Interview | Built for Mars: An Architect’s NASA Award Winning Vision for a Sustainable, High Performance Habitat, FuturizeX- an X Prize Initiative, Los Angeles, April 2017
Interview | Architect Ozel Wins NASA Prize, CNN, January 2017
Editorial and Award | 40 under 40: Most Influential Turks in the US, American Turkish Society, Turks of America Mag, December 2016
Interview | West Coast Architecture Firms are a Hotbed for VR Applications, Archpaper, September 2016
Interview | Building Blade Runner: How UCLA’s IDEAS Lab Envisions the Future, PC Mag, July 2016
Opinion | Can Robotization of Transport Make Istanbul Livable?, XXI Magazine, January 2016
Interview | Next Time You Are At A Pretentious Exhibition, Just Change It, GOOD Magazine, November 2014
Interview | BBC Artnews: Cerebral Hut at Red Never Follows, September 2013
Interview | Euronews: Red Never Follows at Saatchi Gallery Features Cerebral Hut, September 2013
Exhibitions
Digital Installation | Holoflux, Fortnite Coachella Island, April 2023
Installation | Spectrum, Interactive Digital Media and Sculpture, Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair, September 2022
Exhibition | Neuroweave Rugs, Deka+2, Twelve Years of Industrial Design in Turkey, Arthan Gallery, Istanbul, September 2022
Installation | Persuasion Machines, Mixed Reality Installation, SXSW (South by Southwest) Festival, Austin, March 2022
Installation | Interface, Robotic Ceiling and ML Generated Media Art Installation, Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas, January 2022
Exhibition | Memory Palace, Rug Design and Installation, American Turkish Society, October 2021
Exhibition | Cypher, Venice Architecture Biennale Italian Pavilion, June 2021
Exhibition | RAW, One Object at a Time Group Show, A+D Museum Los Angeles, June 2021
Exhibition | Convolution, AR Installation, Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair, May 2021
Exhibition | Memory Palace, Rug Design and Installation, Plug-in Digital Arts, May 2021
Exhibition | Convolution, AR and LED Wall Installation, Istanbul Lights Festival, Dec 2020
Exhibition | Cypher, FEEDback Exhibition, Miami International University, July 2020
Exhibition | Cypher, FEEDback Exhibition, Buenos Aires Biennale, March 2020
Exhibition | Persuasion Machines, Mixed Reality Installation, Sundance Film Festival- New Frontiers, Park City Utah, January 2020
Exhibition | Deep City, Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2019
Exhibition | Cypher, SXSW Film Festival, Virtual Cinema, Austin TX, March 2019
Exhibition | Cypher, ACADIA 2018 Mexico City, October 2018
Exhibition | Cypher, TechnArte 2017 Conference, Los Angeles, November 2017
Exhibition | NASA Mars Habitat, Luminary Art and Technology Festival, San Francisco, April 2017
Installation | Mission to Mars, a VR experience, Architecture and Design Museum, LA, March 2016
Installation and Curator | Project Source Code, Venice Architecture Biennale, June 2014
Installation | Cerebral Hut, SXSW (South by Southwest) Interactive Festival, Part of “Bioreactive Experience” Presented by Pepsi and Fast Company, March 2014
Installation | Cerebral Hut, Level Group Show, Palace Theater, Los Angeles, February 2014
Installation | Cerebral Hut, Red Never Follows Group Show, Saatchi Gallery, London, Aug 2013
Installation | Cerebral Hut, Installation, Istanbul Design Biennial, Istanbul, October 2012
Set Design | Snow Queen, Set Design, Newman Court, Bennington College,VT, March 2002
Installation| Vibrations, Video Installation, Baugalerie/ Bauhaus Dessau, Germany, April 2001
Installation | City Simulator, Media Installation, MASSMOCA, North Adams, MA, October 1999
Academic Papers and Publications
Book | Maximum City, UCLA AUD IDEAS Technology Studio, June 2022
Paper |Cyberphysical Architecture in the Era of Digital Eclecticism: Transdisciplinarity and Conflation of Technological Milieus, Interactive Futures the Book, October 2021
Paper |Interdisciplinary AI: A Machine Learning System for Streamlining External Aesthetic and Cultural Influences in Architecture, Proceedings of ACADIA 2019, Austin TX, October 2019 (with Benjamin Ennemoser)
Paper |Architecture’s Digital Divide: Post-digital Formalisms and the Emergence of Cyberphysical Architecture, AIA National Conference Proceedings, Fort Worth, December 2018
Paper and Award |Best Project and Paper, Cypher: A Reality Machine, TechnArte 2017 Conference, Los Angeles, November 2017
Paper |Toward a Postarchitecture, Log 36, Robolog, edited by Greg Lynn, January 2016
Paper |Architectural Intelligence (or How to Become a Building) Medium, January 2014
Paper |Case for an Architectural Singularity, Proceedings of ACADIA 2013, Los Angeles CA, October 2013
Publication |Friends and Enemies, Associate Editor, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Springer 2011
Lectures, Presentations and Symposia
Speaker | The Mobius Conference, April 2023
Speaker and Panelist | Demystifying the Metaverse, Southern California Development Forum, August 2022
Lecture | Architectural Intelligence: Machine Learning Systems in Architectural Design and Spatial Interaction, IAAC Barcelona, May 2022
Lecture | Spectrums of Reality: Cyberphysical Architecture and the Metaverse, RMIT Melbourne, May 2022
Lecture | Spectrums of Reality: Cyberphysical Architecture and the Metaverse, University of San Diego School of Visual Arts, April 2022
Lecture | Spatial Intelligence: Recent Work, die Angewandte Vienna, Studio Hani Rashid, March 2021
Conference Host and Speaker | Virtual Presence, UCLA AUD, Online, February 2021
Keynote Speaker and Panelist | Interactive Design, Digital Futures, January 2021
Speaker and Panelist | Spatial Intelligence, Intelligent Virtual Agents Symposium, University of Glasgow, October 2020
Keynote Speaker and Panelist | AI and Architecture, Digital Futures, July 2020
Lecture | Toward a Cyberphysical Architecture, Florida International University, Los Angeles, March 2020
Lecture | Toward a Cyberphysical Architecture, UCSB Media Arts and Technology Program, Santa Barbara, November 2019
Session Chair | AR/VR, ACADIA 2019, Austin TX, October 2019
Paper Presentation | Interdisciplinary AI: A Machine Learning System for Streamlining External Aesthetic and Cultural Influences in Architecture, ACADIA 2019, Austin TX, October 2019 (with Benjamin Ennemoser)
Lecture and Panelist | Architectural Intelligence: Brain Computer Interfaces for Interactive Architecture, Neuroscience for Architecture, Urbanism & Design Summer Intersession, Newschool San Diego, August 2019
Speaker | Toward a Cyberphysical Architecture, TxA Conference, Fort Worth, November 2018
Speaker and Panelist | Sensibilities, Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair, Istanbul, September 2018
Speaker | Toward a Cyberphysical Architecture, INFOCOMM 2018, Las Vegas, 2018
Speaker| Extended Reality in Architecture, Engineering and Construction, VRScout, Los Angeles, April 2018
Lecture | Toward a Cyberphysical Architecture, Woodbury University, Los Angeles, October 2018 Lectures, Presentations and Symposia 10
Conference Organizer, Speaker | Visionworlds, A multidisciplinary conference on Extended Reality, UCLA AUD IDEAS, Los Angeles, April 2018
Speaker and Panelist | Extended Reality in Architecture, Engineering and Construction, VRScout, Los Angeles, April 2018
Lecture | Transarchitectures, Cranbrook Academy of Art, January 2018
Lecture and Panelist | Mobile Experience Conference, UCLA, October 2017
Lecture and Award | Best Project and Paper, Cypher: A Reality Machine, TechnArte 2017 Conference, Los Angeles, November 2017
Lecture | Recent Work, Columbia University School Of Engineering and Applied Science, NY, October 2017
Moderator | In the Gutter, Discussion on the culture of the digital, LA Forum, Wuho Gallery, September 2017
Speaker| Encompass: Inclusive Architecture, Symposium on Promoting Diversity in Architecture, AIA LA, April 2017
Conference Host and Speaker | Machines of Loving Grace, a Symposium on AI, Robotics and Architecture, UCLA, Speakers inc. Benjamin Bratton, Casey Reas, Rebecca Allen and others, March 2017
Speaker| Mean Detail Symposium, Ohio State University, March 2017
Lecture | Recent work, National Chio Tong University, Taiwan, November 2016
Speaker| Google:SPAN, Google’s Annual Conference on the Culture of Design, October 2016
Speaker| Architecting Experiences for VR/AR, Speaker Sessions by VRLA, Los Angeles, September 2016
Panel Discussion | A+D Museum and LA Forum Presents: Creative Work in Los Angeles, June 2016
Speaker| DigiLogue, A Conference on Digital Art and Culture, Istanbul, Apr 2016
Speaker| International Innovation Conference Istanbul, other notable speakers include astronaut Chris Hadfield, Kickstarter founder Charles Adler, among others, November 2015,
Speaker and Moderator | Additive Disrupt Summit, Premier summit on 3D Printing, April 2015
Keynote Speaker | Robotic Future of Transportation and Our Cities, Los Angeles Autoshow, November 2014
Conference Session Chair | Temporal Agency, ACADIA 2014 Conference, Los Angeles, October 2014
Speaker| Case for an Architectural Singularity, Lecture and Paper Presentation, Temporal Agency, ACADIA 2014 Conference, Los Angeles, October 2014 11
Speaker| Neuroscience and Interactive Architecture, Lecture, Abstract and Poster Presentation, ANFA (Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture), Salk Institute, September 2014
Keynote Speaker | Android Spaces: Fusion of Technology, Architecture and Human Presence, Think Big Festival, August 2014
Speaker| EPFX symposium: REQUIRED misREADINGS, SciArc, Los Angeles, March 2014
Speaker| Evocative Potentials: Toward an Architecture of Spatial Intelligence, Lecture and Paper Presentation, Encoding Architecture Conference, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, February 2013
