Genco Gulan
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Movement | Idea art, Post Dada |
Genco Gülan (Turkish pronunciation:
Gülan studied Media at
Art
Gülan uses text, codes and even his own DNA in his art. He is a new media artist.[3] Genco Gülan believes in the artistic future of bio-technology, artificial intelligence, and digital communication.[4] In a video piece called Tele-rugby, he filmed a female swim team playing rugby underwater with a TV monitor.[5]
"If it's not new, it's just media," says Gülan in regards to the importance of novelty. His experimental works[6] include net-art, web art, A.I.gen (generated) images, Robot Games, SCIgen papers and online videos.[7] Genco uses boron in his sculptures.[8]
Genco Gülan's exhibition Untitled came to Istanbul's EKAV Art Gallery on January 21, 2014. The gallery space was used in a manner that allowed all artworks "to talk" with each other. Different mediums were being used with a variety of measurements, colors and display styles.[9]
Works
The Android Statue was exhibited in Antalya Archeology Museum 12–20 March 2014. In the exhibition, the sketches of his kinetic marble statue series, called "Robotic Statues" were also presented. Gülan has been working on robots in the labs of different universities since the middle of 1990's. He uses hardware and software of robots in many art projects. For example, the artwork titled Robots, Football and War (RFW) of Gülan that consists of physical robots, was part of a computer game "Balkan Wars" that won a prize from European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück in 1995. His play written by artificial intelligence (AI) robots was used in the project YEN! (New), presented in Pera Museum, for 16th Istanbul Theatre Festival.[10]
Gülan's The Great Conjugation, was exhibited at his alma mater,
A show named Swimming Rocks was in an exhibit of the same name on 27 June 2014 at the Art Gallery of Kırmızı Ardıç Kuşu, Gallery Metazori in Çeşme, Alaçatı where Gülan spent most of his childhood. The "swimming rocks" in question are pumice rocks which can float on the sea and which are found in the Aegean Sea, especially in Çeşme and Alaçatı. Gülan made Swimming Rocks from these and other stones. The artworks of his mother, Tezer Gülan, and his grandmother, Saime İzmiroğlu were also exhibited in the show. Genco Gülan had also a series called New Landscape in this exhibition. This series, a conceptual/electronic interpretation of landscapes as barcodes, examined how landscapes change over time. Gülan also exhibited his series Digital Ghost in the show, painting images from his formatted laptop on large canvases.[12]
Museum
As an art project in 1997, Genco Gülan established the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum.[13]
"At first the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum developed as an art series in the manner of
Duchamp and Broodthaers until the end of the 1990s. Later it evolved when it was transferred to the Internet. It turned into a new age institution that organized exhibitions, workshops and provided logistic support on cyber space."[14]
For almost a decade, the museum ran a residency program called "I live in a Museum" and hosted artists from the U.S., the Netherlands, Spain, and China at its Galata location.[15] After the Istanbul location closed, Genco Gülan, in Berlin, manifested himself as a Museum.[16]
Gülan's monograph; "Conceptual Colors" edited by Marcus Graf, is co-published by Revolver Publishing in
Selected images
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Pompidou, From the "I love You series", C-print, Paris, 2007
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'Magic Beans' 2013. Sculpture with 600 used neckties and a crane, 150m.
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Art (Blue), ready-made, 2013.
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33.3 QR Code poem
References
- ^ Foroohar, Rana and Matthews, Owen. (28 August 2005). Turkish Delight. Newsweek. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- ^ Weshinskey, Anne. (25 August 2011) With Fish or Without. Lab Kultur. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- ISBN 978-88-95869-00-1
- ^ Gulan, Genco. (2004) 'Camerica, Puppy Art'. Artefact GLOCALOGUE. 5 June 2012.
- ^ Atakan, Nancy (Spring 2006)FROM NEW MEDIA FROM THE PERIPHERY Archived 1 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Journal of the New Media Caucus. Retrieved 11 July 2012.
- ^ Reil, Alexandra. (25 August 2011) Art Following the Trend?. Archived 11 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 5 June 2012
- ^ Landi, Ann (1 September 2009)What they see in Van Gogh's ear. ARTnews. Retrieved 23 June 2012.
- ^ Utku, Ahsen (23 April 2011)Genco Gulan sends messages to the future through art Archived 25 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Today's Zaman. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- ^ RHIZOME: Untitled, Genco Gulan[permanent dead link]. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
- ^ RHIZOME: The Android Statue, Genco Gulan. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
- ^ RHIZOME: The Great Conjugation, Genco Gulan. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
- ^ ALAÇATI KIRMIZI ARDIÇ GALERİ Archived 26 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
- ^ Gibbons, Fiachra. (13 June 2006) Istanbul set to stamp its culture credentials - Arts & Leisure. The New York Times (International Herald Tribune). Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- ISBN 978-3868952049
- ^ Lubelski, Abraham. (22 December 2006) Contemporary Istanbul Archived 11 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine Art Fairs International. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- ^ Arikonmaz, Piril Gulesci (2 February 2012)'Ben bir müzeyim' Haberturk (In Turkish). Retrieved 1 June 2012
- ^ Lev, Julia. (27 January 2011) Plato's new exhibition brings net-art to the fore Archived 12 June 2018 at the Wayback Machine. Today's Zaman. Retrieved 6 June 2012.
Bibliography
- ISBN 978-3868952049
- ISBN 9789944016001
- Genco Gulan. Portrait of the Artist as the Young Man: (After James Joyce) CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. ISBN 978-1481942423
- Genco Gulan. De-constructing the Digital Revolution: Analysis of the Usage of the Term "Digital Revolution" in Relation with the New Technology, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing (12 November 2009). ISBN 978-3838320472
External links
- Genco Gulan at IMDb
- Official Web site gencogulan.com
- The Change in Art: Genco Gulan at TEDxModa
- Galeri Artist, Istanbul, Berlin.
- Banff Centre, Banff, Canada.
- Rhizome, at the New Museum, NY.
- Java Museum, Koeln interview. Archived 13 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum
- Official website of the Web Biennial
- LABS : Leonardo ABstracts Service
- The King beheading himself. Written by Sabine Küper on 21 June 2013.
- Goethe Institute
- Saatchi Online
- Review by Nancy Atakan, Phd. Archived 24 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- Review by Marcus Graf at Visual Art Beat Magazine. Archived 30 August 2019 at the Wayback Machine
- Employee of the Month
- Turkish Culture and Art
- Identity as a Myth, article by Dr. Graf