Artist statement & CV
Volkan Dincer is a media artist who pursues his MA in Interface Cultures. After studying painting, he began combining sound and visual arts during his BA at University of Marmara. His interest in electronic media deepened during this period, which became core to his artistic practice as a tool for understanding the environment such as relations between organisms and their surroundings.
His works focus on inter-system relations and ecological problems within a research field that spans a wide range from perception tendencies to symbiotic relationships. Following these his master research is on mineral and energy transformations through the organization ways of an organism. In this research Dincer questions the being organized with mapping the time and controlling the energy and mineral flows.
He continues his artistic production and research in Linz. on Energy transformations and organization through organisms.
His work has been exhibited internationally including Contemporary Istanbul, Ars Electronica(Linz), Pixxelpoint(Nova Gorica), Cairotronica(Cairo),Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and Museum Ludwig e.V. (Cologne, Main Station)
Exhibitions
2024 Rhizomaniacs: Point 48°28′-14°16′ (AT)
2024 Laser Talks in Linz:Lab Songs vol.I (AT)
2024 BestOFF Sommerfrische (AT)
2023 Pixelpoint (SI)
2023 BestOFF (AT)
2023 Sexponential, Arse Electronica (AT)
2023 Ars Electronica Festival (AT)
2023 City & Life Bonvivant (Izmir,TR)
2023 “In The Fragility of Acceptance; Data & Ghosts” KASA Gallery (TR)
2022 Istanbul Digital Art Festival IDAF’22 (TR)
2022 Young Artist Exhibition Museum Gazhane (TR)
2022 One Akaretler (TR)
2021 Contemporary Istanbul 16th Edition (TR)
2021 Şekerbank Openscreen (TR)
2021 BASE21′ (TR)
2021″IEN IMPULSE” Exhibition by Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and Museum Ludwig e.V. (Cologne,DE)
2021 “Mixer Session V” Mixer Gallery (TR)
2021 “OverThinker” TymeLapse Studio
2020 “Volume VI Eco-appetites” Queviring in Quarantine Gallery (AU)
2020 “Sonra” (TR)
2018 “Bitişik” (Marmara University,TR)
Residencys
2023 Istanbul Modern “Young Productions in the Field of Digital Art” (TR)
2022 IKSV Production and research programme/CAP (TR)
2021 “Çek-Yat Film Jam” Filmmaking marathon Nesin Station (Şirince,TR)
2021 Piksel New Media Residency Program (TR)
2021 MisarArt Online Residency (Mardin,TR)
2020 Artigit’I Online Residency (Moscow,RU)
2019 “Locality and Global Discourse” Cooperation with CCA and MÜGSF (Istanbul / SanFrancisco)
Publication