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Teaching a GAN the Alphabet

https://vimeo.com/926412174 Atıf Akın’s Teaching a GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) the Alphabet continues a conceptual lineage of artistic inquiry into language, cognition, and non-human communication. The work directly references John Baldessari’s Teaching a Plant the Alphabet (1972), which itself playfully responded to Joseph Beuys’ iconic performance How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare (Wie man […]

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Mutant Time

Mutant Time, as presented in the 17th Istanbul Biennial in 2022, is a survey of Akin’s body of work and research over the past ten years on radiation and archaeology. Over the last decade, Akın has been researching radioactivity, nuclear history and spaces, in his long-term project Mutant Space. For the Biennial, he advances the

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Tepoto Sud morph Moruroa

In his work emerging from a TBA21-Academy expedition, led by Ute Meta Bauer to the Tuamotus in French Polynesia, Atif Akin reflects on the creation of new mythologies analogical to radioactive deformations of code and matter resulting from the 193 nuclear tests that took place in this island archipelago. Tepoto Sud morph Moruroa (2017) consists

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Mutant Space: Archaeological Museum

Atif Akin, Istanbul Archaeological Museum, 2016 Mutant Space spans across vast amounts of time, encompassing past, present and future, from 3 Gya (approximately 3 billion years ago) to 240,000 years from now. The project contemplates radioactive spaces through the investigation and documentation of four sites: Chernobyl in the Ukraine, Onkalo in Finland, the Hanford Site

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Empire Front

Atif Akin, 2015, PA, US online at: http://empirefront.us Atif Akin, 2015, PA, US   Atif Akin, 2015, PA, US   Atif Akin, 2015, PA, US Atif Akin, 2015, PA, US The most offensive effects of mass surveillance, so intricately interwoven into our daily existence, have yet to be fully assessed. Contemporary forces such as war,

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Mutant Space, Metsamor

For more information: http://mutantspace.net/metsamor Atif Akin, 2015, Metsamor, Armenia Atif Akin, 2015, Metsamor, Armenia Atif Akin, 2015, Metsamor, Armenia Atif Akin, 2015, Metsamor, Armenia Mutant Space is a research driven, technoscientifically critical, visual art project about nuclear power and radioactivity. e project visually spans across vast amount of time and space, from BC 3 billion

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Mutant Space, Onkalo

Atif Akin, 2015, Haukijärvi, Finland Mutant Space Onkalo, Atif Akin, Haukijarvi, Finland 2015 Mutant Space Onkalo, Atif Akin, Haukijarvi, Finland 2015 Mutant Space Onkalo, Atif Akin, Haukijarvi, Finland 2015 Onkalo, Finland is another site in the project Mutant Space. The Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository is a deep geological repository for the final disposal of

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When Latitude Become Norm

The wealthiest nations of the world with the highest standard of living tend to be those at the northern extreme of areas open to human habitation – Canada, and the Nordic Countries. Southern Europe has long been poorer than its northern counterpart, as has the Southern United States in comparison to the northeast. Spain and

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