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Hakan Topal
Hakan Topal is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently Assistant Professor of New Media and Art+Design at Purchase College, SUNY and a graduate faculty member in the School of Visual Arts’s MFA Program. He was the co-founder with Guven Incirlioglu of xurban collective (2000-12), and is known for his research-based〔(Whose Terms? A Glossary for Social Practice: RESEARCH )〕 conceptual art practice. ==Education== Hakan Topal attended Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, where he also grew up. Trained as a civil engineer, during his studies Topal became an active member of the university's photography community, where he organized events, workshops and exhibitions. During these years, influenced by 1970s performance artists such as Chris Burden, Marina Abramovic, and Rebecca Horn, he realized his first art projects and performances. He then decided to concentrate on artistic research from within the Gender and Women’s Studies graduate program at METU where he received an M.S. Concurrently, he worked at METU's Audio Visual Research and Production Center where together with his autonomist colleagues, including Ulus Baker, Aras Ozgun, Ali Demirel, Ozgur Gokmen and Ersan Ocak, they transformed it into one of the first collective new media centers in Turkey. In 2000 he moved to New York City and soon after began working at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York as New Media Projects Manager until 2008. He was responsible for the museum’s Media Lounge, the only dedicated museum space exhibiting new media art projects at the time. He worked on a wide range of technical, conceptual and design projects, produced art works and developed websites.〔(The New Museum archive website )〕 He continued studies in sociology, receiving an M.A. and Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research with a concentration in urban sociology and sociology of art. His dissertation was titled Negotiating Urban Space: Contemporary Art Biennials, The Case of New Orleans.〔(Negotiating Urban Space Contemporary Art Biennials and The Case of New Orleans by Topal, Hakan, Ph.D., New School University )〕
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