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The industrial archaeology site of Çubuklu Silos becomes the object of artistic exploration in Atif Akin’s site-specific media installation. These vertical, circular buildings, once used for grain or fluid storage constitute the form and medium of the installation. Spanning across the five silos, the work operating in the z-dimension can be experienced both outdoor and […]

Teaching an alphabet to a GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) is attached to an art-historical lineage. Baldessari’s 1972 work titled “Teaching a Plant the Alphabet” was once described by Coosje van Bruggen as “quite perverse, futile, a conceptual exercise” in its time. It was an absurdity about learning and recognition. In this video, Baldessari extends a

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

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

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

Atif Akin, 2016, Istanbul, Turkey Apricots from the Damascus Room is an installation took place in the context of Apricots from Damascus exhibition in İstanbul. Within this context, İstanbul serves as a central hub and a backdrop to regional geopolitics. Although it never visually appears in, the city is physically and historically in the center

This trilingual publication is designed and produced as the sixth issue of the zine series titled Apricot from Damascus. The series consisted of sixteen issues and aimed at engaging publication as an artistic practice in an effort to connect through cultural commons, or the shared interdisciplinary knowledge acquired by varied communities. Zines are published in

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,

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

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