2003-2004

interactive narrative
the role of punctuation marks in the generation of textual meaning - punctuation marks analyzed as metacode of written language- writing thought in a non-interrupted manner - syntax viewed as border between open and closed systems, natural and technical languages - disorder in syntax in postmodern digital art.

postmodern writing
new media narrative viewed as an environment capable of embracing the deterritorialisation of textual meaning - lack of punctuation marks - written meaning becoming a participatory experience between the sender and the receiver - removal of formative structural elements from language creating new becomings in new media art.


2002-2003

media culture
cinema and the city
modern art
jean-michel basquiat and edouard manet
cultures of capitalism
marcel mauss, gift exchange in primitive societies
karl marx, commodity culture - labor theory of value
modernity - alienation - fordism - postfordism- postmodernity
feminist cultural studies
cultural codifications - biological differences between men and women - being masculine and feminine - women in public


2001-2002

film theory
theoratical analysis of films - cinema as social practice - postmodern cinema - heritage films
postmodernism
demolishing reason and logic - human truth - power of language
japanese art
the arts of tea ceremony - zen art
shubun school landscape painting – muromachi period
art and colonialism
orientalist art in france - india, turkey


2000-2001

postcolonialism
ongoing western imperialism on once colonized countries
digital culture
cyberspace - virtual realities – genre of cyberpunk
chinese art
five dynasties landscape painting in ancient china
western art
western art history



quotes from some of my works produced between 1999-2003
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titian, madonna of the pesaro family , 1519-1526 (oil on canvas)
november, 1999
titian was a universal scholar who approximately lived between 1490 and 1570 in venice. trained and influenced very much by bellini and giorgione , titian has always been known as a great Venetian painter. this masterpiece “ madonna of the pesaro family ” concerning the victory over the turks during the venetian-turkish war in 1502 is most probably titian’s one of the most important and famous work of all.

how did five dynasties landscape painting affect subsequent
development in the song and yuan painting?
april, 2000
when the southern song period (1127-1279) started, it was that moment that the academy was instilled with a new kind of lyricism. the great masters of this period; ma yuan, xia gua, mu qi were characterized by the use of their profoundly lyric quality paintings.

a passage to india and its colonial experience
march, 2000
colonialism caused racism, classes divisions in society, damages in personal relationships, humiliation of native people, imported british values and exterminated the colonized country’s social values, reorganised the colonosied country's education system as well as their law and order, made their native tongue english, the new official language of the new land.

gift exchange in primitive societies
october, 2000
in primitive societies people were interacting with each other by exchanging gifts. gifts were necessary means communication for society’s system to be able to function as a whole. in the manner of the gift’s reciprocal, they did more than achieving social interrelation; they had succeeded in creating a public act, which were not protected by any kind of regulation but by their desire to display and share their spirituality only by the means of exchanging gifts.

fashion theory
december,2000
the upper class is forced to invent fashion in order to maintain superiority rest upon an assumed immobility of the social structure. veblen regarded fashion as something nonsensible and exactly because of being nonsensible he said people found the notion of fashion fascinating. for him, fashion was basically a way of demonstrating one’s self in order to articulate his social position as an elite one.

ma–Xia tradition and “shubun school” landscape painting
december, 2000
zen art is probably the most noted style of art that came out of Japan. In japan, zen buddhism infused itself not only into the subject matter, but also into the techniques that are used in creating the artwork.

the arts of the tea ceremony
may, 2001
the tea ceremony, or chanoyu, is an aesthetic pastime unique to japan that features the serving and drinking of matcha, a powdered green tea. although tea was introduced to japan from china around the eighth century, matcha did not reach japan until the end of the twelfth century.

one is not born, rather, becomes a woman
october, 2001
with the idea of the characteristics of masculine gender, we refer to masculinity and with the idea of the characteristics of female gender, we refer to femininity. these are in fact arbitrarily determined issues by the help of taking the biological differences between men and women the essence.

harem suare and heritage cinema
october, 2001
at the level of its visual style and narrative style, there are some correspondences to Higson’s definition of heritage film. the lingering gaze in harem suare exists in the film’s world but does not serve the pictorial landscape, rather it is the rich decoration of the palace, marvelous costumes of harem women, the magnificence furniture or Harem’s architectural settings, the glorious table services filled with world’s most expensive equipments at that time.

report on metropolis
november,2001
the meticulous control over the bodies made the 1920s capitalist mode of production achieve the maximum productivity of the laborers. fritz lang shoots this scene so brilliantly that the audience is left face to face with long-takes where the machines and the workers dominate our whole sight.

edouard manet, concert in the tuileries, 1862 (oil on canvas)
february, 2002
manet’s use of color in "concert in the tuileries", 1862, serves as the major force in the representation of the appearance and the boldness of the objects. the human figures are obviously in lack of details.

jean michel basquiat
april, 2002
graffiti was and still is influenced by a mix of popular commercial culture and inner city economic and social terms. and within the urban multi-ethnic culture of new york in 1980s, basquiat’s greatness was hidden in his extraordinary childish visual language. he had a unique visual vocabulary of symbolic marks and images in his paintings, which somehow reflected aspect of his own life.

edward said
april,2002
throughout the development of the western civilization, the east-orient helped to define west as its contrasting image, idea, personality, and way of life. western world’s colonialism vehicle over east, as the conquest and control of other people’s goods and lands, led them produce an economic imbalance that was necessary for the growth of the european capitalism and the industry.

feminism
may, 2002
On the contrary, aristotle’s view appealed different from plato. he believed in that women were more confined to family because they were less rational, more emotional than men were. there was the idea of woman being the natural inferiors of men. they didn’t have the right or the chance to communicate with the world outside their house.