Ozan Atalan is a visual artist and independent researcher whose transmedia, interdisciplinary, and research-based practice spans video installations, design, drawing, performance, sculpture, video art, and critical media.
Rooted in lived experience, emotional inquiry, and a desire for communication, Atalan’s practice explores the possibility of creating deeper forms of connection between information, emotion, technology, human experience, and more-than-human worlds. His work investigates how human and nonhuman forms co-evolve across ecological, psychological, technological, and social conditions. Rather than approaching posthumanism, ecology, or digital culture as separate subjects, Ozan treats them as interconnected fields through which questions of alienation, belonging, vulnerability, memory, and relationality can be reimagined.
With a background spanning law at Anadolu University (2007), and sculpture at Dokuz Eylul University (2013), Ozan holds an MFA from Syracuse University (2016) as a Fulbright Scholar and a Doctor of Fine Arts from Yasar University (2024). His research interests are at the intersection of speculative design, posthumanisms, and new materialisms, engaging with ecology, humanities, and digital culture through critical theory, semiotics, and visual communication. He has exhibited widely at major national and international venues, including the 16th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Montpellier Contemporain, Pera Museum, and Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst.
As an Assistant Teaching Professor of Digital Arts: Graphic Design at Florida International University, Ozan integrates research-driven, interdisciplinary, and experiential approaches into his teaching, connecting visual culture, contemporary design, and communication with critical theory, transmedia image-making, and interdisciplinary art practice.