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Genco Gulan ((:ʤænʤoʊ ˈɟylun) (born 1969 in Turkey) is a contemporary conceptual artist and theorist, who lives and works in Istanbul. His transmedia contextual work involves painting, found objects, new media, drawings, sculpture, photography, performance and video.〔Foroohar, Rana and Matthews, Owen. (Aug 28, 2005). (Turkish Delight ). Newsweek. Retrieved 2012-06-01.〕 His work often carries political, social and/or cultural messages but is never transformed into propaganda. He rejects being modern or minimal. He describes his work as 'idea art'. Genco Gulan studied Media at The New School, New York.〔Weshinskey, Anne. (25.08.2011) (With Fish or Without ). Lab Kultur. Retrieved 2012-06-01.〕 His art has appeared at Pera Museum, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, ZKM Karlsruhe, Triennale di Milano, Biennial of Tehran and Pompidou Center Paris. Gulan has had solo shows at Gallery Artist in Berlin, Istanbul; State Painting and Sculpture Museums in Ankara, Izmir; Foto Gallery Lang, Zagreb and Artda Gallery, Seoul among other places. He has received prizes from EMAF, BP, Lions, and was nominated for and selected as a finalist for the Sovereign Art Foundation European Art Prize in 2011. His net-art pieces have been listed in required reading lists at the City University, New York, Rice University and U.C. Santa Barbara. Gülan has given conferences at Yale, School of Visual Arts, Köln University, Incheon University and the New York Institute of Technology among others. He is in public art collections such as Proje4L / Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul Modern, Museum Ostwall, Davis Museum and The Thessaloniki State Museum of Contemporary Art. ==Art== Genco uses text, codes and even his own DNA in his art. He is a conceptual, contextual new media artist, developing theory as well as practice.〔.Vito Campanelli e Danilo Capasso (a cura di), Cultura e nuovi media. Cinque interrogativi di Lev Manovich, Edizioni MAO, Napoli, 2011. (978-88-95869-00-1 )〕 He specializes in not knowing what everybody else knows. Genco Gulan believes in the artistic future of bio-technology, artificial intelligence, and digital communication.〔Gulan, Genco. (2004) ('Camerica, Puppy Art' ). Artefact GLOCALOGUE. 2012-06-05.〕 In a video piece called “Grundig”, he filmed a female swim team playing rugby underwater with a TV monitor.''〔Atakan, Nancy (Spring 2006)(FROM NEW MEDIA FROM THE PERIPHERY ). Journal of the New Media Caucus. Retrieved 2012-07-11.〕 "If it's not new, it's just media," says Gulan in regards to the importance of novelty. His experimental works〔Reil, Alexandra. (25.08.2011) (Art Following the Trend?. ) Retrieved 2012-06-05〕 include net-art, web art, A.I.gen (generated) images, Robot Games, SCIgen papers and online videos.〔Landi, Ann (09/01/09 )(What they see in Van Gogh's ear ). ARTnews. Retrieved 2012-06-23.〕 Genco uses boron in his sculptures.〔Utku, Ahsen (23/04/11)(Genco Gulan sends messages to the future through art ). Today's Zaman. Retrieved 2012-06-01.〕 After years of work and experience, Genco Gülan's exxhibition 'Untitled' was considered as a résumé of his adventure in conceptual colors of contemporary art. The gallery space (EKAV Foundation, Istanbul) was used in a manner that allowed all artworks “to talk” with each other apart from their unique placement, preventing monotony. Different mediums were being used with a variety of measurements, colors and display styles. Axles, like arteries, feeding the ease of legibility around which the exhibition revolves. Therefore the focal point of "Untitled" is the concept of meaning. Each artwork has its meaning however, even though they belong to different series or they were made in different mediums, create a bigger and much intense chunk of information. The exhibition holding layers of information, ready to be interpreted by the viewer, divided into all works was brought into light in January 21, 2014.〔(RHIZOME: Untitled, Genco Gulan ). Retrieved 2014-09-15.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Genco Gulan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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