Browsing by Author "Selen, Eser"
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Cybernetic narrative Modes of circularity, feedback and perception in new media artworks
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore how second-order cybernetics (von Foerster, 2002) functions in new media artworks, specifically through information, system and user. While formulating the relationship between new media artworks and the discourses surrounding cybernetics the paper analyzes Popp's (2006) Bit. Fall, Wojtowicz's (2007) Elsewhere News and Zeren Goktan's (2013) The Counter, as exemplars of alternative methods of narration. This study further argues that these new media ...
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Displaying heritage in contemporary Turkey
This study is an analysis of the reconceptualization of cultural heritage via its display by contemporary art practices. Through the proposed title the understanding of heritage is reframed as an experience which is intertemporal, inter-generational, and ephemeral, that creates in-between spaces. In the first chapter heritage, today is assessed with a conclusion as to let heritage to define itself can be possible by the artistic ways of looking, displaying and also preserving the idea of ...
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An exploration of space in Murakami's the Wind-up bird Chronicle and after Dark / Murakami'nin Zemberekkuşu'nun Güncesi ve Karanlıktan Sonra adlı eserlerindeki mekânların incelenmesi
Bu çalışma, Haruki Murakami'nin iki farklı eserinin yakın okumasını yaparak, eserlerdeki mekânlar ve karakterler arasındaki ilişkiyi ve bu karşılıklı ilişkili olma durumunun önemini ortaya koymak amacıyla sunulmuştur. Zemberek Kuşunun Güncesi (1994-95) ve Karanlıktan Sonra (2004) adlı romanlar arasındaki benzerlikler bu amaç doğrultusunda incelenmiştir. Bu tezde Henri Lefebvre'nin mekân teorisi üzerinden eserlerdeki mekânların ve karakterlerin birbirlerini nasıl eş zamanlı olarak ürettikleri ...
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Fantasy setting narrative space in the queer cinema of the usa (1990s–2010s)
Fantasy Setting Narrative Space in the Queer Cinema of the USA (1990s–2010s) investigates the origins and functioning of particular choices of setting fantasy elements and non-linear narrative structures in the queer cinema of the United States from the 1990s to 2010s. The study aims to identify a comprehensive counter-culture utopianism in queer cinema with selected examples from American and to a lesser degree world cinema. What is common in the selected films is the notion of escape and the ...
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‘I am here’: women workers’ experiences at the former Cibali Tekel Tobacco and Cigarette Factory in Istanbul
This study presents oral history research which investigated the experiences of surviving women workers from the former Cibali Tekel Tobacco and Cigarette Factory in Istanbul Turkey. For most of its history the factory was home to thousands of workers many of who were women and at times outnumbered men two to one. While the site is now known for the university that it houses photographs and archival records from the early twentieth century reveal the centrality of women in the process and production ...
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Perception, petroleum, and power: Mythmaking in oil-scarce Turkey and Jordan
Oil has been a cardinal driver of economic growth and national development in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. States that produce oil in globally exportable quantities tend to be more powerful than those that do not. Oil-scarce states in the Middle East that neighbor oil-rich states and rely on them for imports create myths to explain their relatively unfortunate geology. This study illustrates and analyzes the myths that people in Turkey and Jordan have created to explain why they lack ...
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“The Public Immoralist”: Discourses of Queer Subjectification in Contemporary Turkey
This study examines the forms of queer subjectification that have been molded through regular acts of gender- and sexuality-based violence against LGBTQ+ citizens as encouraged by the dominant religious and secular discourses in Turkey. Within that context, this article explicates the discursive mechanisms at work in the statements that were made by politicians and journalists between 2002 and 2018. In those discourses, the qualities attributed to nonheteronormative sexualities, such as perversion ...
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The stage: a space for queer subjectification in contemporary Turkey
This article focuses on the role of the stage in complex modes of gender performativity in the work of three Turkish performers: Zeki Muren (1931-1996) Bulent Ersoy (b. 1952) and Seyfi Dursunoglu (b. 1932) a.k.a. Huysuz Virjin [Cranky Virgin]. These three I suggest are the pioneers of contemporary Turkish queer performance. Their performances - both on-and off-stage - are validated through a reiterative absence of queerness in their everyday lives and stand in the midst of various negotiations ...
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Waking Life ve a Scanner Darkly filmlerinde rotoskop tekniğinin kullanımının anlatıya etkisi / Narrative effects of rotoscoping in Waking Life and a Scanner Darkly
1915 yılında Max Fleischer tarafından geliştirilen ve günümüzde hem elde hem de dijital olarak üretimi sürdürülen rotoskop tekniği, oyuncunun filme alınmış performansının projeksiyon yardımıyla cam bir yüzeyin arkasına yansıtılarak tek seferde tek kare olmak üzere görüntünün üzerinden elde çizim yapılmasına olanak tanıyan bir yöntemdir. Yöntem, diğer tekniklerden hareketin çizgi karaktere kopyalandığı süreçte fotoğrafik görüntünün çizgisel form ile bastırılması yoluyla ayrışmaktadır. Bu durum, ...