Özcan Ertek
I am an artist from Istanbul based in Berlin who has professional interest in media and politics.
Acoustic Horizon
Island of things — Summer 2021
Acoustic Mirror
New Wilderness (Course) — Summer 2021
Air Sculptures
Designed Uncertainty (Course) — Winter 2020
Coffee Chronicles
Matters of thinking (Course) — Summer 2022
Das Loop
Poetics of Repetition (Course) — Winter 2019
Devil's Rope: Between Refuse and Refuge
Genius Loci — Winter 2022
Devil's Rope: On a Journey of No Return
Free Projects
Future Visioning
Carte Blanche — Summer 2022
Glocken und Kanonen.
Time Apparatus (Course) — Winter 2021
Melting Soundscapes
Micro/Macro (Course) — Summer 2020
The Devil's Rope - The Encounter
Legacy — Winter 2021
Özcan Ertek — Acoustic Mirror
New Wilderness (Course) — Summer 2021
The movements of sound and the acoustic reflections that echo around, forming another movement of time and space, like a ghostly other, bringing to life the life that is. These voices unlock the past, tell the present, and expand the future.
Influencing from ‘’Acoustic Mirror’’ technology that have been used as radar to detect approaching aircrafts, ‘’Acoustic Mirror’’ invites audience to take a journey into the resonance environment created by the kinetic aluminium shape and transistors, which host a vibrant, hypnotic world of sounds and soundscapes from different geographies.
Encoded sounds speculatively articulate the collective history by reflect upon the Futurist Period to stimulate human fears, desires, and hopes in the context of technology. Which sounds from the history have been associated and transferred by science & technology? By which means? How have society and culture appropriated these sounds and means, and how people themselves listened to the objects, machines, bodies and the world they live with?
Özcan Ertek, 2021