D|MA ALUMNI ART|SCI LECTURE SERIES

D|MA ALUMNI ART|SCI LECTURE SERIES

PINAR YOLDAS

LECTURE

Pinar Yoldas
Tuesday, April 5th, 2016
6:00pm
EDA Room 1250
Broad Art Center UCLA

Pinar Yoldas, a cross-disciplinary artist/researcher speaks about her work developed within biological sciences through architectural installations, kinetic sculpture, sound, video and drawing with a focus on post-humanism, eco-nihilism, anthropocene and feminist technoscience.

Her solo shows include AlterEvolution, Ekavart, Istanbul (2013) and An Ecosystem of Excess, Ernst Schering Project Space, Berlin (2014). Her group shows include ThingWorld, NAMOC National Art Museum of Beijing (2014);Transmediale Festival, Berlin (2014); Tiere und Menschen, Museum Ostwall,Dortmund (2014), 14th Istanbul Biennial (2015) and Renaissance 2.0 at ZKM (2015).

Pinar received her MS at Istanbul Technical University, BArch (METU) and her MFA at UCLA, Design Media Arts. Her book An Ecosystem of Excess was published by ArgoBooks in 2014. Pinar is a current John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation award winner.