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A “Parisien” girl, a Japanese boy, and I, worked on a mini-olympic project which is on representing the last (2020 Tokyo), the current (Paris 2024), and the next (Los Angeles 2028) olympic games, for the Cultural Olympiad 2024. The work consists of the most used words for each event on the internet. The fonts of…
After Albertville 1992 and Lillehammer 1994, which had just 2 years in between, Tokyo and Paris olympics became the second consecutive duo in being closest to one another. To make a contribution to the cultural spirit of the games, we 3 (Adeel, Elodie, and Deniz) are presenting a visual work covering Japanese, French, and English….
Coming up of the new year was certainly a need, where 2023 brought up heavy disasters and wars around the globe..🌑 2024 will hopefully be a better year, personally, starting with a “❤️-beat”, which is a joint project with AI Ethics Lab, and will go on with academic studies in Boston starting in early spring.. The…
As a “Born in a rabbit year”, 2023 started with a giant step with developing my score from 59 minutes to 46 in the open water swimming contest which was held in my hometown Datça that I participated for the first time + also the first time to swim in winter; in January. Winter 2023 had…
Fall started with the revenge of the Marmaris open water competition by completing the track under 1 hour (59:57🙂) at Palamutbükü, where my randomly selected competition number -311- was special for me in many ways. We also celebrated our 1st year with Buket🐢 with a mini picnic accompanied with his pretty novel nature walk in…
Although I thought that 2022 was going to be an İstanbul year, it is again a Datça year⛱ with a short delay at My First Artwork..😶 The delay brought in a surprising work, the Knidos ARt Project🏛, with two “very new” friends -Orhun and Ayşenur- where the study may lead to surprisal results by the…
This year is the year of the “Tiger” in the lunar calendar, just as its relative “Pars” in the ancient Turkish calendar with 12 animals..🐆 As the year is characterized by a revival of dynamism, the first part of 2022 includes the activation of My First Artwork🎨, and the end is expected to come with…
Due to 2022’s being an even number, it seems it will be an “İstanbul year” [see: About🙂]. In the ordinary course of things, the beginning of the year will show up with the activation of My First Artwork🎨 and the end will come with Ivona🐚 – maybe with an open water competition🏊🏼♂️ somewhere between. Hoping the…
Deniz is an interdisciplinary educator and visual designer living in two disparate locations of Turkey (odd numbered years in Datça – even numbered years in İstanbul). Holding a quartet of degrees from varied institutes of different schools in İstanbul, his studies are naturally interdisciplinary; mainly on education, physics, environment, natural sciences, and digital design. His latest…
“The Recycling Factory Challenge” is a mini software game for children showing the basic steps of the recycling process. In the game, a young animated character goes through a general review of the basics of recycling for getting ready to work at a recycling factory. In the factory, learners command the character to make the…