Burak Arıkan Explained

Burak Arikan
Birth Date:	28 May 1976
Birth Place:	Istanbul, Turkey
Nationality:	Turkish
Known For:	Conceptual art, Software art, Net Art, Generative Art, Digital Art, Data Activism
Training:	MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.

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.^[1] Arikan is the founder of Graph Commons, a platform for mapping, analyzing and publishing data-networks. Graph Commons workshop for artists,^[2] activists, critical researchers, and civil society organizations are being conducted internationally.^[3]

One of Arikan's works MyPocket (2008)^[4] 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.^[5]

Arikan is an adjunct faculty in Interactive Telecommunications Program, Tisch School of Arts, New York University.^{[6] [7]}

Arikan is a member of Alternative Informatics Association, a civil society organization in Turkey focusing on the issues of Internet freedom and digital rights.^[8]

Education

In 2001, he received Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Yildiz Technical University. In 2004, he received Master of Arts degree in Visual Communication Design from Istanbul Bilgi University.^[9] Arikan completed his master's degree in 2006 at the MIT Media Lab in Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Physical Language Workshop led by John Maeda.

External links

• http://burak-arikan.com
• News: Theresa Everline . Tech for art's sake: (Open source digital software) plus (fake currency) minus (dealers, galleries, critics) equals the Media Lab's subversive experiment on the art market . . July 30, 2006.
• Web site: Sacha Pohflepp . 2006 . Interview with Burak Arikan . We Make Money Not Art . 2010-06-27 . 2010-07-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100710035510/http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2006/10/interview-of-bu.php . dead .
• News: Astrid Girardeau . Le site du jour : La limite des frontières . . October 10, 2007.
• . 1 . °.° noise-and-failure! issue . 2007.
• Web site: Turbulence . 2008 . MYPOCKET (2008) .
• Web site: Greg J. Smith . 2008 . Burak Arikan Interview . Serial Consign . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20091013233951/http://serialconsign.com/2008/02/burak-arikan-interview . 2009-10-13 .
• Web site: Greg J. Smith . 2007 . Meta-Markets: speculating on social media . Serial Consign . https://web.archive.org/web/20080515204702/http://serialconsign.com/node/119 . 2008-05-15 . 2016-12-21 . Web site: Greg J. Smith . 2007 . Meta-Markets: speculating on social media . Serial Consign . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080515010101/http://serialconsign.com/node/119 . May 15, 2008 . December 21, 2016 . Web site: Greg J. Smith . 2007 . Serial Consign.
  • Web site: Kazys Varnelis . 2009 . The Immediated Now: Network Culture and the Poetics of Reality . networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art) . 2010-06-27 . 2010-01-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100103061934/http://varnelis.networkedbook.org/the-immediated-now-network-culture-and-the-poetics-of-reality/ . dead .
• News: Vercihan Ziflioğlu . Conceptual art supplies a mysterious exhibition . . February 23, 2009.
• News: Susan Hodara . 'New Media': Brain Trees, DNA, Receipts ... and Bells . . March 5, 2009.
• Civil Society Workshop Series, Istanbul–Paris, 2009.
• Discrimination Maps. Ayrımcılık Ağları, 2009–2010.
• Web site: Folkert & Atley . 2010 . There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum . But Does It Float . 2010-07-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101027101422/http://butdoesitfloat.com/294497/There-is-hopeful-symbolism-in-the-fact-that-flags-do-not-wave-in-a . 2010-10-27 . dead .
• Physical Language Workshop

Notes and References

1. Web site: Burak Arıkan Ashoka Everyone a Changemaker . 2022-10-28 . www.ashoka.org . en-us.
2. http://teaching.burak-arikan.com/creative-networking/ Creative Networking Workshops
3. http://civilsocietydialogue.blogspot.com NGO Network Mapping Workshops
4. http://www.turbulence.org/Works/mypocket/ MYPOCKET (2008)
5. Web site: Burak Arikan (US/TR) - FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) . 2017-06-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170711033133/http://www.fact.co.uk/projects/the-new-observatory/burak-arikan-ustr.aspx . 2017-07-11 . dead .
6. Web site: ITP People Directory. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100614012501/http://itp.nyu.edu/itp/people/people.php?id=2416& . 2010-06-14 .
7. http://itp.nyu.edu/varwiki/Syllabus/Creative-Networking-F08 Creative Networking, ITP, NYU Fall 2008
8. Web site: Asst. Prof. EKİN BURAK ARIKAN AVESİS . 2022-10-28 . avesis.agu.edu.tr.
9. Web site: 2009-03-14 . Information . 2024-03-28 . BURAK ARIKAN . en-US.