Cihat Arinc

Born Kayseri, Turkey, 1981. Art director and project specialist at Kultur Co., Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (2006-). Instructor of philosophical aesthetics and board member at the Center for Fine Arts and Art Studies, Foundation for Sciences and Arts, Istanbul (2006-). BA Media and Film Studies, Istanbul University (2003); MA Philosophy, Bogazici University (2008), thesis title “Against Historicism and Aestheticism: Walter Benjamin’s Critical Philosophy of Film” co-supervised by Zeynep Davran and Yildiz Silier. Published in journals including Cogito and Divan Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. Contributed to talks, panels, colloquia and international conferences including at University of Birmingham (UK), University of Kentucky (USA), Ege University (Turkey), Foundation for Sciences and Arts (Turkey).

Research project title: Digitized Heterotopia: A Phenomenology of Contemporary Museum Space; philosophical aesthetics, phenomenology of art, epistemology of the visual arts, critical theory, postdigital conception of space-time, museology and curatorial studies, psychoanalytic film theory, contemporary art practices, contemporary Islamic arts, Middle Eastern visual cultures.