Bilge Günay İçözü
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I use technology not only as a tool but a subject in itself: something to be listened to, observed and questioned. What happens when we strip technology of its sleek interfaces and allow its inner workings to become visible, audible and performative?

Light Art

Light Art

Omada

Details

2025

Light Art Installation, Laser, Sound Art

Credits

Concept & design, programming: Bilge Günay İçözü

Production: M.Nurfadhli Jasni

Sound Design: Theon Adam

Artwork Description

Omada is a light installation that creates a multisensory audiovisual experience. By exploring the perception of light within space, it invites viewers into an immersive environment where light and sound interact in harmony. Emphasizing the spatial qualities of the medium, it shapes perception through light in motion. Running in real time via TouchDesigner, the installation responds dynamically to sound, sculpting space moment by moment, creating a presence that continuously evolves.

Sound Art

Sound Art

Sonic Artefacts

Details

2025

Sound-light Installation, Generative system, Electronics, Programming

Credits

Concept development, design, programming, electronics, assembly: Bilge Günay İçözü

Artwork Description

Sonic Artefacts is a sound–light sculpture that reveals the hidden infrastructures of technology by treating its components not as tools, but as subjects in themselves. What you see is what you hear: the technology is both the medium and the subject. When isolated and framed transparently, simple industrial elements become expressive, shifting from functional objects to sonic and visual performers. Rather than focusing on narrative, the project draws attention to patterns and details that are normally hidden and mundane in everyday life.

Through Sonic Artefacts, I aim to reframe the aesthetics of electronic components and everyday found objects, transforming overlooked mechanisms of technology into visible and audible phenomena. The project invites reflection on how technological systems shape our sensory environment and our relationship with technological infrastructures.

Creative Coding

Creative Coding

Dissonant Oscillations

Info

Type: Algorithmic Artwork on Layer Canvas

Tools: Javascript & GLSL

Date: 2025

Credits

Artist: dist.cs (Ilgın İçözü & Bilge Günay İçözü)

Source: layer.art/artists/distcs/artworks/dissonant-oscillation

Artwork Description

Dissonant Oscillation by dist.cs is a generative code-based work that captures a quiet dialogue between tension and release. Gradient hues drift across the canvas in steady, pulsing motion, with subtle shifts that create a sense of perpetual transition.

The work combines feedback loops and chromatic aberration to produce a visual field that feels both restrained and expansive. What emerges is a meditative surface where contrast becomes cohesion, and where dissonance is not resolved, but held in balance.

The piece invites sustained attention, rewarding the viewer with an ever-evolving image that resists final form while maintaining an internal sense of wholeness.

Creative Coding

Udnē, Art Basel Miami Beach 2022

Info

Type: Long-form Generative Artwork

Tools: p5.js

Date: 2022

Developed for: fxhash interactive minting experience at Performance in Code: Deciphering Value in Generative Art, Art Basel Miami Beach

Credits

Artist: dist.cs (Ilgın İçözü & Bilge Günay İçözü)

Source: tezos.com/events/art-basel-miami-beach

Project: fxhash.xyz/project/udne

Artwork Description

Udnē is part of the fxhash interactive minting experience at Performance in Code: Deciphering Value in Generative Art, presented during Art Basel Miami Beach 2022.

The work is a collection of asymmetric textural compositions shaped through a search for harmony and disharmony. By combining three colors with three unsynchronized mathematical equations, Udnē explores the visual tension of triadic structures while bringing together contrasting textures in non-figurative scenes.

The resulting compositions reflect the layered relationship between integrated and opposing textures across both micro and macro scales, drawing from perceptual contrasts found in everyday environments.

About

Statement
& Bio

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get in touch via bilgegunayicozu@gmail.com

Statement

My practices emerges from a growing desire to highlight the raw, often overlooked materials and objects embedded in our everyday lives. I work with reality as it is - revealing structures that usually remain hidden, unnoticed or discarded. I am drawn to functional and perceptual tensions and to aesthetics that emerge not from ornament but from presence, process and structure.

Rather than using technology only as a tool, I treat it as a subject in itself - something to be listened to, observed and questioned. What happens when we strip technology of its sleek interfaces and allow its inner workings to become visible, audible and performative? This approach leads me to engage with found or industrial materials, electronic circuitry, non-aesthetic objects and systems that exist outside conventional artistic framing.

When we remove objects from their functional use, we create space to observe them from different perspectives. This observation reveals hidden details we might have previously ignored. By taking these elements out of their original context and placing them into new ones, their functionality becomes blurred: allowing their sonic and visual qualities to stand out.

In Sonic Artefacts, I treat visual and sonic components as fully connected - what you see is what you hear. There is no hidden mechanism. The relays, their clicking and their illumination are the piece. I’m interested in how something so simple can become expressive when isolated, repeated, and placed in a transparent frame. Through this, I aim to draw attention to the kinds of elements we usually overlook or take for granted.

My work focuses on experiences that are not about narrative or metaphor but about observation - about seeing and hearing the mechanics of a system in motion. I aim to invite people to slow down and notice the patterns and moments that are always there, just outside of our usual focus.

Bio

Born in 1995 in Istanbul, Turkey, I studied bachelor’s degree in Arts and Cultural Management in Istanbul, followed by a master’s in Music in Istanbul and an master’s in Multimedia Creation for Live Shows in Spain. These studies have shaped my practice today. By focusing on perception, materiality and functional aesthetics, my practice spans multiple media to reveal the often overlooked. Through various mediums such as programming, audiovisual composition, light, interactivity, and video mapping, I construct systems that reveal overlooked patterns and subtle material behaviors. Working with everyday found objects and electronic components through generative processes, I integrate technology as both medium and subject, offering critical reflections on how digital systems shape our experience of the everyday.

Selected exhibitions

  • 2025, NXT Festival, Sevilla, Spain
  • 2025, Noise Media Art, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2025, MICME Interactive Art Festival, Valencia, Spain
  • 2025, Na Xanela, Que Facemos!?, Galicia, Spain
  • 2023, MINERAL, Galerie Data, Paris, France
  • 2023, The Generative Art Corner, Vertical CyrptoArt, Rome, Italy
  • 2023, Proof of People x Refraction, Vertical CyrptoArt, New York, United States
  • 2023, Companions of Code, Vertical CyrptoArt x The NFT Gallery, London, United Kingdom
  • 2023, Seçici İletken, Contemporary Istanbul Foundation, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2022, Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Basel & Tezos Foundation & fx(hash), Miami, United States
  • 2022, NFT Show Europe, NFT Show Europe,Valencia, Spain
  • 2022, Now in digital Art and Alternate Realities + NFT, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2021, Contemporary Istanbul, De Artium, Istanbul Turkey

Residencies

  • 2023, Vertical Crypto Art Residency, Vertical Crypto Art, Online

Selected Media & Press

  • 2024, 30 October, Ana Maria Caballero, “Web3 Travel Guides: The Parisian Crypto Art Scene” in Online resource
  • 2023, 9 January, Artdog Istanbul, ““Seçici İletken” Fişekhane’de” in Online resource
  • 2023, 15 July, Conference, “Synergies: Expanding artistic frontiers ”
  • 2022, 6 December, Interview, “Inside the Algorithm: Meet the Artists – Tezos x Art Basel Miami Beach 2022” in Online resource
  • 2022, 18 December, Pixel.Bulten, “Piksel.Bulten#9” in Online resource
  • 2022, 22 November, Abdelaziz Fathi, “Tezos Presents Interactive NFT Exhibition at Art Basel Miami Beach” in Online resource
  • 2022, 7 April, Interview, “Jeneratif Sanat ve Yeni Bir Alan Olarak NFT” in Online resource
  • 2022, 13 April, Interview, “NFT’yi Sanatçılara Sorduk” in Online resource
  • 2022, 1 March, Akbank Sanat, “Now in Digital Art: Alternate Realities + NFT” in Online resource