturucu ve rüyalar dolayımıyla içinde bulundukları gerçeklik ile olan ilişkilerini merkezine alan animasyonların, anlatılarında, görüntünün kullanmakta olduğu fotoğrafik imge ile olan ilişkisinden, algısal alana dair ve çizgisel olanın bir arada bulunmasının sağladığı muğlak izlenimden yararlanılmaktadır. Bu ilintiden yola çıkılarak yapılacak araştırmanın amacı rotoskop tekniğinin algı ile nasıl bir ilişki kurduğunu ve bahsi geçen filmlerin anlatısında sinemanın deneyim ile ilişkisi üzerine ne gibi söylemler üretilmesini sağladığını, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Andre Bazin, Walter Benjamin gibi kuramcıların imge üzerine teorileri doğrultusunda kavramaktır.
Women’s Empowerment Through the Internet
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2014) Karataş, Şule; Selen, Eser
This thesis aims to investigate the possibility of women’s empowerment through the internet. Examining women’s empowerment in three major topics: health politics and economy this study argues that the internet empowers women by providing them the cyberspace to access information to share their experiences and to communicate about different issues which have impacts on women’s lives. Through analyzing various websites and blogs operated by women around the world the study suggests that women challenge their offline realities by conveying them into the cyberspace. The thesis further explores virtual communities to discuss that the internet is an empowering medium for women in the issue of activism against ignorance discrimination and violence. -- Abstract'tan.