Özge Çelikaslan
Özge Çelikaslan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Media Studies program at Braunschweig University of Arts. Her research focuses on collaborative, activist archival networks, and digital commoning practices. She was the former artistic director of KozaVisual (Istanbul, Ankara 2007-2014) a platform for collective video research methodologies, visual ethnography of local and urban transformation, political conflicts in border zones, and autonomous trans-media. In the past, she was the co-founder and a member of art/activist/archive collectives: Artıkişler, Videoccupy, and vidyokolektif. She participated in Video Vortex #10, 2014; Istanbul Biennial, 2015; Transmediale 2016, The Whole Life Academy (HKW Berlin, 2019-2022) among a wide range of art and academic projects, exhibitions, panels, and festivals as a scholar, artist, and curator. Co-edited the books; 'Surplus of Istanbul’ (2014, free pub.) and ‘Autonomous Archiving’ (2016 epub, 2020 book, dpr-barcelona) and has contributed to publications on film, video, activism, and archiving. She is co-founder of the digital media archive of social movements https://bak.ma
Session
Özge Çelikaslan engages in several archive initiatives in Turkey and Europe. In her talk, she will discuss her collective practices regarding activist archiving, digital technologies and accessibility, archival care and affect, obsolete media, and political nostalgia. Çelikaslan is a PhD candidate at the Braunschweig University of Art. She was a member of several film and video collectives. Her works were shown in biennials and festivals, recently at the 17th Istanbul Biennial. She is co-founder of the digital media archive of social movements bak.ma.