Murat Germen is an artist using photography as an expression / research tool. He has an MArch degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he went as a Fulbright scholar and received AIA Henry Adams Gold Medal for academic excellence. Works as a professor of art, photography and new media at Sabanci University in Istanbul. Having many articles / photo series published on architecture / photography / art / new media at various magazines / books; he has been accepted to several symposia / conferences like SIGGRAPH, ISEA, Mutamorphosis, Towards a Science of Consciousness, CAe, CAC2, EVA-London, eCAADe, ASCAAD to lecture on pertinent topics. Has opened over seventy inter/national (Turkey, USA, Italy, Germany, UK, Mexico, Portugal, Uzbekistan, Greece, Japan, Russia, Iran, India, France, Canada, Bahrain, Korea, Dubai, China, Sweden, Switzerland, Egypt) exhibitions. The artist and his artistic work is represented by artON Istanbul in Turkey, ARTITLEDcontemporary in the Netherlands-Belgium and Rosier Gallery in San Francisco. More than 300 editions of the artist’s several artworks are in personal collections of eminent art collectors inter/nationally, in addition to a few that are in Istanbul Modern’s and Proje4L Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art (Istanbul)
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Education
B.A of Science in City Planning ,Technical University Of Istanbul,1983-1987; M.A. of Architecture,Massachusetts Institute Of Technology,1988-1992
Areas of Interest
Art, Photography, Visual Communication Design, Multimedia Design, Interface Design, Architecture, New Media Theory
Awards
1st Place - Outstanding Achievement - 8th International Color Awards 2015 - 2015
Two honorable mention awards in International Photography Awards (IPA), 2012 - International Photography Awards (IPA) 2012 - 2012
3 honorable mention awards (ARCHITECTURE : BUILDINGS PRO / ARCHITECTURE : HISTORIC PRO / FINE ART : PORTRAIT PRO categories) - International Photography Awards (IPA) 2011
2 bronze awards - EPSON International Pano Awards 2010
Four honorable mention awards in International Photography Awards (IPA), 2009 - International Photography Awards (IPA) 2009
Honorable mentions - Prix de la Photographie, Paris (Px3) - Water competition 2009
14 honorable mentions - International Photography Awards (IPA) 2008
IBM Faculty Award - IBM 2008
2nd place and honorable mentions - International Photography Awards (IPA) 2007
Px3 / Prix de la Photographie Photo Competition - Px3 / Prix de la Photographie 2007
Caroun Photo Club First Annual Photography Exhibition, Tehran, Fall 2006. Second Prize, Winner of CAPA Golden Medal. - Caroun Photo Club 2006
Six honorable mention awards for seven photography series submitted to International Photography Awards 2006 (http://www.photoawards.com), a very well known and distinguished photography contest. - International Photography Awards (IPA) 2006
Four honorable mention awards for five photography series submitted to International Photography Awards (http://www.photoawards.com), a very well known and distinguished photography contest. - IPA / International Photography Awards 2005
Four honorable mention awards in International Photography Awards (IPA), 2005 - International Photography Awards (IPA) 2005
Two honorable mention awards for three photography series submitted to International Photography Awards 2004 (http://www.photoawards.com), a very well known and distinguished photography contest. - International Photography Awards (IPA) 2004
Two honorable mention awards in International Photography Awards (IPA) - International Photography Awards (IPA) 2004
Shortlisted entry for the UIA (International Union Of Architects) Logo Design Competition - UIA (International Union Of Architects) 2003
Lawrence B. Anderson Award for academic research to be completed by 2004 - M.I.T 2002
Honorable Mention in "Furniture '96" national design competition - 1996
Honorable Mention in II. Adobe Photoshop Digital Design Competition, 1996; - 1996
Honorable Mention in the Gallipoli Peace Park International Design Competition, 1996 - 1996
represented Turkey in 19th FIAP International Slide Biennial, - 1996
Honorable Mention in I. Adobe Photoshop Digital Design Competition - 1995
AIA Henry Adams Gold Medal - AIA 1992
Departmental Scholarships - Massachusetts Institute Of Technology 1990 - 1992
Fulbright Scholarship - Fulbright Commission 1988 - 1990
Memberships
International VR Photography Association (http://www.ivrpa.org)
Article
Germen, Murat (2011) "Aesthetics of serendipity: muta-morphosis", International Journal of Art, Culture and Design Technologies (IJACDT), Vol.1, No.2, 25-37
Germen, Murat (2010) "Using 2D photography as a 3D constructional tool within the metaverse", Metaverse Creativity, Vol.1, No.1, 35-50
Book Section / Chapter
Germen, Murat, "Subjectivity and inadvertence in computational art: muta-morphosis", Analyzing Art, Culture, and Design in the Digital Age, Mura, Gianluca (ed.), Hershey, PA, United States: IGI Global, October 2015, 143-158
Germen, Murat, "Keynote talk: from analog to digital, fictive vs. documentary: an ongoing journey", Arts and Technology: Fourth International Conference, ArtsIT 2014, Istanbul, Turkey, November 10-12, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, Brooks, Anthony Lewis and Ayiter, Elif and Yazıcıgil, Onur Fatih (eds.), London: Springer, May 2015, 1-12
Germen, Murat, "Photography as a tool of alienation: aura (Chapter 7)", Electronic Visualisation in Arts and Culture, Bowen, Jonathan P. and Keene, Suzanne and Ng, Kia (eds.), London, UK: Springer London 2013, 91-104
Germen, Murat, "Muta – Morphosis", Issues on Education and Research, Papanikos, Gregory T. (ed.), Athens, Greece: ATINER (Athens Institute for Education and Research) 2013, 73-86
Germen, Murat, "Sayısal baskıda renk sistemleri (ünite 1)", Sayısal Fotoğraf Baskı Teknikleri, Eryılmaz, Hüseyin (ed.), Eskişehir, Türkiye: Anadolu Üniversitesi, November 2010, 2-21
Germen, Murat, "Sayısal görüntüleme I (ünite 2)", Sayısal Fotoğraf Baskı Teknikleri, Eryılmaz, Hüseyin (ed.), Eskişehir, Türkiye: Anadolu Üniversitesi, November 2010, 30-52
Germen, Murat, "Sayısal görüntüleme II (ünite 3)", Sayısal Fotoğraf Baskı Teknikleri, Eryılmaz, Hüseyin (ed.), Eskişehir, Türkiye: Anadolu Üniversitesi, November 2010, 62-81
Germen, Murat, "Sayısal fotoğrafta görüntü işlem (ünite 7)", Sayısal Fotoğraf Baskı Teknikleri, Eryılmaz, Hüseyin (ed.), Eskişehir, Türkiye: Anadolu Üniversitesi, November 2010, 152-180
Germen, Murat, "Genel uyarılar (ünite 8)", Sayısal Fotoğraf Baskı Teknikleri, Eryılmaz, Hüseyin (ed.), Eskişehir, Türkiye: Anadolu Üniversitesi, November 2010, 186-217
Ayiter, Elif and Balcısoy, Selim and Germen, Murat, "3 case studies: a hybrid educational strategy for ART/SCI collaborations", Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, Huang, Fay and Wang, Reen-Cheng (eds.), Taiwan: Springer 2010, 223-230
Germen, Murat, "Content creation and propagation: tools for subjective hegemony", Subjectivity, Creativity, and the Institution, Crouch, Christopher (ed.), Boca Raton, Florida, USA: BrownWalker Press, October 2009, 251-264
Papers in Conference Proceedings
Germen, Murat, "Istanbul Gezi Park resistance movement as public engagement in the making of place", 5th Arte Polis International Conference and Workshop, Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier, May 2015, 13-21
Germen, Murat, "The unstoppable rise of mobile imaging and aesthetics", Ng, K. and McDaid, S. and Bowen, Jonathan P. (eds.), EVA London 2014 Electronic Visualisation and the Arts, London: BCS (British Computer Society), July 2014, 301-308
Germen, Murat, "Subjectivity in contemporary visualization of reality: re-visiting Ottoman miniatures", Dunn, Stuart and Bowen, Jonathan and Ng, Kia (eds.), EVA London 2012, London, UK: BCS (British Computer Society), July 2012, 15-22
Germen, Murat and Kavlak, Ahmet Emrah, "Future users, future cities: dwellers as designers", Godoy, Villazon Rafael Enrique and Peña, José Tiberio Hernández and Llach, Daniel Cardoso and Agudelo, Leonardo Parra (eds.), SIGRADI 2010 - XIV Congress of The Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics. Disruption, Modeling and Construction: Changing Dialogues, Bogotá, Colombia: Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) Faculty of Architecture and Design, November 2010, 294-297
Germen, Murat and Kavlak, Ahmet Emrah, "Future users, future cities: dweller as designer", eCAADe 2010 - 28th Conference Future Cities, Zurich, Switzerland: ETH (Eldgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich), September 2010, 57-64
Germen, Murat, "Photography as a tool of Alienation: Aura", Seal, Alan and Bowen, Jonathan and Ng, Kia (eds.), EVA London 2010, Swindon, UK: British Computer Society Publishing and Information Products, July 2010, 129-136
Germen, Murat, "Narrative motion on the two-dimensional plane: the “video-ization” of photography and characterization of reality", Haldane, Joseph (ed.), MediAsia 2010 - The Asian Conference on Media & Mass Communication, Japan: The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) 2010, 24-36
Ayiter, Elif and Balcısoy, Selim and Germen, Murat and Sakçak, Bulut and Özdöl, Fethi Mehmet, "The reflexive campus: a study of dynamic architecture in a virtual world", International Conference on CyberWorlds, 2009 (CW '09), USA: IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), September 2009, 57-62
Germen, Murat, "Chronophotography", Deussen, O. and Hall, P. and Gibson, S. and Hushlak, G. and Shaw, J. (eds.), Computational Aesthetics 2009 - Eurographics Workshop on Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization amd Imaging, Germany: Eurographics Association 2009, 151-151
Engin, Billur Hatice and Çetinkaya, Mehveş and Ayiter, Elif and Germen, Murat and Balcısoy, Selim, "Maestro: design challenges for a group calendar", Information Visualisation, 2008. IV '08. 12th International Conference, London: IEEE, July 2008, 491-496
Germen, Murat, "Redesigning architecture through photography", Dunn, Stuart and Keene, Suzanne and Mallen, George and Bowen, Jonathan (eds.), EVA London 2008, Electronic Information, the Visual Arts and Beyond, London, UK: British Computer Society, July 2008, 95-106
Germen, Murat, "Inadvertent - Ars accidentalis", Brown, Paul and Cunningham, Douglas W. and Interrante, Victoria and McCormack, John (eds.), International Symposium on Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging (CAe 2008), Germany: Eurographics Association, June 2008, 1-8
Germen, Murat, "Reconfiguring architectural space through photography", Zreik, Khaldoun and Garcia, Everardo Reyes (eds.), Computer Art Congress 2008 / Emerging forms of computer art: making the digital sense, Paris, France: Europia Productions, March 2008, 125-134
Ayiter, Elif and Germen, Murat, "Looking aside: collective constructs, autarchic assemblage", Sedlak, Pavel (ed.), MutaMorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences, Prague: CIANT – International Centre for Art and New Technologies in Prague , November 2007
Germen, Murat, "Virtual architecture: reconstructing architecture through photography", Okeil, Ahmad and Al-Attili, Aghlab and Mallasi, Zaki (eds.), Em'body'ing Virtual Architecture, The Third International Conference of ASCAAD, 2007, Alexandria, Egypt: Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design (ASCAAD), November 2007, 1-16
Ayiter, Elif and Balcısoy, Selim and Germen, Murat and Artut, Selçuk, "Propagating collaboration: an instructional methodology for artists and engineers", Schneiderman, Ben and Fischer, Gerhard and Giaccardi, Elissa and Eisenberg, Michael (eds.), 6th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity & Cognition (C&C '07), New York, USA : ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), June 2007, 45-52
Ayiter, Elif and Balcısoy, Selim and Germen, Murat and Kaşarcı, İsmail and Türker, Uraz Cengiz and Çaylı, Merve, ""Space frames": using space, color and animation in the visualization of complex graph systems", 17th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT 2007), Washington, USA: IEEE Computer Society 2007, 286-287
Germen, Murat, "Kanyon reconstructed", ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 Art Gallery / International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, New York, NY, USA: ACM Press 2007, 266-267
Germen, Murat, "Reading the space as an identity:", Siggraph 2006 Conceptual Investigation: Technology, Message, and Meaning, Siggraph 2006 Art Gallery, Boston: SIGGRAPH, September 2006, 1-1
Germen, Murat and Artut, Selçuk and Ayiter, Elif and Balcısoy, Selim and Sharir, Yacov, "The representation and navigation of complex data", Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Education in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe: 24th eCAADe Conference, Volos, Greece: University of Thessaly, September 2006, 711-720