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Burak Arıkan (born in 1976, Istanbul) is a Turkish contemporary artist. His work is based on complex networks and thereby generates data and inputs in the custom abstract machine. Arikan is the founder of Graph Commons, a platform for mapping, analyzing and publishing data-networks. Graph Commons workshop for artists, activists, critical researchers, and civil society organizations are being conducted internationally.

One of Arikan's works MyPocket (2008) is a live software system that predicts what the artist buys every day and discloses his spending records to the world. MyPocket was shown in Neuberger Museum of Art New York, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, and Media Space / FilmWinter Stuttgart, and most recently in the New Observatory exhibition in FACT Liverpool.

Arikan is an adjunct faculty in Interactive Telecommunications Program, Tisch School of Arts, New York University.

Arikan is a member of Alternative Informatics Association, a civil society organization in Turkey focusing on the issues of Internet freedom and digital rights.

Education

In 2001, he received Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Yildiz Technical University. In 2004, he received Master of Arts degree in Visual Communication Design from Istanbul Bilgi University. Arikan completed his master's degree in 2006 at the MIT Media Lab in Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Physical Language Workshop led by John Maeda.

References

1. "Burak Arıkan | Ashoka | Everyone a Changemaker". www.ashoka.org. Retrieved 2022-10-28.
2. http://teaching.burak-arikan.com/creative-networking/ Creative Networking Workshops
3. http://civilsocietydialogue.blogspot.com NGO Network Mapping Workshops
4. http://www.turbulence.org/Works/mypocket/ MYPOCKET (2008)
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6. "ITP People Directory". Archived from the original on 2010-06-14.
7. http://itp.nyu.edu/varwiki/Syllabus/Creative-Networking-F08 Archived 2010-06-20 at the Wayback Machine Creative Networking, ITP, NYU Fall 2008
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External links

• http://burak-arikan.com
• Theresa Everline (July 30, 2006). "Tech for art's sake: (Open source digital software) plus (fake currency) minus (dealers, galleries, critics) equals the Media Lab's subversive experiment on the art market". The Boston Globe.
• Sacha Pohflepp (2006). "Interview with Burak Arikan". We Make Money Not Art. Archived from the original on 2010-07-10. Retrieved 2010-06-27.
• Astrid Girardeau (October 10, 2007). "Le site du jour : La limite des frontières". Escrans/Libération.
• "°.° noise-and-failure! issue". Junk Jet (1). 2007.
• "MYPOCKET (2008)". Turbulence. 2008.
• Greg J. Smith (2008). "Burak Arikan Interview". Serial Consign. Archived from the original on 2009-10-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
• Greg J. Smith (2007). "Meta-Markets: speculating on social media". Serial Consign. Archived from the original on 2008-05-15. Retrieved 2016-12-21.Greg J. Smith (2007). "Meta-Markets: speculating on social media". Serial Consign. Archived from the original on May 15, 2008. Retrieved December 21, 2016.Greg J. Smith (2007). "Meta-Markets: speculating on social media". Serial Consign. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
• Kazys Varnelis (2009). "The Immediated Now: Network Culture and the Poetics of Reality". networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art). Archived from the original on 2010-01-03. Retrieved 2010-06-27.
• Vercihan Ziflioğlu (February 23, 2009). "Conceptual art supplies a mysterious exhibition". Hürriyet Daily News.
• Susan Hodara (March 5, 2009). "'New Media': Brain Trees, DNA, Receipts ... and Bells". The New York Times.
• Civil Society Workshop Series, Istanbul–Paris, 2009.
• Discrimination Maps. Ayrımcılık Ağları, 2009–2010.
• Folkert & Atley (2010). "There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum". But Does It Float. Archived from the original on 2010-10-27. Retrieved 2010-07-14.
• Physical Language Workshop

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
• Living people
• Turkish contemporary artists
• Turkish conceptual artists
• Turkish digital artists
• 1976 births
• Tisch School of the Arts faculty
• MIT Media Lab people