Funnel 40/2, Inhalt - Fulbright-Kommission

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“Now,” a photograph by Cem Yuecetas
in collaboration with Adolfo Ignacio Alcala
THE FUNNEL • VOLUME 40 • NUMBER 2 • SUMMER 2004
Cem Yuecetas
“Why am I here?” This is the first question
I asked myself when the cab driver
dropped me off. To learn. To learn something
new. I want to absorb as much new information
as possible, and one way to do that
is ask, ask, and ask again. This questioning
results in an overwhelming abundance of
information.
The concept behind my visuals is
twofold. The images illustrate this idea of
information culture and the speed at which
technology changes the way we do things, as
well as the way we express ourselves.
To live between the ideal and rhetoric challenges
one’s personal paradigms. On the one
hand, we are so involved with what exists within
our physical environment. On the other
hand, we alienate ourselves, seeking refuge in
another kind of truth: the search for the perfect
knowledge of what exists behind all this
chaos. The human organism is struggling to
meet and affirm a more suitable version of itself.
Limitless usage of communication prevents
individual discovery between ‘you’ and ‘me’
and the space in which we are living. Is this a
new dilemma, or has it always been this way?
I created a series of images to describe this
kind of dysfunctional over-communication,
which leads to people’s individual loneliness.
Cem Yuecetas is working towards a Master
of Fine Arts degree at the Academy of Art
College in San Francisco, California.