Gurkan Maruf Mihci is an Assistant Professor at IUPUI Herron School of Art and Design and a Project-Based Learning Lab Faculty Fellow at Engage Learning Institute at IUPUI. He has his Ph.D. at the Istanbul Institute of Design (Ozyegin University) in Design, Technology, and Society. He has his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Graphic Design (Bilkent University) and a Master of Arts in Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design (Sabanci University) with a concentration in Audio Visual Noise and Glitch. After he graduated, he taught communication design and foundation of art classes at Kadir Has University and Izmir University of Economics for nine years. He also has a Central European University Graduate Certificate in Culture and Politics and Maker Teacher Certificate in Robotics and 3D Printing.
He has IUPUI EMPOWER and IAHI Fellowship (diversity) funding. The Herron School of Art and Design Frank C. Springer Family Innovative Faculty Research Award awarded his recent research.
He presented his research at conferences. Most recent; I World Cinema International, WOCICO, Madrid, Spain Design History Society 2021 Memory Full? Basel, Switzerland, Association of Adaptation Studies Conference, Edinburgh, UK, Cultural Literacy Everywhere 2021: Playfulness, London, UK, Media in America, America in Media, Poland Fifteenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices, Monterrey, Mexico, “A Celebration of Superheroes” DePaul Pop Culture Conference, USA, and *B-FILM PGR SYMPOSIUM* - University of Birmingham, UK.
He is a board member of the World Listening Project and a member of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, Cultural Literacy Everywhere, Adaptation Studies, and AIGA. He exhibited his collective and individual audiovisual art and media work in festivals and exhibitions such as; CUVO Festival, Madrid, Spain, Gallery 263; Boston, USA, Distopya Sound Art Festival; Istanbul, Turkey, Radio Zero Festival; Porto, Portugal, Monsters International; Montreal, Canada, Animatu Digital Animation Festival; Portugal, Conde Duque; Madrid, Spain, Mestre Film Fest; Venice, Italy, FILE – Electronic Language Festival; Sao Paulo, Brazil, 0090; Antwerp-Mechelen, Belgium, Greenpeace Artist onBoard Residency Program; Turkey, AkSanat Contemporary Artist Competition; Turkey, 10th Istanbul Biennale; Istanbul, Turkey, Apartment Project; Berlin, Germany, Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival.
contact: gmihci@gmail.com
Press
2022
2021
2019
Wicked Local Cambridge: Light vs Dark at Gallery 263
Dystopie Sound Art Festival- Sanatatak
2017
ArtUnLimited: Moving Atelier
Panaroma KHAS: Dogu Ekspresi
2016
TRT Yeni Medya: Yeni Medya ve Tasarim
HECE: Dijital Kültür: Ses Peyzaji
Zero Istanbul: Greenpeace Sergisi
Panorama KHAS: Egitici Robot Oyuncaklar
Acik Radyo-Acik Mimarlik: Derinkuyu Yeralti Sehri
Creative Disturbance: Anahtar Sözcükler: Ses ve Şehir
2015
Akbank Sanat: Aksanat Contemporary Artists Prize Exhibition
Artful Living: Aksanat Gunumuz Sanatcilari Odulu
Radikal: Aksanat Gunumuz Sanatcilari Odulu
2014
Landescape Art Press: Interview
Panaroma KHAS: Egitici Mobil Uygulamalarda Tasarim
2012
Sabah: Oda ve Adam
Haber Turk: Oda ve Adam
Milliyet: Oda ve Adam
2011
Streaming Festival: Interview
SoundLAB: Interview