[im] Data Asymmetries: An Interview with Burak Arikan

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Data Asymmetries: An Interview with Burak Arikan | By Carleigh

How does network mapping exist as a tool for visualizing a politics 
of control as well as routes of emancipation from surveillance? In 
the first of a two-part interview series, artist/technologist Burak 
Arikan addresses this question in the context of his work on network 
mapping and diagramming the invisible forces of power that shape our 
contemporary moment.

Burak Arikan is one of Turkey's leading media artists, a figure who 
straddles the lines between technologist and practitioner. He 
explores relations between data and transactions, the regimes of 
datafication and identification as control, and maps relations of 
power and invisible infrastructures with network mapping tools. 
According to new media theorist Jussi Parikka, Burak's pieces "raise 
questions of the predictability of ordinary human behavior with 
MyPocket(2008); reveal insights into the infrastructure of megacities 
like Istanbul as a network of mosques, republican monuments and 
shopping malls (Islam, Republic, Neoliberalism, 2012); remap and 
organise recurring patterns in the official tourism commercials of 
governments with Monovacation (2012); explore the growth of networks 
via visual and kinetic abstraction with Tense (2007-2012); and 
showcase collective production of network maps from the Graph Commons 
platform."

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