tr-act.info by Arzu Ozkal Telhan, in collaboration with Bogdan Marian and Tom Leonhard (PHP support) - tr-act.info is a dynamic site, aiming to screen the opposition among major ideologies (secular / religious) coexisting in Turkey, which are highly affected by the current condition of the worldwide conflict in eastern and western power structures. The website examines the fundamental on-line publications of each group every day and looks for combinations of recurring phrases (i.e. political party names, commander names…etc) in the daily news. According to the data it parses, it generates a screen where these recurrences are represented in quantity with a set of graphical items.

Defixed (2006), with Orkan Telhan, is a web based game designed for “Rejection Episodes“. It is played by two people with Turkish and Flemish interfaces. Each player is asked first to choose four images that correspond to the words “Margin”, “Sound”, “Habbit”, “Bond”, “Next” for their culture and one for the other side. The goal of this play is to raise awareness to cultural and social cliches and help each side destabilize their own perception of the other.

Arzu Ozkal Telhan is a Turkish born media artist and designer. She received her BFA in graphic design from Bilkent University, and her MFA from Department of Visual Studies at University at Buffalo, SUNY. She has exhibited internationally at various festivals and venues including Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, CEPA Gallery, British Council Art Gallery in Ankara, Galeria Zero, International Video Art Festival in Public Spaces of Russia, Buffalo Infringement Festival, Extrapolations, Cologne Online Film Festival. Upcoming exhibitions include a solo show in Istanbul at The Akbank Center for Culture and the Arts.