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Ozge Samanci

Associate Professorat Northwestern University
Evanston,
United States
Focus area: Computer Graphics, Digital Imaging, Animation, Data Art, Science, Digital Art, New Media, Ecology, Environment, Visual Culture, Visual Studies

Özge Samanci, media artist and graphic novelist, is an associate professor in Northwestern University’s School of Communication. Her interactive installations have been exhibited internationally, including Siggraph Art Gallery, FILE festival, Currents New Media, The Tech Museum of Innovation, WRO Media Art Biennial, Athens International Festival of Digital Arts and New Media, Piksel Electronic Arts Festival, ISEA among others. Her autobiographical graphic novel Dare to Disappoint (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2015) received international press attention and was positively reviewed in The New York Times, The Guardian, Slate along with many other media outlets. Dare to Disappoint has been translated into five languages. Her drawings appeared in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Slate Magazine, The Huffington Post, Airmail, Guernica, The Rumpus. In 2017, she received the Berlin Prize and she was the Holtzbrinck Visual Arts Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.

Journal Articles:
Art Gallery

Original Narratives Art Gallery

August 2018
Art Gallery

Proliferating Possibilities: Speculative Futures in Art and Design Art Gallery

July 2019