About

Gurkan Maruf Mihci is an Assistant Professor at IUPUI Herron School of Art and Design and is pursuing his Ph.D. at the Istanbul Institute of Design (Ozyegin University). He is also a Project-Based Learning Lab Faculty Fellow at Engage Learning Institute at IUPUI. 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. His recent research was awarded by the Herron School of Art and Design Frank C. Springer Family Innovative Faculty Research Award.

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.

Herron professor investigates gameplay to encourage student creativity​​​​​​​