📣 Introducing Esra Özkan 📣 We are thrilled to have Esra join our 2025 International Selectors Committee! Esra Özkan is an independent curator and lecturer specializing in Art and Technology, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence and Media Arts. She is the artistic director of the Istanbul Digital Art Festival, and co-founder Capitart-X Media Art Lab, a decentralized, women-led initiative in digital and x-media arts operating across London, Istanbul, and Dubai. ✨ Enter the 2025 Lumen Prize ✨ 🗓️ Call for Entries closes May 23rd 💸 $30,000 Total Prize Fund 🏆 9 Categories to Enter 🔗 lumenprize.com/2025-lumen-pri… Read Esra's full bio 👇 Esra also co-founded AI & Art Studio, a platform based in Dubai that explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and artistic practice. Ozkan has over 12 years of experience in curating and managing cultural projects internationally. Her ongoing research, A Study of Algorithmic Approaches in Art and Visual Culture of the 21st Century, investigates the philosophical implications of data-driven art within the context of the Postdigital movement. She is a member of IKT (International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art), CIMAM (International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art), and AICA (International Association of Art Critics).

📢🇫🇷🇯🇵The 2024 Call for Projects of the PHC-SAKURA Program of @jsps_sns @francediplo @sup_recherche is NOW OPEN ! Covers all fields, incl. HSS. New cooperation and participation of young researchers are favoured 🗓️Deadline 3 Sept. 2024 Info & submission🔽 jp.ambafrance.org/Partenariat-Hu…