ABOUT ME
Born in Turkey and based in Los Angeles, I am an interdisciplinary artist and researcher in art and technology. My practice explores how technology, entangled with power dynamics, mediates voices, shaping what becomes audible, visible, or distorted. I create installations that fuse digitally and manually fabricated matter, sound, and physical computing, where the politics of voice becomes tangible and embodied. I am particularly interested in the relationships between sound, physical geometry, repetition, scale, and material transformation.
FULL BIOGRAPHY
Born in İzmir, Turkey, Şölen Kıratlı, Ph.D., is an independent artist and researcher working in emerging technologies and digital media. Her work interrogates themes of power, agency, and resilience, often using interactive multimedia installations to explore narratives of resistance, empowerment, and ecological interconnectedness.
Kıratlı’s work has been exhibited internationally, engaging diverse audiences in critical dialogues around feminism, digital realities, and ecology. She has received numerous distinctions, including the “Best in Show” award at the ACM SIGGRAPH 2020 Art Gallery, the Audience Award (2nd Place) at the New Technological Art Awards (NTAA, 2022), and Artistic Production Incentives from Fundación Telefónica’s VIDA 13.0 program. Her exhibitions include Contemporary Istanbul, Zebrastraat, SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Asia Art Galleries, ISEA (International Symposium for Electronic Arts), CURRENTS New Media, IEEE VIS Art Program, and ACM Multimedia Art Gallery.
She served as Co-Chair of the ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 Art Gallery, Beyond Words: Transcending Language, and has contributed as a juror and peer reviewer for numerous international academic and artistic programs. Kıratlı has taught at the University of California, San Diego, and the University of California, Santa Barbara, where her teaching spans creative coding, computational arts, and interactive media.
Kıratlı holds a Ph.D. in Media Arts and Technology (University of California, Santa Barbara), an M.Arch (University of Southern California), and a B.Sc. in Architecture (Istanbul Technical University). Before transitioning into digital media arts, she worked on several architectural projects in Los Angeles, California.