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INTERVIEW
Post-Reality Art in a Post-truth World: Alkan Avcıoğlu on his Work
In this interview, Alkan Avcıoğlu discusses his artistic journey, rooted in film and narratology, which deeply informs his current work with artificial intelligence. His background spans film criticism, narratology, digital painting, and music, with a long-standing fascination for the cinematic and narrative possibilities within visual arts. Alkan describes how his years in the film industry, curating festivals, designing movie posters, and teaching narrative theory have shaped his unique approach to image-making, resulting in a cinematic quality that permeates his AI-generated pieces. Now based in the rural outskirts of Istanbul, he explores new artistic horizons by combining technology with philosophy. Alkan's work critiques the alienation of modern life, using themes of abundance and repetition to reflect on consumerism and digital overconsumption. He comments on how technology, originally a tool for liberation, has entrapped society in cycles of endless consumption and conformity. Influenced by thinkers like Baudrillard and artists such as Burtynsky and Gursky, he seeks to capture the paradoxes of hyperreality, where simulated images replace authentic experience. Through AI, he constructs layered images that reveal the absurdity of our post-truth era, mirroring a world overwhelmed by digital devices and mass-produced identities.
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