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