Prof. Rahmi Aksungur, Rector of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University

Born in 1955 in Izmir. He graduated cum laude from the Department of Sculpture of Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts in 1979. In 1983 he completed his postgraduate study in the same department. His artworks have been exhibited in many personal exhibitions. He participated in several group exhibitions and international art activities. In 2000 he won the First Prize in the History of the Republic Design Artworks Competition and his project has been implemented in Ankara at the State Cemetery. This sculpture project is the first large scale sculpture design in Turkey. 

Awards: Art Festival New Inclinations Exhibition, (Second Prize), 1977; Grand National Assembly of Turkey Sovereignity Monument Statue Competition, (First Prize), 1986; Kıbrıs Karaoğlanoğlu War Cemetery Monument Statue Competition, (First Prize), 1990; History of the Republic Design Artworks Competition, (First Prize), 2000; Sedat Simavi Award, Visual Arts, 2001.

Practices: Tuzla Naval Academy, Monument Statue, Istanbul, 1984; Presidential Residence Relief, Ankara, 1990; Maçka Park of Democracy Marble Statue, Istanbul 1993; Istanbul Stock Exchange Entrance Hall Marble Statue, Istanbul, 1994; History of the Republic Design Marble Statues, Ankara, 2001; Kervansaray Hotel Entrance Hall Statue, Antalya, 2005. 

Teike Asselbergs (born in 1973, The Netherlands) has been living in Istanbul since 2005 and currently works together with Asli Kiyak Ingin on the project 'Made in Şişhane'. For this project local and international artists, designers and architects as well as students from art academies are supported to make work in collaboration with the master crafspeople in the Şişhane district and visualize the districts unique social and production networks. "Made in Şişhane" asks: How can design have a positive role in the sustainable development of a small scale production region? What kind of potentiality do the small scale production regions and the producers have for the designers?

As PhD/DBA candidate at the department of Critical Organisational Studies of the University of Humanistics in Utrecht, The Netherlands, she currently focuses her research on the dialogue between artists and people in organisations. She was guest-speaker at various university courses and conferences and she has been professor at AKI art academy in Holland for two years before she came to Istanbul.

Teike Asselbergs graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (1997) and also did her MfA at the Sandberg Institute (1999) in Amsterdam where she co-founded the art initiative Orgacom (www.orgacom.nl) with Elias Tieleman. Orgacom focuses on visualizing the culture of organisations (companies as well as non-profit organizations) and other groups of people (classes, municipal quarters) through contemporary art. 

Tricia Austin, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, MA Creative Practice for Narrative Environments Course Director

Tricia Austin is a Design Researcher and Course Director at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts in London. She runs MA Creative Practice for Narrative Environments, a post-graduate programme that pioneers collaborative practice among architects, spatial designers, communication designers, curators, writers and project managers in developing meaningful narrative and multi-sensory visitor experiences in exhibition, urban and branded environments.

http://www.narrative-environments.com

She is co-author of “New Media Design”, published in 2007 by Lawrence King Publishing, UK. The book maps the spectrum of career opportunities created by digital technologies in the graphic design industries. Tricia Austin was also co-investigator on a £1m, two-year research project funded by the Technology Strategy Board deploying wireless sensor networks to explore creativity in the workplace. The project fused principles and practice of art, design, technology, social science, business, futures and computing in the research and development of computing-enabled spaces.

Most recently Tricia Austin co-founded "Like People Do", a small research and enterprise unit at Central Saint Martins which designs interactive environments that encourage exchange and communication. 

Dr. Gerald Bast, Rector of the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, ELIA Vice President

Born in 1955, studied jurisprudence and economics at Kepler University in Linz, Austria where he graduated in law. From 1981 to 1999 he worked for the Federal Ministry for Higher Education and Research, where he in 1991 became head of the department, responsible for university-organization, university-management and university research contracting regulations. During this period he also was lecturer for university law and university management at the Federal Academy for Administration as well as consultant at the Ludwig Boltzmann Research Society. Since 2000 he is rector at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, since 2003 speaker of the rectors of the Austrian Universities of the Arts, since 2007 Vice President of the Austrian Rectors’ Conference and since 2008 Vice President of the European League of Institutes of the Arts.

Prof. John Butler, Birmingham City University, Faculty of Arts and Design, Head of School of Art; ELIA President

Carla Delfos, ELIA, Executive Director

Carla Delfos graduated from the Theatre School in Amsterdam in 1976 and worked as an actress, theatre director and writer until 1988. She was involved in the organisation of international events and director of the Foundation EuroTheatre from 1987 until 1989. She taught drama at the Theatre School in Amsterdam from 1976 and became a Board member from 1982 until 1989 playing a role in the merger with the Amsterdam School of the Arts. In 1989 she started developing the Founding Conference for the European League of Institutes of the Arts – ELIA – and has been the organisation's Executive Director since 1990 overseeing 9 biennial conferences and many further projects and advocacy activities aimed at higher arts education. In 1996 she was knighted by the French Government as “Chevallier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres”. In 2001 she was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Art by the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen.

Mark Dunhill graduated with a BA in Fine Art at Bristol Polytechnic and MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art in 1977. During the late 80’s and 90’s he was actively involved in promoting the development of a critical approach to art and architecture and participated in numerous conferences, workshops and consultation projects in the UK.

Mark Dunhill has been working collaboratively with Tamiko O’Brien since 1998. Dunhill and O’Brien (www.dunhill-obrien.org) have been involved in gallery exhibitions and project spaces in the UK, Ireland, Holland, Italy and Germany. They have participated in residencies including the British School at Rome and the European Ceramic Work Centre ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Holland.  More recently they have been working at Youkobo Art Space in Tokyo on a 2 month residency developing new work. Dunhill and O’Brien also edit and direct the research portal: www.collabarts.org which focuses on collaborative art practice through essays, links and interviews.

Mark Dunhill is currently Dean of Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London, and chair of the National Association of Fine Art Education. 

Lars Ebert is deputy director of ELIA and project leader of the Erasmus Network for Higher Arts Education in Europe, artesnet europe. He is also co-ordinating the programme of the cultural foundation Castrum Peregrini in his city of residence, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He has German nationality and holds a degree in Theology.

Selected publications authored or edited: Freundschaft – Vorstellung und Bedeutung (Friendship - Conception and Meaning), Amsterdam 2007, Castrum Peregrini Press, ISSN/ISBN:0008-7556; On the move, Sharing experience on the Bologna process in the arts, Amsterdam 2003; Zum Sonntag Esto mihi, Eine Predigt (A Sermon for the Sunday Quinquagesima), Berlin, 2001 ISSN/ISBN:3-933869-02-1; Das Lied der Lieder, Das Hohelied Salomos, Hörbuch (The Song of Songs, The Song of Solomon, Audiobook), Berlin, 1999 ISSN/ISBN:3-933869-01-3.

Sarah Featherstone, Central Saint Martins, Tutor; Featherstone Associates, Director

She has designed projects in the housing, community, cultural, education and commercial sectors. In the last year her practices have been Finalists in BD Young Architect of the Year and Architecture Foundation’s Next Generation Award. She studied architecture at Kingston University, The Architectural Association and the Bartlett, UCL. Prior to setting up Featherstone Associates, she was a founding partner of Hudson Featherstone Architects. She teaches at Central St Martins and has been a visiting critic at various UK architecture schools. She is a CABE Design Panel member and Southwark Design Panel member and an external examiner at Brighton University and the Bartlett. She is also a Civic Trust Award assessor, RIBA Awards 2008 judge, member of the Camden Design Awards Panel and a RIBA President's Research Awards assessor.

www.featherstone-associates.co.uk

Kristoffer Gansing, PhD candidate in Media and Communication at the Malmö University School of Arts and Communication

He is currently researching with the tv-tv collective in Copenhagen on the interface between analogue and digital alternative media cultures. He is also co-curator of the media archaeological festival The Art of the Overhead. He was previously involved in different projects dealing with new settings for local or minor media in urban localities, at Sarai/Cybermohalla in New Delhi, with Oda Projesi in Istanbul and with CUDI (Center for Urban Culture Dialogue and Information) in Vollsmose, Denmark. 

Prof. Melih Görgün, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Artist, "City & Art" Project Coordinator

Born in Sinop, in 1962. He graduated Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts in 1985. He completed his postgraduate study in 1989 in Istanbul Technical University, Institute of Social Sciences and his phD in 1994 Mimar Sinan University, Institute of Social Sciences, Graphic Design Programme. Since 2004 he works as a Professor at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University.

T. Melih Gorgun is a founder and curator of SINOPALE, International Sinop Biennial. He is also a founder of European Cultural Association and art portal Europist.net. He is working as the curator of Siemens Art, Istanbul since 2007. He is advisory board member of Istanbul 2010 Cultural Capital City of  Europe.

T. Melih Gorgun has been exhibited in Berlin, Venice, Dhakka, Augsburg, Wien, Amsterdam, Varna, Lviv, Costanta, Odessa, Tromso, Bruxelles, Tilburg, Paris, Munchen, Salzburg, Weimar, Taranto, Praha, Fredricstad, Ahlen, Seul, Tokyo, Budapest, Gyor, St. Antonio, Caracas, Mexico, Toronto and has been invited to several conferences in the world. He curated exhibitons in Turkey and abroad.

His articles have been published in several newspapers and art magazines. He is the coordinator of the international cooperation project “City and Art”.

Marcus Graf (b.1974) lives and woks in Istanbul since 2001. After studying Cultural Sciences and Esthetical Communication at the Institute for Fine Arts, Aesthetics and Art History at the University of Hildesheim, Germany, he has worked for several institutions of art and culture as a curator, instructor, writer, project manager or artist. Since 2005, he is a Ph.D. candidate in Contemporary Art History, Aesthetic and Art Theory at Stuttgart State Art Academy in Stuttgart, Germany.

Graf is the co-founder and co-director of the in 2008 opened 5533 – IMÇ Contemporary Art Space. In 2007, he was selected to be the co-curator of nightcomers, the official video program of the 10th International Istanbul Biennial. Graf was the artistic director / curator of Aviva Art Program (2006 - 2007) and Under Construction - Tepe Insaat Contemporary Art Space (2005 - 2007). Graf was also the resident curator of Siemens Sanat (2003 – 2007). Currently, he is a full-time lecturer at Yeditepe University, Fine Arts Faculty and a part-time lecturer at Istanbul Bilgi University, VCD Department / Adschool Istanbul Master Program. In 2005, he was an instructor at Istanbul Museum of Modern Art. Since 2004, Graf is curator and consultant of Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum.

Since 2001, Graf is the head of the guided tours department of the International Istanbul Biennial, where he trained the guides and directed the guided tours of the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th International Istanbul Biennial. He worked as project manager and guide in the Protocol Department of the German Pavilion at the Expo2000. Graf was the project manager and curator of the exhibition series sichten (1997 – 2000) and the off gallery Kunst im Bau (1996 – 1998) in Hildesheim, Germany.

She has a degree in German Philology and Theatre. 1963-1988 Research Associate at the Academy of Arts in Berlin (West). Artistic director of "Berlin - Cultural Capital of Europe, 1988". 1989-2003 Director of the Hebbel Theatre in Berlin, artistic director of the "Theater der Welt" festival (1999). 2003-2007 Head of the DAAD's (German Academic Exchange Service) Artists-in-Berlin programme. Since 2006, she has been Vice-President of the Academy of Arts.

Per-Anders Hillgren, PhD/Researcher Malmö University School of Arts and Communication

He has a background in Fine Arts educated at Malmö Art Academy. He also holds a PhD in Interaction Design and is currently working as a researcher at K3 and project manager of Malmö New Media Living Lab. In this lab new media services and products are co-created with a particular focus on audience participation and user-generated content. Visitors at the media and performance center INKONST, which houses activities that include, film, performance, theater, concerts, and clubs, are engaged in developing, experimenting with and evaluating new media formats, services and products, together with researchers, students, artists and professional new media producers.

Founder and director of Gallery BM (1984-1990), BM Contemporary Art Center (1990-2007) and BM Suma Contemporary Art Center (2007-). Coordinated the 1st (1987) and the 2nd (1989) Istanbul Bieniale; Curator and Comissar of the Turkish Pavilion in the 43rd, 45th, 49th, 50th and 51th Venice Biennale. Co-curated the exhibition “Modernities and Memories-Recent Works from the Islamic World” in 47th Venice Biennale. Since 1984 organized international exhibitions involving over 250 artists.

Selected international group exhibitions curated: “Sanat, Texhn” (Istanbul 1992), “Treffen-Kunst” (Istanbul 1993), “Iskele-Türkische Kunst Heute” (Berlin-Stuttgart) 1994), “Orient Express” (Berlin 1994), “Xample” (1995), “Concrete Visions” (Istanbul 1995), “Gold-X-Change” (1997), “Kerteriz” (1998), “Berlin in Istanbul” (Berlin 1998), “Reise durch das Labyrinth” (Berlin, 1998) and “Memories and Modernities” (Istanbul 1998), “Veritas Omnia Vincit” (Istanbul 2000), "In Image We Trust"I,II (2001-2002), "Sheshow" (2002), “The Sphinx will devour you!” (2004). 1997-2000 art advisor and curator of Borusan Art Gallery; 1999-2002 curated five international exhibitions in the WestLB Building; 2006-2007 co-curated The European Patent Office 30th Year Exhibition; “Neighbors in Dialogue”, Istanbul Collection for Ars Aevi (2007).

2000-2005 art advisor and curator of Diyarbakır Art Center. Since 1990, she has participated in numerous international congresses, symposiums and workshops in Europe and the USA. Beral Madra has represented Istanbul scholarship of Berlin Senate since 1995. 2003-2008 founding member and president of AICA Turkey. Currently Visual Arts Director, Istanbul 2010.

Teaching Engagements: Art Management Department, Faculty of Art and Design of Yildiz Technical University (1998-2002) and MA Art Management Department of Yeditepe University (2005-2007).

Since 1980 contributor to various art magazines, newspapers (Cumhuriyet, Radikal) and books: “Identity of Contemporary Art” (1987), "Postperipheral Flux-A Decade of Contemporary Art in Istanbul" (1996), and “İki Yılda Bir Sanat” (Art Every Two Years- Essays on Biennale, 2003). Most recent publications: co-editor of “Komşularla Konuşmalar” (Neighbours in Dialogue) (Norgunk Publishers, 2007); editor of  “Maidan”, Contemporary Art in South Caucasus and Middle East, BM CAC Publication, Istanbul 2007.

www.bmsuma.com

Helen Marriage worked with the cluster management company Artsadmin, touring companies such as the Bow Gamelan Ensemble, Hesitate and Demonstrate and Mike Figgis.

From 1985 she worked with the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT), where she programmed and managed shows from all over the world. In 1990 she set up a £1m arts programme at Canary Wharf. Between 1993 and 2000 she transformed the Salisbury Festival from a small local affair into what The Times called ‘an astonishing success’ developing the programme and increasing the turnover by almost 700%.

Since 2000 she has been working as an independent producer and consultant. In 2002 she produced one of the official Mall pageants for the Queen’s Jubilee.

www.artichoke.uk.com 

Mahir Namur, Dip. Ing., "City & Art" Project Manager, President of European Cultural Association

Born in 1967, Ankara. MA in Civil Engineering, project management  (Istanbul and Vienna Technical Universities). Since 1997 management of several arts, culture and communication  projects in Chameleon Events & PR. Founder member and president of Avrupa Kültür Derneği (European Cultural Association) www.europist.net/akd. Initiator of Europist, European multinational cultural communication and cooperation platform in Istanbul and management of several European projects. Member of the Strategy Group of "A Soul for Europe" Initiative and has been Advisory Committee Member of Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture. Teaches project management and international cultural management in Yeditepe University, Art Management Department and Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. He is the Project Manager of the international project "City and Art".

Born in 1976. He graduated from Graphic Design Department of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University and worked at Medina Turgul DDB Advertising Agency. Since 2003, he has been taking place in applied and theroic graphic design courses as a Teaching Asistant of the Department where he has graduated from. Sinan Niyazioğlu is writing his Phd thesis about iconic brands in fast moving consuming goods field and working as freelance graphic designer.

International organizations, he has participated: “Grafist 7: 7th International Istanbul Graphic Design Days”, (workshop leader, Istanbul, May 2003); “Flag: An Experience of Identification” exhibition, (co-curator, Brussels, September 2004); “Local Plant Global Cemetery” exhibition (curator, 1st. Sinop Biennale, August 2006); “Grapic Design from Turkey”, (workshop leading and seminar presentation, Augsburg, May 2007); “Grafist 12: 12th International Istanbul Graphic Design Days”, (workshop leader, Istanbul, May 2008); “8th International Brain Storming” (seminar presentation, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, May 2008).

Bige Örer has worked in coordination of cultural projects in the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts since 2003. Örer is also working as an independent specialist in the evaluative process of the European Union division for cultural funds. She has been acting as a consultant to several cultural and artistic projects. She is also a member of the project "Capacity Building for Cultural Policy in Turkey".

Born in 1977 in Istanbul and a graduate of Marmara University Political Science and Public Administration in French, Bige Örer did her master's in Toulouse University in Communications Management and completed her second master's in Toulouse Mirail University, Department of Sociology. 

Val Palmer is a Senior Lecturer and the Academic Co-ordinator for the BA (Hons) Graphic Design course at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, within the University of the Arts London.

The course has a unique and international reputation as a world leader in graphic design education and continues to produce some of the most challenging, innovative and influential creatives within the wider design industry. Val Palmer currently teaches on the final year of the course.

In addition to the BA Graphic Design course, Val Palmer has led both the MA Communication Design programme and PgCert in Animation at Central Saint Martins. She is also involved in ongoing practice-based research at the university and is a freelance graphic designer.

http://www.csm-graphicdesign.com 

Thomas Sevcik is co-founder of the creative company Arthesia in Berlin which has become a leader in the field of real space theme worlds for companies and brands. Arthesia projects include the VW Autostadt in Wolfsburg, several pavilions für die Expo 2000, and major fair installations for GM, Siemens and others. Thomas Sevcik is considered one of the masterminds behind the Volkswagen Autostadt in Wolfsburg and has been closely associated with the project management since 1997.

Today, Arthesia advises major companies on the capitalisation of their emotional assets, operating as a kind of applied think tank. For clients such as Deutsche Bank, Swiss Re, Siemens, Schering, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Volkswagen, they develop atypical communication projects to strengthen brands and to enhance the image of companies, organisations and regions. Arthesia is currently working on a long-term new positioning and location development strategy for the Zurich region. Thomas Sevcik is a frequent and popular speaker and panellist at international conferences and has written numerous articles in renowned publications about new communication horizons and in 2003 he was nominated for the Rising Star Award as a future member of the management elite in Switzerland.

www.arthesia.com

Andreas Spiegl, Vice Rector, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Andreas Spiegl studied Art History at the University Vienna and works as lecturer, art critic and freelance curator. He teaches at the Institute for Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna where he is also vice-rector for research and education since 2003. His work is mainly concerned with contemporary arts, media studies, architectural theories, urbanism and cultural studies. Since 1999 he is one of the founding members of the office for cognitive urbanism using exhibitions, lectures and spatial interventions in order to address productions of space and spatial meanings. He published numerous texts on contemporary arts and art theories. Recently he published a book on the commodification of borders titled "Last Minute".

Arts manager, curator and cultural policymaker. She is director and cofounder of the AltArt Foundation in Cluj, Romania (www.altart.org). AltArt is an NGO promoting digital culture that aims to strengthen the Romanian cultural sector and to contribute to the recognition of the impact of culture on societal development. Its projects involve the development of interactive platforms, a series of mixed reality events exploring new cultural dimensions through the use of the Internet and new technologies, workshops, exhibitions, live art events etc. AltArt projects deal with topics related to public space, urban regeneration, identity and social relations in digital space.

Rarita Zbranca Szakats is also a member of the Strategy Group of the “A Soul for Europe” initiative (www.asoulforeurope.eu). She is member of expert bodies such as Team Europe Romania and United Experts (www.unitedexperts.ro). During the past eleven years she has worked in the fields of arts and culture, media, democracy and minority rights for nongovernmental organisations including AltArt Foundation, “A Soul for Europe”, Ethnocultural Diversity Resource Center, Soros Foundation for an Open Society Romania. She studied PhotoVideoDigital Image at the University of Arts and Design Cluj and Journalism at Babes Bolyai University Cluj. 

Snejina Tankovska is a theatre director, Professor of acting and directing and Dean of the Stage Arts Faculty at the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria.

She is actively involved as theatre professional and educator in various international activities and events promoting higher education in the arts worldwide. She is also ELIA  Board and Executive Group member.

Chrissie Tiller works as a practitioner, facilitator, trainer, teacher, listener, speaker, problem solver, enabler, mentor, provoker and shaper - in theatre, higher education, culture and business, alongside her role as Director of the MA in Cross-Sectoral Arts at Goldsmiths College, London University.

After post-graduate drama training she quickly decided she preferred the "other" side of the footlights and worked as a Director and Producer in theatre for young audiences: during which time she was also an award-winning playwright.  Since 1990, when she had a Churchill Fellowship to explore the role of theatre in a periods of social, political and economic change (in Central and Eastern Europe), she finds herself increasingly engaged with the role of the performing arts in a wider world context.  She has an international profile as a passionate and inspirational advocate for the contribution of arts and culture to inter-cultural understanding and is often asked to deliver keynote speeches/chair seminars and conferences in this field.

Currently acting as external creative consultant on the British Council's Creative Collaboration Programme in South-East Europe.

Founded in 2006 by Ian Field and Astrid Kirchner, Urbaneer is a creative hub that facilitates creative urban engagement and exploration. It has grown out of a project called “Living In a Tubemap” which encourages Londoners to be tourists in London – the creative output of which is an online photographic map of London, as well as an exhibition.

Director and co-founder Field has a Masters Degree in Sport History and Culture. His Masters dissertation focused on the evolution of creative leisure activities within the urban environment and their relationship with space and place, subcultural composition, the cultural construction of identity, economic structures and political meaning. He currently works in London in the marketing communications industry.

Originally from Austria, director and co-founder Astrid Kirchner has been in London for 7 years. Her first Masters degree is in “Environmental Sciences and Geography” and she was awarded a schorlarship to spend two years in US as part of her degree. She recently finished her masters in Business Administration, specialising in Creativity, Innovation and Change. She also currently lives and works in London.

Selected Works: 2009 Just Play; 2009 I would Love You If I Had Time; 2008 The Urbaneer Halloween Adventure Experiment; 2008 Urban Street Hunt; 2008 London’s First Ever Knitty Treasure Hunt 

www.urbaneer.net 

Yuriy Vulkovsky is a cultural researcher and practitioner. Since 1994 he has been involved in a number of research and action projects in the field of cultural policy, cultural management, civic participation, social impact of the arts, etc.

Dr. Stephan Schmidt Wulffen, Rector of Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Curator, Art Teoretician 

Born in Witten/Ruhr in 1951. Studied Theoretical Linguistics and Philosophy, German Language and Literature in the University of Cologne, 1975-1982 Theoretical Linguistics and Philosophy in Konstanz University, 1985-1987 Communication Design in the University of Wuppertal. Worked as a free-lance journalist and art critic during 1988-1992, lectured in The University of Fine Arts of Hamburg during 1995-2002 where he is still active as a part-time Professor. During 1992-2000 he was the Director of Hamburg Kunstverein. Since 1998 he is the President of the Advisory Board for exhibitions of the ifa-Institute Stuttgart. In 2000/2001 period he has been Visiting Professor of New York Columbia University Visual Arts Department. Since April 2002 he is the Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Gordon Young is a visual artist who focuses on creating art for the public domain. His work ranges from sculptures to typographic pavements for places as disrelated as government headquarters and village squares. The common denominator for all projects is the basis of relevance to the surroundings. He has written published books.

Awards: 'Grand Prix', Tokyo Type Directors, (First Prize), 2003 for Flock of Words, Morecambe; Art for Architecture Award, Royal Society of Arts, 2001; Civic Trust Commendation and Street Design Award, 2000 for Eric Area, Morecambe; Civic Trust Commendation, 1998; Street Design Award, Royal Town Planning Institute, 1998 for Loudoun Hall Forecourt; Museum of the Year Award, 1998 with Jersey Heritage Trust For Maritime Museum Jersey; Lancaster Civic Society, 1996 for Stone Jetty, Morecambe; Working for Cities Award, British Gas Properties / Arts Council, 1995; Art for Architecture Award, Royal Society of Arts, 1994 for Tern, Morecambe; Hull Civic Society Commendation, 1993 for Fish Pavement; Art in Public Spaces, Northern Electric / Arts Council, 1993 for Gateshead.

www.gordonyoung.net

She graduated from Istanbul Akademy of Fine Arts, Stage/ Costume Design Department in 1971.  Her first professional employment was in Gazete (News) Theatre in 1972. She has  done stage and costume design for various theatres and worked as artistic director for tv shows and films. She has worked at Istanbul Municipality Theatre since 1976 as stage and costume designer. Zeybek has also done play posters, book covers and magazine illustrations. Her work has been shown in national and international design exhibitions. She teaches stage design at Istanbul University State Conservatory.

In 1998 she began a new experimental performance, she calls “Çizdüşüm” (Dreamdraw),as a means of drawing her dreams, that appears as an animated show drawn in life before the audience.

She works as a volunteer for the project Hasanpaşa Gazhanesi. 

Ass. Prof. Emre Zeytinoğlu, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Artist

Born in 1955, in Istanbul. He graduated from the Ceramic Department of the State Academy of Fine Arts in 1980. Since 1986, his work was shown in numerous exhibitions. Since 1988, his articles on arts are published. He writes in Cyprus Afrika Newspaper. His published books: “Groundless Comments on Art” (2008), “Sport in Sleeping Bag” (2004), “Complicities of Art” (2003), “At the Borders of the Concept” (with Ali Akay, 1998) and “A Deconstruction of the Fountain” (with Ali Akay, 1994). He teaches “Art Sociology”, “Art, Theory and Criticism”, “Contemporary Art and Interpretation”, “Globalisation and Art” at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Marmara University and Yeditepe University.