About Genco Gülan
Genco Gülan (born 13 January, 1969) is a Turkish conceptual artist and art theorist whose work spans new media art, performance art, sculpture, painting, and photography. His art explores the intersection of technology, identity, and communication. Gülan studied media and communication at The New School in New York City and has exhibited his work internationally. He incorporates digital aesthetics, artificial intelligence, and interdisciplinary theory into his practice. His work has been shown at institutions including the Pera Museum, Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, ZKM Karlsruhe, Triennale di Milano, the Tehran Biennial, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. In addition to his artistic practice, Gülan has lectured on contemporary art and founded the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum as an independent art project. Gülan founded the Web Biennial and has served on the Board of the Balkan Biennial in Thessaloniki, and the International Programming Committee of ISEA Singapore in 2008. In 1997, he founded the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum as an independent, experimental art initiative. His artwork Robots, Football and War (RFW) was part of the computer game Balkan Wars, which won an award at the European Media Art Festival in Osnabrück in 1995.
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