Algoritmik Sanatın Hibrit Kamusal Alan İnşasındaki Rolüne İlişkin Bir Model: Refik Anadol Projeleri Örneği

Abstract

Algorithmic art, one of the new art forms that emerged due to the effects of digitalization in the field of art, has become remarkable both in terms of artistic creation and academic research in recent years. Although algorithm-like applications can also be associated with traditional art forms, today when algorithmic art is mentioned, digital art realized with algorithms, artificial intelligence and machine learning comes to mind. The transformation that occurs in artistic production with these technologies also changes the discussions about art, the way art is perceived and the social function of art. In the sociology of art literature, the emphasis on the pluralization of experiences offered by art with the emergence of digital art forms in technological societies where images and symbols gain importance and the construction of a new public space on the socio-artistic plane with global communication and sharing platforms attract attention. The structure of algorithmic art, which hybridizes physical and virtual spaces, has an important role in these emphases. In this context, it becomes important within the framework of the democratization of art to evaluate hybrid public spaces together with efforts to determine the criteria of publicity and to discuss the promises of algorithmic art forms that come to the fore with hybrid public spaces. In this study, the relationship between algorithmic art forms and the concept of hybrid public space is evaluated and the potential qualities of algorithmic art practices in the context of hybrid public space construction are examined with examples from Refik Anadol's projects. A content analysis of the artist's projects has been conducted based on qualitative research methodology and case study. In the analysis, the criteria of publicness put forward by authors such as Benn and Gauss, Nemeth and Schmidt, Varna and Tiesdell, Langstraat and Van Melik, approaches that deal with publicity procedurally, prominent discussions within the framework of hybrid public space and the concept of "relational aesthetics" were used.