EDUCATION

BFA, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, 2003
Koç High School, Istanbul, Turkey 1991-1996

AWARDS AND GRANTS

National Film Board of Canada, Hothouse Project Grant, Montreal 2007
Vancouver Parks Board Artist in Residence Grant, Vancouver 2005
Vancouver Foundation Project Grant, Vancouver 2005
City of Vancouver Community Arts Grant, Vancouver 2005
“Hey Get Out” Youth Project Grant, Vancouver 2005
Banff Centre for the Arts Scholarship, 2004
Student Leadership Education Grant, 2001-2003
Artistic Excellence Scholarship, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, 1999
High School Educational Scholarship 1991-1996

FILMOGRAPHY / PERFORMANCE

New Groove Orchestra & Groove Attic Halloween Show
Visual Performance, Sala Rosa, Montreal, October 31st 2008
(Collaboration with Jenny San Martin)

Anamnesis 1
Installation, shadow performance
PiST, Istanbul September 2008

"everybody sings insight out” performance, 25min
3rd Galata Visibility Festival, Istanbul November 2007
(Collaboration with Celal Eldeniz)

"Cumulus" Animation, 1min
National Film Board of Canada,
English Animation Studios, Montreal, March – June 2007

"613", Live animation / performance, 21 min
Pandemonium, Istanbul, January 2007
 (Collaboration with Jenny San Martin)

"from far it looks like mushrooms", Animated Installation, 3 min loop
Visibility Project, Istanbul, September 2006
 (Collaboration with Alev Ersan)

"(in)animate", Animation interacting with shadow puppetry, 10 min 
“Spatial Poetics V”  Video In Studios, Vancouver,  July 2006
 (Collaboration with Sepideh Saii and Jaimie Robson)

“Daydream”, Animation, 3 min
 Surrey_Cine, October 2005, Surrey Art Gallery

 “in between sips / çay içerken” Animation, 4 min
"Empire's Feast" Video In Studios, Vancouver, May, 2005           
  PH Gallery, New York, NY, May 2005
  Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY, May 2005
     

OTHER WORK (selected)

"Doubt, Pandemonium and Flux", text and illustration
The April Memo: A Cultural Notebook, compiled by Peter Conlin
 Access Gallery, Vancouver, September 2006

"City Comfort", Quilt of cityscape with lights embedded
Quilt Show, Seamrippers Gallery, Vancouver, March 2006

“Architecture for Dreams”,
Solo interactive installation show
The Other Gallery, Banff Centre, Banff, July 2004

“MetaCulture”
“Touch tank” Interactive sculpture; ceramics and water tank
 Roundhouse Community Centre, Curated by Amir Alibai and Paul Wong, Vancouver, May 2004

OTHER PROJECTS / RESEARCH / PROGRAMMING

ISTANBUL BIENNIAL
Educational Programming

ISTANBUL BIENNIAL January – September 2008
Curatorial Research and Technical Assistance

CONTEMPORARY ISTANBUL, Art Fair,  November 2007
Staff Coordinator

10th ISTANBUL BIENNIAL, Istanbul, August - November 2007
Co-coordinator, Guided Tours Program

MEDIA UNDEFINED, International Non-profit Arts Organization, April 2005 - Present
Co-Founder, Associate Artistic Director

WORLD URBAN FORUM, Vancouver, June 2006
“Conversations”, Collaborative Community Art Project,
Associate Director

BANFF CENTRE FOR THE ARTS, Banff, Alberta, April - August 2004
Project Assistant, Sculpture and Media Arts, IntraNation Residency; Practices in Arts and Activism
Project led by Ashok Mathur, Paul Wong, Shirley Bear

BERLIN SENATE ISTANBUL CULTURAL EXCHANGE PROGRAM, Istanbul, 2003
Research Assistant

8th ISTANBUL BIENNIAL, Istanbul, August - November 2003
Tour Guide