Selen, Eser

Selen, Eser

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Selen, Eser
E.,Selen
E. Selen
Eser, Selen
Selen, Eser
E.,Selen
E. Selen
Eser, Selen

Job Title

Doç. Dr.

Email Address

Eser.selen@khas.edu.tr

Main Affiliation

Visual Communication Design

Status

Former Staff

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Scholarly Output

19

Articles

6

Citation Count

0

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Citation - WoS: 0
Occupied Experiences Displays of Alternative Resistance in Works by Palestinian and Jewish Israeli Artists
(Routledge, 2017) Selen, Eser; Selen, Eser
[Abstract Not Available]
Citation - Scopus: 4
“the Public Immoralist”: Discourses of Queer Subjectification in Contemporary Turkey
(University of Southern California, 2020) Selen, Eser; Selen, Eser
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 and disease, are perhaps the most widespread means of negating the existence of LGBTQ+ citizens and claiming that their lifestyles are “immoral.” Based on a case study that incorporates the existing historical and sociopolitical background, which props up a heteronormative patriarchal culture, this study critically analyzes the discourses that have emerged in a state of moral panic regarding queer in/visibilities, dis/appearances, and aversions/subversions in the Turkish sociopolitical sphere.
Citation - WoS: 2
Citation - Scopus: 1
Cybernetic Narrative Modes of Circularity, Feedback and Perception in New Media Artworks
(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 2015) Selen, Eser; Selen, Eser
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 artworks employ a cybernetic narrative via modes of "circularity," "feedback," and "perception." Design/methodology/approach - This paper offers a theoretical approach to new media art and cybernetics in order to analyze three select works. Since the works mentioned have diverse takes on the presented concepts each is discussed and analyzed in their frame of production in relation to cybernetics and new media standpoints. Findings - It is significant that these three artists attempt to invert the quotidian into the concept of new media while cybernetics facilitates their interactive art installations. The fully functioning circularity in these works breaks down the linear narrative structure while regenerating a non-linear narrative together with the flow of information, utilization of the systems and the user interaction. In these works narrative functions as a tool for interaction, which is cybernetically generated by the user (human) and the systems (machine). Originality/value - New media artworks at least suggest a possibility of observing contemporary art and its history in the making if not generating it altogether through cybernetic modes of "circularity," "feedback" and "perception." The experience of these artworks for each user differs depending on their choice to either reject or become immersed in the work. The possible sensoria, however, may still be betrayed by the mind's willingness to cooperate or at times by the ability to perceive.
Citation - Scopus: 1
Rethinking Nationalist Ethno-Racist and Gendered Myths: an Art Historical Take on Minoritarian Variations From Turkey
(Taylor & Francis, 2017) Selen, Eser; Selen, Eser
[Abstract Not Available]
Mediating Eversion :an Analysis of Virtual Reality in Bodily Experience
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2016) Andıç, Atanur; Andıç, Atanur; Selen, Eser; Selen, Eser
This study is an analysis of perceptual and behavioral understanding of audio-visual mediations from the subject’s (user/viewer) perspective. The aim is to analyze the processes in the perception of the content and form of the media as well as how their physical mass are received. in the tracked evolvement of media the concept of “eversion” by Marcus Novak is introduced to analyze the Head Mounted Display (HDM) media as they are more adaptable to their subjects. Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s understanding of perception and existence are being used in defining the notion of experience. The thesis states that the subjects in experience of the HMD media perceptually are in control of the narrative while being re-embodied through the spatial elements of polysemous content. in the conclusion how spatiality of content become a performative value is reached.
Citation - Scopus: 0
Occupied Experiences: Displays of Alternative Resistance in Works by Palestinian and Jewish Israeli Artists
(Taylor & Francis, 2016) Selen, Eser; Selen, Eser
[Abstract Not Available]
Citation - WoS: 1
Citation - Scopus: 2
The Impacts of Processes of Digitalization on the Reception of Contemporary Art in Turkey During Covid-19
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2023) Selen, Eser; Akın, Afife İdil; Sunam, Aylin; Selen, Eser; Akin, Afife Idil; Audry, Aylin Sunam; Bicakci, Hilal; Kaplan, Arda
During the Covid-19 pandemic, internet-based technologies have become a lifeline for artists, art professionals, and audiences. The widespread usage of digital formats and techniques in the production and presentation of artworks has made contemporary art practices more accessible and thus open to being experienced. On that point, we ask: How has contemporary art, which rapidly shifted to digital platforms soon after the outbreak of the pandemic, been received in light of these transformations? By means of an online survey (N = 627), we examined the art-viewing habits of contemporary art audiences in Turkey, exploring how they have changed in the course of the pandemic and how that shift has been reflected in their experiences. Our findings reveal that while audiences have been willing to engage with online art content, the virtual realm cannot and will not be able to replace the physical experience of going to art venues in person.
Fantasy Setting Narrative Space in the Queer Cinema of the Usa (1990s–2010s)
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2016) Küçük, Ahmet Serdar; Selen, Eser; Selen, Eser
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 creation and utilization of alternative spaces in which queer-identified characters can take refuge. in the context of the study escape and alternative spaces are associated with revolutionary practices in light of arguments that are derived from the work of Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari José Muñoz and to some extent Marc Augé. The selection of films which also includes some queer classics such as The Living End The Watermelon Woman and Shortbus are assessed through a combination of formalist and contextualist approaches. The formal analyses of the films concentrate on various queer film settings ranging from the road and the stage to the prison and the concentration camp as well as several counter-narrative strategies such as parody pastiche and narrative intransitivity along with particular uses of miseen- scène camera movements sounds editing choices characterization and genre. Special attention is given to cultural and historical context and the representation of sexuality race gender and class is taken into consideration. The study reveals the special ways in which queer films give a critique of heteronormativity racism class inequality commodity culture and nuclear family as well as mainstream film production which denies or suppresses the queer existence.
Citation - WoS: 1
Citation - Scopus: 2
Perception, Petroleum, and Power: Mythmaking in Oil-Scarce Turkey and Jordan
(Elsevier, 2020) Ediger, Volkan S.; Selen, Eser; Selen, Eser; Ediger, Şevket Volkan; Bowlus, John V.
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 oil. In the process, it also explains the attitudes, beliefs, and social norms within these countries regarding oil. In both Turkey and Jordan, public understanding of why the country lacks oil forms a tautology about the relationship between oil and the nation's wealth and development, as well as its political, economic, and military power.
Maker Movement’s Effects on the Democratization of Design Process
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2017) Çeliksap, Burcu; Selen, Eser; Selen, Eser
This thesis examines how Maker Movement democratizes the design process by focusing on technologies and tools used by Makers. The Maker Movement has formed by people from different social-economic groups gather to create new jobs innovate by accessing the open source tools of production. The discourse of the Maker Movement is on the political spectrum because of its contents such as knowledge exchange manufacturing using technology and tools ushering “the new industrial revolution.” (Anderson 2012) The study explores questions such as how society involves itself in this movement? How people communicate and transfer their knowledge? How do the effects of Makers Movement effects on society engagement change the economic structure within society? Lastly how can the new tools for design process in Maker movement be democratized and the roles of designers in this movement? The context of this study invites us to embrace the humanist implications of interaction with technology in the contexts of production design process content sharing accessibility to the tools of production creating small businesses and access/hack of materials utilized and having a vision towards the future of Maker Movement. Maker Movement and the Maker Community might shine a light on our formal values ethics and communication as this study is an ongoing project since the Maker Movement is happening now and is developing and growing every day.