About me

Hi

My name is Onur Comlekci. I'm an artist from Ankara- Turkey. I use technology as my artistic medium and I use techniques like creative coding, AR/VR, AI, machine learning / artificial intelligence, cg animation, motion capture, 3d scanning/3d printing. I also make presentations and workshops about art and technology.I continue my design and new media projects at Nuga Studio that I founded.

Artist Statement

I think that art is a great opportunity for the individual to better understand what is happening around him. Therefore, the development of technology and science that affects our lives in every direction also affects art. During the industrial revolution, the development of optics, chemistry, and mechanics revealed the branches of art such as photography and cinema. Today, many new scientific and technological developments such as artificial intelligence and bio technology affect art in different ways. Maybe they will inspire art movements we haven't heard of. As an artist, it is natural that I try to do something like a color palette with all these developments today because I was born in the middle of the analog and digital age. It is my choice as an self-taught artist to look further or to the past and to use the change of human life in my works with positive and negative aspects. Today, while humanity is driving its own future with technology, I will continue to make my works so that people do not forget their past and universal values ​​during this change.

Bio

Onur Comlekci (b.1977 Eskisehir/Odunpazari, lives and works in Ankara, Turkey) studied interior design at the Faculty of Fine Arts at MUGSF University in Istanbul, graduating 2002. For many years he worked in the field of architectural design. Since 2018, he is working at Nuga Studio which he founded. He is an artist working at the intersection of art, design and technology. He uses technology as his artistic medium and creates interactive media installations, presentations and workshops. His latest workshops are: On October 2018, for Digilogue “Future Tellers” Platform, at Zorlu PSM, he held a workshop “Technology, Art and Senselessness” with a presentation and an interactive artwork. On November 2018, at MEF University, Faculty of Art and Design, he presented “Neuropathy” project which is an interactive sound-installation and gave a presentation about new media art. On March 2019, he made a presentation at Sonar +D 2019 Istanbul festival, called "Everything is Connected".

Thanks

I would like to thank my wife Betim Hayat Comlekci for her support and inspiration.