Tugce Yücetürk

she/none Leipzig, Germany Sculptor, Artist

Biography

After working with ceramic art for three years, Tugce Yücetürk began studying sculpture in Turkey from 2007. In 2014, Tugce moved to Carrara to study sculpture. Tugce learned to carve marble, took courses in netart and digital modeling, and eventually wrote a master’s thesis on digital art and monuments. In 2021, Tugce received a scholarship from Deutscher Künstlerbund.

Currently, Tugce is actively engaged in digital modeling and 3D printing and is artistically exploring what the future of monuments could be.

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In Tugces Project "Digital Memories" explores how a contemporary approach can take a serious look at what normalizes immortalization and after death. Remembrance is important. The contrary between the world before the pre-digital era and after digital de-humanization and devaluation of people. We could be on an algorithm, or you can even witness people's death experiences shared videos they are nameless. Unconsented porn, humiliated victims of these videos are nameless.

But what if we can work on memorials that can re-humanize lost ones? The digital world has its codes that can be more durable than marble. It could be more immortal than our aspects of infinity in the living world. It is not a way of an approach to creating chat-bots that imitate our decesed relatives, but a space abstract from keeping the sense of our loved ones with a digital dimensional.

Yet, in a moral sense, what material can be is not of what but for who if issues like femicide or war crimes is a sort of Saints, a martyr who believes in excellence and a positive future of humankind. That unexpected things happen to these victims because they are unarmed and have hope and a belief in free life and the right to live before these disturbances of glitches and darken souls of persistent misery of the lousy anonymity in action.