About
Alp Tuğan is a new media artist, designer, coder and musician. He received his BA from Ankara University Geophysics Engineering Program. Through his undergraduate education, he played with many bands. At his last year, he started to write about Audio and Recording Technologies at Volume Music Magazine in Istanbul, Turkey. In 2007, he accepted to Sabanci University, Visual Communication Design MA Program with scholarship and graduated with his thesis project Squatouch: Object oriented Sounds / Tangible Musical Interface. Now, he is working on interaction design, physical computing, sonic arts and tangible user interfaces as freelancer.
Statement:
As an artist I am interested in sound. I work on design and interaction with urban materials. Today’s consumerist society overproduces and over destroys materials. In my artistic approach I try to increase the usability of urban environments by eliminating wasteful objects and altering social behaviors. Hardware hacking, sound (re)production, material gathering, Object Oriented Programming and graphic design coincide in providing a framework to implement positive change. The artistic challenge that I find is to recombine these elements together proportionally in order to generate a new contemporary aesthetic that is responsive to the environment.
