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GENCO GULAN
(1969 - )Nationality: Turkish
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Literary Agent: Galata Perform
Genco Gulan is a contemporary conceptual artist with a specialization in new media and performance art. He studied Political Science and Art at Bogazici University then he pursued an MA degree on Media Studies at New School, New York. He got prizes from BP, New School, Lions and E.M.A.F, selected as a finalist for European Art Prize in 2011 and got Master Award from Ege Art. His works are presented in museums such as; Centre Pompidou, Pera, ZKM, MAM, Rio and La Triennale di Milano. He participated to grand exhibitions such as; Steirishes Herbst, Ars Electronica, Mediaterra, prog-me, Accente, Balkan Art, Biennial Tehran and Istanbul Festival. His performances are presented at Accente Festival, Duisburg and Istanbul Theater Festival. His works listed in required reading lists at; City University, New York, Rice University and U.C. Santa Barbara. Gulan gave conferences at Yale, School of Visual Arts, Koln University and New York Institute of Technology. He is in art collections such as Istanbul Modern, State Museum of Contemporary Art Thessaloniki, Davis Museum Barcelona and Museum Ostwall Dortmund. Genco Gulan was in the Programming Committee of ISEA Singapore and founder of the Web Biennial. Currently he teaches at Mimar Sinan Academy and Bogazici University.
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below is a list of Genco Gulan's plays - click on a Play Title for more information
Romeo and Eliza 011Romeo and Eliza 011
Synopsis:
A virtual reality, multi lingual private chat room with 4 Avatars: ROMEO, ELIZA 011, JULIET and GENCO GULAN. They chat together in the same room, in pairs. The couples ROMEO and ELIZA 011, JULIET and GENCO GULAN chat separately. The pairs talk quickly after each other, followed by a pause, as if their lines are related. The text of "ROMEO and ELIZA 011" is created exclusively on the Internet. The author utilized the scenes from "ROMEO and JULIET", where the couple seems to be communicating. Genco Gulan deconstructed these paragraphs into sentences and then, used these lines -as data- to generate new sentences. The author used A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) robots to create "artificial dialogues". For the project author developed two AI chat bots. Still he utilized a total of six robots, three robots for each person, to create the play. The additional robots (that which are listed in the references section) utilized the Internet -as a database- hence add a different dimension to the project. Classical Eliza chat bots, use question sentences and create a feeling of a dialogue but not a real one. As a coincidence many of the William Shakespeare's lines end with a question mark.
Notes:
The play is mostly in English. However this is a multi lingual play. It contains Turkish and many other languages. You may keep them as it is OR some of these parts may be translated into other native languages, for example Spanish, if needed. And again the text contains many non Latin letters and signs. You may use a text to speech engine to convert these parts into sounds.
1st Produced:
Galata Perform, Istanbul TR 2007
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Genre:
Experimental/ New Media Art
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 2 Other: text
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