Burak Arıkan
Burak Arıkan (born in 1976, Istanbul) is a Turkish contemporary artist. His work is research-based, thus generates data and inputs into custom abstract machinery. Arikan is the founder of Graph Commons, a platform for mapping, analyzing, and publishing data-networks. Graph Commons workshop for artists, activists, critical researchers, and civil society organizations are being conducted internationally. One of Arikan's works MyPocket (2008) is a live software system that predicts what the artist buys every day and discloses his spending records to the world. MyPocket was shown in Neuberger Museum of Art New York, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin , and Media Space / FilmWinter Stuttgart, and most recently in the New Observatory exhibition in FACT Liverpool. Arikan is an adjunct faculty in Interactive Telecommunications Program, Tisch School of Arts, New York University. Arikan completed his master's degree at the MIT Media Lab in Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Physical Language Workshop led by John Maeda. Arikan is a member of Alternative Informatics Association, a civil society organization in Turkey focusing on the issues of Internet freedom and digital rights.