Genco Gulan

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{{Infobox artist

| name = Genco Gülan

| image = Genco Gulan with 4 eyes.jpg

| caption = Self-portrait with 4 eyes. Oil on Canvas. Pekin Collection.

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1969|1|13|df=y}}

| birth_place = Istanbul, Turkey

| nationality = Turkish

| field = Contemporary Art, Painting, Sculpture

| training = The New School

| movement = Idea art, Post Dada

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Genco Gulan (born 1969) is a contemporary conceptual artist and theorist who lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey. His work encompasses a variety of media, including conceptual art, new media, performance art, and photography.

Gülan studied Media at The New School, New York.Weshinskey, Anne. (25 August 2011) [http://www.labkultur.tv/en/blog/fish-or-without-new-media-artist-genco-guelan With Fish or Without]. Lab Kultur. Retrieved 1 June 2012. His art has appeared in the Pera Museum, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, ZKM Karlsruhe, Triennale di Milano, Biennial of Tehran, and Pompidou Center Paris.

Gülan has presented solo exhibitions at Gallery Arts in Berlin and Istanbul, the State Painting and Sculpture Museums in Ankara and Izmir, Foto Gallery Lang in Zagreb, and Artda Gallery in Seoul.

Art

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Gülan is a new media artist.Vito Campanelli e Danilo Capasso (a cura di), Cultura e nuovi media. Cinque interrogativi di Lev Manovich, Edizioni MAO, Napoli, 2011. {{ISBN|978-88-95869-00-1}} who uses text, codes and his own DNA in his art. In a video piece called Tele-rugby, he filmed a female swim team playing rugby underwater with a TV monitor.''Atakan, Nancy (Spring 2006)[http://www.newmediacaucus.org/html/journal/issues/html_only/2006_spring/Sp06_Atakan.htm FROM NEW MEDIA FROM THE PERIPHERY] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120201105154/http://www.newmediacaucus.org/html/journal/issues/html_only/2006_spring/Sp06_Atakan.htm |date=1 February 2012}}. Journal of the New Media Caucus. Retrieved 11 July 2012.

His experimental worksReil, Alexandra. (25 August 2011) [http://artistsvoices.blogs.sonance.net/category/genco-gulan/ Art Following the Trend?.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211074832/http://artistsvoices.blogs.sonance.net/category/genco-gulan/ |date=11 February 2012 }} Retrieved 5 June 2012 include net art, web art, AI generated images, Robot Games, SCIgen papers and online videos.Landi, Ann (1 September 2009)[http://www.artnews.com/2009/09/01/what-they-see-in-van-goghs-ear/ What they see in Van Gogh's ear]. ARTnews. Retrieved 23 June 2012. Gülan uses Boron in his sculptures.Utku, Ahsen (23 April 2011)[http://www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?load=detay&newsId=241773&link=241773 Genco Gulan sends messages to the future through art] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225080222/http://www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?load=detay&newsId=241773&link=241773 |date=25 February 2014}}. Today's Zaman. Retrieved 1 June 2012.

Works

The Android Statue and sketches of Gülan's kinetic marble statue series, Robotic Statues were presented at the Antalya Museum in 2014. Gülan's work with robots in university labs since the mid-1990s has influenced many of his art projects. His artwork Robots, Football and War (RFW) was part of the computer game Balkan Wars, which won an award at the European Media Art Festival in Osnabrück in 1995. His AI-generated play was used in the project YEN! (New) presented at the Pera Museum for the 16th Istanbul Theatre Festival.[http://rhizome.org/announce/events/60358/ RHIZOME: The Android Statue, Genco Gulan]. Retrieved September 15, 2014.

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The Great Conjugation was exhibited at Boğaziçi University's Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences building, Washburn Hall, in 2014. The installation used approximately 1,000 ties of various colors, designs, and brands to create a route spanning all five floors of the building. Viewers were invited to bring their ties to contribute to the installation. The installation was also displayed at the Thessaloniki State Museum of Contemporary Art and the Ankara Contemporary Art Center in 2013. In 2011, Gülan was a finalist for the Sovereign Art Foundation European Art Prize and held his first exhibition at the White Saloon inside the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences building, where he studied Political Science and International Relations from 1987 to 1991.[http://rhizome.org/announce/events/60598/ RHIZOME: The Great Conjugation, Genco Gulan]. Retrieved September 15, 2014.

File:Karate, 2014. Mermer ve polimer döküm. 25 X 20 X 20 cm..jpg

An exhibition titled Swimming Rocks was held in 2014, at Gallery Metazori in Çeşme, Alaçatı, where Gülan spent much of his childhood. The work was inspired by pumice rocks that float on water, found in the Aegean Sea around Çeşme and Alaçatı. Works by his mother, Tezer Gülan, and his grandmother, Saime İzmiroğlu, were also featured in the exhibition. Additionally, Gülan presented his New Landscape series, an interpretation of landscapes as barcodes, and his Digital Ghost series, which involved painting images from his laptop onto large canvases.[http://www.alacatikirmiziardic.com/index.php/genco-gulan ALAÇATI KIRMIZI ARDIÇ GALERİ] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150526072411/http://www.alacatikirmiziardic.com/index.php/genco-gulan/ |date=May 26, 2015 }}. Retrieved September 15, 2014.

Museum

Gülan established the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum as an art project in 1997.Gibbons, Fiachra. (13 June 2006) [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/13/arts/13iht-rcarturk.1962923.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all Istanbul set to stamp its culture credentials - Arts & Leisure]. The New York Times (International Herald Tribune). Retrieved 1 June 2012.

"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."Graf, Marcus. Conceptual Colors of Genco Gulan, [http://www.revolver-books.de/ Revolver Publishing], 2012. {{ISBN|978-3868952049}}

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.Lubelski, Abraham. (22 December 2006) [http://www.artfairsinternational.com/?p=63 Contemporary Istanbul] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070211020415/http://www.artfairsinternational.com/?p=63 |date=11 February 2007 }} Art Fairs International. Retrieved 1 June 2012.

Gülan's monograph, Conceptual Colors of Genco Gülan edited by Marcus Graf, is co-published by Revolver Publishing, Berlin in collaboration with Galeri Artist, Istanbul. His publications are available internationally at libraries such as the German National Library, SALT Research, the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library at Yale University.

Gülan founded the Web BiennialLev, Julia. (27 January 2011) [http://sundayszaman.com/sunday/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=233614 Plato's new exhibition brings net-art to the fore] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612141650/http://sundayszaman.com/sunday/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=233614 |date=12 June 2018 }}. Today's Zaman. Retrieved 6 June 2012. at the turn of the century, served on the Board of Balkan Biennial in Thessaloniki, International Programming Committee of ISEA Singapore in 2008 and was a guest editor for Second Nature: International Journal of Creative Media. He was on the jury for Turgut Pura Art Prize in Izmir and teaches at Mimar Sinan Academy and Boğaziçi University.{{cn|date=November 2022}}

Selected images

File:Genco_at_Pompidou.jpg| Pompidou, From the "I love You series", C-print, Paris, 2007

File:Magic Beans.jpg| 'Magic Beans' 2013. Sculpture with 600 used neckties and a crane, 150m.

File:Art (blue).jpg|Art (Blue), ready-made, 2013.

File:33.3 QR Code Poem.jpg| 33.3 QR Code poem

References

Bibliography

Marcus Graf. Conceptual Colors of Genco Gulan, Revolver Publishing, 2012. {{ISBN|978-3868952049}}
Marcus Graf. [http://www.pandora.com.tr/urun/kavramsal-renkler-dvdli/198364 Genco Gulan: Kavramsal Renkler], Galata Perform Publishing, 2008. {{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

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[http://www.gencogulan.com Official Web site gencogulan.com]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en1G-wdSG2I The Change in Art: Genco Gulan at TEDxModa]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20120315195648/http://www.galeriartist.com/en/index.php?cmd=sanatcilar&id=30&sn=bio Galeri Artist, Istanbul, Berlin.]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20121001180816/http://www.banffcentre.ca/faculty/faculty-member/2874/genco-gulan/ Banff Centre, Banff, Canada.]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20120614105352/http://rhizome.org/profiles/gencogulan/ Rhizome, at the New Museum, NY.]
[http://jip.javamuseum.org/jipblog/?page_id=64 Java Museum, Koeln interview.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130113151716/http://jip.javamuseum.org/jipblog/?page_id=64 |date=13 January 2013 }}
[http://www.istanbulmuseum.org/ Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum]
[http://www.webbiennial.org/ Official website of the Web Biennial]
[http://leonardolabs.pomona.edu/SearchDetails.aspx?UID=30 LABS : Leonardo ABstracts Service]
[http://www.inenart.eu/?p=10260 The King beheading himself. Written by Sabine Küper on 21 June 2013.]
[http://www.goethe.de/ins/tr/lp/prj/art/kue/net/ggu/enindex.htm Goethe Institute]
[http://www.saatchionline.com/gencogulan Saatchi Online]
[http://www.nancyatakan.com/works/53/genco-gulan Review by Nancy Atakan, Phd.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140224214430/http://www.nancyatakan.com/works/53/genco-gulan |date=24 February 2014 }}
[http://visualartbeat.com/self-portrait-by-genco-gulan/ Review by Marcus Graf at Visual Art Beat Magazine.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830001239/http://visualartbeat.com/self-portrait-by-genco-gulan/ |date=30 August 2019 }}
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[http://www.turkishculture.org/whoiswho/visual-arts/video-artist/genco-gulan-1631.htm Turkish Culture and Art]
[http://rhizome.org/announce/events/59990/view/ Identity as a Myth, article by Dr. Graf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150523165014/http://rhizome.org/announce/events/59990/view/ |date=23 May 2015 }}