Ozge Samanci

Özge Samancı (born 21 July 1975 in İzmir)[1] is a Turkish American artist, and professor at Northwestern University.[2] She creates media art installations and graphic novels. Her art installations merge computer code and bio-sensors with comics, animation, interactive narrations, performance, and projection art.[3][4] Her installations use media arts to break down people's mental and emotional barrier for hearing about environmental issues.[5] Her graphic novels combine drawings with three dimensional objects.[6]

Ozge Samanci
Born (1975-07-21) July 21, 1975
İzmir, Turkey
CitizenshipTurkish American
OccupationArtist, author, professor

She is the author of Dare to Disappoint (Farrar Straux Giroux, 2015)[7] autobiographical graphic novel.

She won a 2017 Berlin Prize[8] and 2020 Distinguished Alumna Award[9] from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Life

Ozge Samanci was born in Izmir in 1975.  The daughter of two teachers, she grew up in the coastal city of Izmir, at a time when Turkey was under the control of a military dictatorship.[10]

She studied Mathematics at Boğaziçi University and published cartoons at humor and film magazines of Turkey. With the help of her cartoons, she discovered her interest in visual arts. She moved to United States pursue her Ph.D. on Digital Media at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her interest in comics expended into visual arts and experimental media and she received Andrew Melon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Art Practice Department of University of California, Berkeley.

Graphic Novels and Comics

Dare to Disappoint Ozge Samanci's graphic coming-of-age memoir. Her story takes place after the third military coup leading to Turkey's rapid change to neo-capitalism from 1980 to 2000. After going through the struggle of obtaining a degree in Mathematics to please her father and society she become a cartoonist and artist. Her narration makes readers also sympathize with the plight of her parents, who had their own early tragedies and are models of fortitude as they raise two daughters in trying times.[11][12] Dare to Disappoint is translated to five languages. Her drawings appeared in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Slate Magazine, The Huffington Post, Guernica, The Rumpus.

Ordinary Things is an online comics journal with more than two thousand comic-collage images depicting Samanci's daily observations.

Interactive Art Installations

In You Are the Ocean, wherein participants can, quite literally, control the installation's oceanic imagery with their minds.[13]

Fiber Optic Ocean composes music generated by live data coming from the live sharks and human use of internet.

Her interactive installations have been exhibited internationally, including Siggraph Art Gallery, FILE festival, Currents New Media, The Tech Museum of Innovation, WRO Media Art Biennial, Athens International Festival of Digital Arts and New Media, Piksel Electronic Arts Festival, and ISEA.[14]

Awards

In 2017 Samanci won Berlin Prize with her graphic novel project Not Here but Everywhere. Her graphic novel Dare to Disappoint won Middle East award and 30th Annual New York Book Show Award and she was guest at Berlin Literature Festival.[15] She is the recipient of Berlin Prize and LMC Distinguished Alumna Award.

References
  1. Paul, Caine (January 4, 2016). "Northwestern Professor Tells Turkish Coming-of-Age Story". WTTV.
  2. Genç, Kaya (2015-12-17). "The Graphic Memoir Comes to Turkey". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  3. "Drawing Outside the Box: Northwestern Magazine - Northwestern University". www.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  4. "Özge Samanci — internationales literaturfestival berlin". ilb.e-laborat.eu. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  5. "From Ego to Eco". Chicago Humanities Festival. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  6. Kois, Dan (2016-01-08). "Growing Up Eating Black-Market Corn Flakes in Turkey". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  7. "Dare to Disappoint | Ozge Samanci | Macmillan". US Macmillan. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  8. "Özge Samanci". American Academy. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  9. "Distinguished Alumni Awards at the College of Liberal Arts - Georgia Tech". Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  10. Russo, Maria (2015-12-09). "A Different World (Published 2015)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  11. Russo, Maria (2015-12-09). "A Different World (Published 2015)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  12. Bromwich, Kathryn (2016-02-14). "On my radar: China Miéville's cultural highlights". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  13. Parazzoli, Grace (Jun 8, 2018). "Making waves: Ozge Samanci and Gabriel Caniglia's "You Are the Ocean"". Pasatiempo.
  14. "About". Özge Samancı. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  15. Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche. "Kunst - zum Trotz! Kultur zwischen Widerstand und Zensur in der Türkei | DW | 06.10.2016". DW.COM (in German). Retrieved 2020-10-11.
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