Talk series titled “Digital Art Now” which is focusing on the working practices of the artists who work by the means of the digital expression possibilities in Turkey and around the world is on Akbank Sanat YouTube channel. “Digital Art Now” series; while focusing on different topics such as artificial intelligence, augmented reality, audio/visual performances, computer technologies, it also includes personal trailers of the artists' journeys of discovery, sources of inspiration, and their careers. The first guest of the series, which follows a road map from how artists integrate technology with the creativity, to their latest works, is musician, academician, and artist Selçuk Artut.
Selçuk Artut (1976)’s artistic research and production focus on theoretical and practical dimensions of human-technology relations. Artut’s artworks have been exhibited at Dystopie Sound Art Festival (Berlin, 2018), Moving Image NY (New York, 2015), Art13 London (London, 2013), ICA London (London, 2012), Art Hong Kong (Hong Kong, 2011), Istanbul Biennale (Istanbul, 2007), and received coverage at Artsy, Creative Applications, CoDesign, Visual Complexity, CNN GO. He holds a Ph.D. in Media and Communications from European Graduate School, Switzerland. Currently, Artut is the program coordinator of the Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design Program at Sabanci University, Istanbul where he mainly teaches Sound and Interaction Courses. He has been releasing several albums as a member of a Post-Rock Avangard music band Replikas since 1998. In 2016, he founded with Alp Tuğan, an audio-visual performance group named RAW which produces works through creative coding and live-coding techniques.