Uğur Karataş

Çanakkale

I studied Radio, Television and Cinema at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University; from the start my interest lay outside the frame, in other forms of storytelling. In 2017 I worked at the Trojan Horse Short Film Festival and in 2018 on the coordination team of the 6th Çanakkale Biennial; the same year I was technical assistant on Seyhan Boztepe’s video work “Eren”.

İstanbul, Bozcaada and Muğla

After 2020 I made animation and motion graphics in İstanbul; that is where I learned the craft. From 2021 to 2022 I lived on Bozcaada for a year: I worked on construction sites and in a cocktail bar, and did carpentry with reclaimed material; it was a year that made me grow. In the same period I put my weight into drawing on the iPad and took traditional animation classes at Cartoon Mill from teachers from different parts of the world. From 2022 to 2024 I worked in the organisation and operation of Kayaköy Art Camp: 512 participants in a season, 14 artists and workshops a week.

Antalya

I have been in Antalya since 2024. I founded Artcycle; I run the communication and design coordination of the marble sculpture symposium to be held in Göcek in June 2027. In 2026 I began a master’s degree in Art and Design at Akdeniz University.

Research intent

I have more than one tool in hand: illustration, animation, video, artificial intelligence, the web and field coordination. So far I have used them separately and by intuition; in the master’s programme I want to bring them into line on the same track.