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PIRIL GÜNDÜZ

EDUCATION

MA in Media Studies, 2014, School of Media Studies, The New School, New York, NY, USA.

Key Courses: Jean Luc Godard’s Film/Politics/Theory, Film Form, Mediation and Antimediation with Eugene Thacker PhD, Civic Media in Contested Spaces, Configurations of Knowledge

Additional courses in MFA in Fine Arts at Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY, USA.

Key Courses: Advanced Practices: Performance Art, Advanced Practices: Feminist Art

BA in Economics, 2011, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, TURKEY.

Key Courses: History of Economic Thought, Development Economics, Econometrics, Banking and Financial Markets

Minor in Film Studies, 2011, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, TURKEY.

Key Courses: Film Ethics Erotics, Queer Aesthetics and Contemporary Film, Film History I & II, Film Theory, Contemporary World Cinema, Cinema and Literature

ADDITIONAL COURSEWORK

Harvard University, Alvin Ailey, Gibney, Mark Morris, Classical Ballet

SELECT TALKS

ACI Career Days Speaker, American Collegiate Institute, İzmir, Turkey, January 2020.

Visiting Critic, Flux Factory, NY, September 2016.

Moderator, Soho House, NY, “In conversation with Genco Gülan”, November 2015.

Visiting Critic, Parsons School of Design, NY, May 2015.

Deleuze Conference, Tamkang University, Taiwan, 2013.

London Conference of Critical Thought, Royal Holloway University, UK, 2013.

Panelist, Eyebeam Art+Technology Center, NY, “Activist Demo Day”, April 2012.

AWARDS

EU Grant for Impactors. 2023-2024.

KWORKS Koc University Female Startup Entrepreneurship Grant. 2023.

Demo Day Award, METU Technopark. 2022.

Honorable mention for 16mm film, The New School, 2012.

Narrative sculpture award, The New School, 2012.

Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey TUBITAK Scholarship 2005-2010.

EXHIBITIONS AS CURATOR

Panerotic, Bennu Gerede.  Mart 2021, Urla, İzmir.

Red, Sept 2020, Alacatı, İzmir 

Red, July 2020, Alacatı, İzmir 

Hinterland, Sept 2018, Bebek, İstanbul

Mesia, Sept  2017, Alacatı, İzmir 

Rework, March 2017, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York

Metanoesis, Nov 2016, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York

Talita Zaragoza with Meural, Oct 2016, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York

Interventions 3, Sept 2016, Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York

Erote, Sept 2016, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York

Electrique, July 2016, Dumbo, Brooklyn, New York

Electrique, June 2016, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York

Permeate the House, March 2016, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York

Hollow at X Contemporary, Dec 2015, Wynwood, Miami, Florida

Staves, Gussets  Nov  2015, Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York

Auto-Chemistry  June 2015, Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York

Hollow at Pier 94, April 2015, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan, New York

Cuddly/Demure, Dec 2014, Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York

Hollow, Oct 2014, Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York

Embody-mine, April 2012, West Village, Manhattan, New York 

Bricollab, Dec 2011, Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York

PROGRAMMING AS A CURATOR

Immersive Theater series, Bushwick and Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 2015-2017

Late night: Geneses Studios, overnight art production series with audience, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 2016-2017

Eastyard, Electronic Live Sound Art series,  Williamsburg Brooklyn, 2015-2017

Spoiler Alert, film screening with Q&As, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 2016

Nighttime at the Hollows, late night performance series, 2015-2016, Buswick, Brooklyn, New York

Artists Interview Curators, talk series, 2016-2017, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York

Histories of Art, 2015-2016, Buswick and Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York

Hollow Workshops, 2015-2016, Bushwick, Brooklyn New York

Filmhouse, 2016-2017,  all house film production series, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York

EXHIBITIONS AS ARTIST

Elias, İzmir, August 2021

Spoonbill & Sugartown, New York, April 2019

International Improv Dance Festival, İstanbul, May 2021

Brooklyn Wildlife  Festival , New York,  August 2019

Gamba Forest, New York,  June 2019

Mesia, İzmir,  Septemer 2017

The Hollows Rework, New York,  March 2017

The Good Room,  New York, December 2016

Metanoesis, The Hollows, New York, November 2016

New York Art Expo, New York,  April 2015

X Contemporary, Miami, December 2015

Auto-Chemistry, The Hollows, New York, May 2015

Failures, The New School, New York, April  2013

Remix Media  Festival, New York, October 2012

Tenri Institute, New York,  November 2012

Aaron Gallery, New York, March 2012

Fine Cuts, New York, December  2011

ACADEMIC AND ART WRITING

• Conference Papers

London Conference of Critical Thought, Royal Holloway University, UK, 2013.

“Impasses of Critique in Contemporary Image and What Art Overcomes”

Deleuze Conference, Tamkang University, Taiwan, 2013.

“Transcendence  and Immanence in Miniature Painting”

• Literary/Art/Film/Media/Queer Theory

Noesis of Affect-Image at the Intersection of Time-Image and Unlearning in the Cinema of Lucretia Martel, Carlos Reygadas and James Gray, 2013

Impersonal Narcissism with Relational Aesthetics, 2012

Primal Scenes in Godard, 2012

Relational Videos of Kutluğ Ataman, 2010

• Exhibition Essays

Erote, 2016

Electrique, 2016

Immanent Structures, 2015

Coddly / Demure, 2014