Ozan Turkkan: FLORA y FAUNA
Ozan Turkkan: FLORA y FAUNA
Ozan Turkkan:
FLORA y FAUNA
*video installation with sound
Opening:
Saturday, April 6th
6-9 pm
Special Music Event: Saturday, April 13th
6-9 pm
music by Flowers 15, Julia Obst+Friends
and PATCHWERK by Tum Ásh Listening Party
Open Hours:
Saturday-Sunday; April 6-14th
6-9 pm
by appointment: lkuelbscollection@gmail.com
"FLORA y FAUNA" is a multi-layered digital archive research project that focuses on Transitional Forms, Biodiversity, and the fractal geometric structure of biological forms in nature. The project re-analyzed more than two million drawn living forms from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, scanned approximately ten thousand of them, and processed over two thousand using Creative Coding and Artificial Intelligence tools. By extracting and recreating the geometry of these living forms, the project aims to explore the variability of this geometry over time.
Although Transitional Forms are currently used in Artificial Intelligence, it is a concept used in biology within the theory of evolution. It explains the intermediate forms of a creature that lived in water millions of years ago and a creature that lives on land now. Naturally, this has an intellectual dimension, as well as a social and psychological dimension. As a thought evolves, all the in-between forms become Transitional Forms. If we think of this as a process with no beginning and no end, everything exists in continuous Transitional Forms and a constant change.
The main inspiration behind this project is water and its relationship with life and life forms in nature.
Ozan Turkkan's new media practices, which have been ongoing for over 15 years, focus on the fractal geometric structure of nature and the generative system it uses to create itself. Historical archives are a significant part of his research and creative process, as they represent a collective memory. Ozan considers his practice to play a vital role in connecting the old type of archive to the digital archive.
About the artist
Vienna-based new media artist Ozan Turkkan works at the intersection of art, science, and technology. His work is centered on experimental digital media, focusing on generative and algorithmic art, fractal geometry, mixed reality experiences, interaction, and motion as a reflection of the impermanent nature of existence, and human and social behaviour. He uses technology as a canvas to create innovative and engaging digital art installations.
He likes to explore the many-folded boundaries between science, art, and new technologies and combine different media elements in a creative process. Before the first steps in digital media, he studied and practised various art disciplines in Philadelphia, Salamanca, and Barcelona, collaborating with numerous institutions and art centres. After he graduated from The University of Salamanca, he received his Master’s degree in Multimedia at BAU (Escola Superior de Disseny, Universitat Central de Catalunya) in Barcelona, where he lived and worked for many years as a new media artist.
His work has been exhibited in Art Centers, Museums, and Galleries such as; Santa Monica Art Centre Barcelona, Reina Sofia Museum Madrid, Centre of Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci Florence, Torrance Museum Los Angeles, Victoria House London, Lincoln Center NY, Banannefabrik Luxembourg, Europalia Art Festival Brussels, Les Brigittines Contemporary Arts Centre Brussels, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Santral Istanbul, Akbank Art Centre Istanbul, LOOP Videoart Festival Barcelona, Rotterdamse Schowbourg Rotterdam, WUK Vienna, Ars Electronica, Zifergauz St. Petersburg, Künstlerhaus Bregenz…
Living in numerous cities throughout his life Ozan Turkkan has developed a sense of multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism which characterized his works. Complicated structures, conflicting and coexisting colours, and diversity have been parameters to push the artist to stress a complex field that is converging around the art, new technologies, and the sciences of nature.