Esra Özkan Topal

Esra Özkan Topal (b. 1990) has been working as an independent curator and researcher in the art field, both internationally and locally, since 2015. She focused her studies on digital arts and has been producing exhibitions of digital arts since then. Esra has expertise in artificial intelligence, immersive art, NFTs, VR, XR, and AR. She collaborates with artists working in these sub-fields from all around the world and focusing human-machine, human-nature, and machine-nature relationships through the perspectives of art and technology.

Esra curatorial practice focuses on the raw material to highlight cognitive experiences created by interdisciplinary artists using emerging new technologies. She frequently collaborates with interdisciplinary artists/technologists who deal with the political and social problems caused by emerging technologies. Her curatorial and academic writings bring philosophy together with the post-digital terminology and the effects of post-human concepts in interdisciplinary arts. Currently, she is a guest lecturer at Istinye University with a lesson on Artificial Intelligent and Art, Philosophy and Social Thought, Master of Arts Degree, Bilgi University, Istanbul.

Esra Özkan Topal, Independent Curator, Istanbul, Turkey, has been awarded by SAHA.