While celebrating the 100th year of the Turkish Republic, the 6th International Travel Expo Ankara Fair opened its doors on November 16–19, at the ATO Congresium. This year, the fair’s theme focused on health tourism and attracted various stakeholders, including tourism industry actors, municipalities from all around Turkey, embassies and[Read More…]
Campus & Community
Dolby Atmos Listening Sessions Held
The Department of Communication and Design (COMD) organized an event, Dolby Atmos Listening Sessions, which took place on November 17–18. A group of 39 artists, composers, sound designers and mix engineers were hosted for two days / four sessions. Dolby and Apple Music helped support the event. The event took[Read More…]
Pigments, Colors and Ideas
The Faculty of Humanities and Letters and the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture organized the event “Pigments, Colors and Ideas,” which took place on November 23–24, for the occasion of the 100th year of the Turkish Republic. The Opening Reception at the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations started with the[Read More…]
IAED Student at NYC NFT Event
Oğuzhan Gülcan’s (IAED/I) project “Red” was accepted for exhibition in the NFT NYC event, which will be held this April in Times Square in New York. NFT NYC, established in 2019, connects leaders, influencers, developers and fans of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) in New York City (NYC). It focuses on the[Read More…]
Prof. Hansson Discusses Intriguing Aspects of Quantum Theory
Bilkent University hosted Prof. Thors Hans Hansson of Stockholm University and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences as a speaker for the 2023 İhsan Doğramacı Memorial Lecture. This year’s memorial lecture titled “Five Wonders of the Quantum World,” was held on Wednesday, November 15, at the İhsan and Ayser Doğramacı[Read More…]
“Call for Life” Ranks High in IGART’s Top 10 Artworks
Call for Life,” a project by Asst. Prof. Efe Alpay of the Department of Graphic Design, was selected from a pool of 172 entries, standing out among the top 10 at the IGA İstanbul Airport competition (IGART). Within the character of İstanbul Airport and Turkey’s geography and culture, the IGART[Read More…]
PhilFest AI Art Exhibition at the Library
On Friday, November 17, Bilkent University Library hosted the PhilFest AI Art Exhibition, blending the worlds of art and artificial intelligence within the Library Art Gallery. The collection, comprising works centered around philosophical themes and created with the assistance of Artificial Intelligence (AI), was curated from the Generative Artificial Intelligence[Read More…]
Guests from Radboud University Promote Erasmus+ Program at Bilkent
Réka Goedhart-Kedves and Elif Saf from Radboud University’s science faculty visited Bilkent University on November 9. Together with Bilkent’s office of International Students and Exchange Programs, Goedhart-Kedves and Saf presented a session on Radboud University and the Erasmus Student Mobility and Training. Students from the faculty of science showed great[Read More…]
An External Perspective on Ankara
To celebrate the 100th year of the Republic, Bilkent University’s Department of Architecture collaborated with Rahmi M. Koç Museum in an exhibition that critically analyzes and documents the expansion of Ankara as the capital of the Republic. The exhibition displays the works of graduate students from a course taught by[Read More…]
Ardan Özmenoğlu’s Atatürk Portraits: Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Republic
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Turkish Republic, Ardan Özmenoğlu (LAUD ’02, MA GRA ’06), a worldwide contemporary artist, held a five-day workshop at the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture. The first of this impressive series is a 10×1.5 m photograph of Atatürk, created using Post-it notes. Although[Read More…]