Artist Bio

Can Büyükberber is a Visual Artist and A.I. Director whose interdisciplinary practice fuses art, technology, and science to push the boundaries of human perception and digital experience. Working with generative AI, immersive audiovisual installations, spatial computing, and digital sculptures, he creates cinematic works that blur the line between physical and virtual realms. Scroll down to explore a wide-ranging biography shaped by his cross-disciplinary education, artist residencies, keynote talks, and panel appearances, reflecting a research-driven exploration of emerging media and expanded forms of perception.

CAN BÜYÜKBERBER
Visual Artist • A.I. Director • Futurist • Speaker
Art & Tech MFA • Fulbright Scholar


Can Büyükberber (b. 1987 in Izmir, pronounced "Jon") is a visionary artist and director whose work fuses art and technology to explore the boundaries of human perception. Through generative AI, immersive installations, digital sculptures, and spatial computing, he creates cinematic, futuristic experiences that blur the lines between physical and digital realms. Fueled by interdisciplinary thinking across art, design, and science, he explores methods for non-linear storytelling, geometrical order, synergetics, and emergent forms. His work transforms complex ideas into multisensory experiences, turning the conceptual into the experiential.
Education and Residencies
With a background in Physics and Visual Communication Design, he earned his Master of Fine Arts in Art and Technology from the San Francisco Art Institute as a Fulbright Scholar. He has been selected for prestigious residencies including Autodesk’s Pier 9 and Adobe’s Augmented Reality Artist Residency, where he developed avant-garde XR projects in state-of-the-art workshops. He was also a resident artist at Frequency Lab in New York City, focusing on guided meditation experiences for geodesic domes. Since December 2024, he has been part of the Runway AI's Creative Partners Program.
Exhibitions and Collaborations
Büyükberber’s immersive audiovisual works have been exhibited worldwide in museums, galleries, and media art festivals such as ZKM Karlsruhe, Ars Electronica Linz, SAT Montreal, Sonar+D Barcelona, and the California Academy of Sciences. Other notable exhibitions include the Exploratorium, Dolby Gallery San Francisco, Akbank Sanat Istanbul, Art Futura Rome, MUTEK.JP Tokyo, Signal Festival Prague, BFI Film Festival London, MIRA Festival Barcelona, VRHAM! Festival in Moscow, Venice, and Hamburg, Contemporary Istanbul, ArtAnkara, ZeroSpace New York City, Art Basel Miami, and Art Dubai Digital, among others.

His collaborations span Grammy-winning rock band Tool, Shigeto, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, and major brands including Apple, Adobe, BMW, Hennessy and Dolby Labs.
Talks and Panels
He has delivered keynote talks and artist presentations at international forums such as Today at Apple, FITC Toronto, the Envision Conference at Princeton University, Adobe Research, and Autodesk Pier 9. He also served as a Design-Tech Education Fellow at NuVu Studio, an MIT-affiliated innovation school in Cambridge and Hawaii, and was invited as opening speaker and jury member at the Image Beyond the Screen International Conference in Lille, France.

In Turkey, he has presented at leading universities including Boğaziçi, Sabancı, Bilgi, Kadir Has, Başkent, İzmir University of Economics, and Işık University, as well as the İzmir Mediterranean Biennale. His panel appearances include ArtAnkara, Türkiye Innovation Week, AI Tomorrow Summit, Akbank Sanat, UNESCO’s Virtual Ocean Literacy Summit, the Creative Explorations Conference in Greece, and the Eurasiagraphics Conference. He has also been a featured speaker at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, a panelist at San Francisco Design Week, and a guest lecturer at California College of the Arts.
Featured Publications & Media
Buyukberber has been widely covered in international media including WIRED, Forbes, Rolling Stone, American Cinematographer, San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out, and Gazete Oksijen. He has also been featured in specialist publications such as 3D Artist Magazine, IdN, Bant Magazine, Exhibist Magazine, The Creator's Project, Fubiz, Artful Living, Artisans, Mercado, Space Magazine. Interviews and features include appearances on State of the Art podcast, Digilogue podcast, Venü Magazine, CNN Türk, La Repubblica, TRT World, and Design Milk, reflecting his influence at the intersection of digital art, science, and culture.
His work has been referenced in numerous exhibition catalogues and academic theses, often through interviews for graduate and doctoral research; appeared on the cover of Contemporary Topics in Computer Graphics and Games (Peter Lang, 2019) and Conversations on Quantum Gravity (Cambridge University Press, 2021), and has been featured in books such as Citix60 Istanbul Edition (Viction:ary) and New Media Installation: Technology in Public Art (Sandu Publishing, 2018).

Research and Impact
Can Buyukberber's contributions to the interdisciplinary domain of art, science, and technology offers valuable insights into the evolving landscape of digital narrative structures. By exploring the relationship between human perception and digital interfaces, he advances the frontiers of immersive spatial experiences and research-driven experiential design. As a pioneering A.I. Director, he employs generative artificial intelligence as a creative collaborator, redefining authorship, form, and the future of visual storytelling through a synthesis of digital sculpture, cinematic language, and algorithmic aesthetics.

“I see emerging technologies as cognitive instruments that extend perception, with 3D and generative tools offering new ways to shape thought into immersive forms. They allow me to sculpt complexity, simulate impossible spaces, and render abstract ideas as visions of the future.

My interest lies not only in the visual experience and its aesthetics but in how it reflects deeper patterns of consciousness, time, and the evolving dimensions of human experience. Technical fluency matters, yet what guides me more is a sensitivity to these fundamental forces. My process unfolds at the intersection of a simulation aware mindset and artistic impulse, where technology becomes a medium for inner landscapes to take shape, suggesting new realities.”


EDUCATION
2015 – 2017
San Francisco Art Institute
Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Art and Technology

2008 – 2012 / High Honors
Istanbul Bilgi University
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Visual Communication Design

2005 – 2008
Istanbul University
Physics


ARTIST RESIDENCIES
DEC 2024 – Present
Runway Creative Partners Program, USA
JAN 2019 – JUNE 2019
Frequency Consciousness NYC, New York, USA
JAN 2018 – APR 2018
Adobe Augmented Reality Residency, San Francisco, USA
FEB 2017 – JUNE 2017
Autodesk Pier 9 Residency, San Francisco, USA
SEP 2016 – MARCH 2017
Luminary, Art | Tech | Music, San Francisco, USA
JURY
2022 - Humboldt Int'l Film Festival, Arcata, California
2022 - Video Mapping Awards , Lille, France


AWARDS 
2016 - Cadogan Scholarship / Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards
2015 - SFAI Fulbright Fellowship 

2015 - Fulbright Scholarship
2008 - Istanbul Bilgi University, Full Tuition Scholarship


WORK EXPERIENCE 
JULY 2019 – DECEMBER 2019
Design-Tech Education Fellow at NuVu
Future Augmented Reality Studio at MIT, Cambridge, MA
Design & Innovation Studios at Kamehameha School Maui, Hawaii

JUNE 2017 – MAY 2018
Art Director at Obscura Digital
MAY 2013 – PRESENT
Visual Artist & Director at Can Buyukberber
SEP 2015 – DEC 2015
Teaching Assistant at SFAI
Intro to Art and Technology course by Lasse Scherfigg PhD.

FEB 2011 – MAY 2013
Senior Art Director at Antilop
SEP 2008 – JAN 2011
Designer at Istanbul Bilgi University
SEP 2006 – JAN 2011
VFX Artist & Motion Designer at Freelance

ONLINE
FB Artist Page: facebook.com/cbuyukberber
Instagram: instagram.com/cbuyukberber/ 
Portfolio: canbuyukberber.com/
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/buyukberber/
X Profile: x.com/cbuyukberber

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CONTACT
canbuyukberber [at] gmail.com
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2025 - Cognitive Horizons, Eksizden Piksele Human Edition, Bursa, TR
2025 - Relics of the Holocene v2.0, w/ Sevil Dolmaci Gallery, Art Dubai, UAE
2025 - Monolit 2.0: The Iconic Glow, CI Bloom, Istanbul, TR
2025 - Cognitive Horizons, Expo Sunderland Public Art Programme, UK
2025 - Metafold: The 7 Collection, w/ Borusan Contemporary, ArtAnkara, TR
2025 - Future Elegance, AIVERSE w/ Capitart X, Kanvas Dubai, UAE
2025 - Primordial Force, Art Futura, Palacio Neptuna, Madrid, Spain
2024 - Cosmic Weave, Public Art w/ StandardVision, Long Beach Airport, CA
2024 - Animuse, w/ Noemi Manser, Galerie Au Roi, Paris, France
2024 - Fragments, Istanbul Culture Road Festival, Galataport, TR
2024 - Cosmic Weave, Public Art w/ StandardVision, Circa LA, Los Angeles, CA
2024 - Cognitive Horizons, OHBM BrainArt Exhibition, Seoul, South Korea
2024 - Cosmic Weave, Spectrum Group Show, SEED Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2024 - IAA Energy Innovation Summit, Swissnex, Pier 17, San Francisco, CA
2024 - Relics of the Holocene, Izmir Mediterranean Biennale, Izmir, TR
2024 - Hyperspace, T10X Experience, CES 2024, Las Vegas, NV
2023 - Cosmic Weave, Turkiye Innovation Week, Istanbul, TR
2023 - Cosmic Weave, Antalya Culture Road Festival, Antalya, TR
2023 - Cosmic Weave, Ephesus Culture Road Festival, Izmir, TR
2023 - Primordial Particles, Beyoglu Culture Road Festival, Grand Pera, TR
2023 - Primordial Particles, Troy Culture Road Festival, TR
2023 - Primordial Force, Cappadocia Culture Road Festival, TR
2023 - Primordial Force, Wired World, Artemis Gallaery Lisbon, Portugal
2023 - Monday Mixer, Live Visual Set w/ DJ Efsharp, FITC Toronto 2023

2023 - METAXY, IAA Mobile Art Station, Tenderloin Arts Festival, San Francisco, CA
2023 - Morphogenesis, Festival des Arts Numériques Immersifs, Paris, FR
2023 - A Decade of Change, Art Dubai 2023, Artemis Gallery Lisbon, Dubai, UAE
2022 - PF: Triptych, Turkiye Innovation Week, Haliç Congress Center, Istanbul, TR
2022 - Metafold 04, Art Republic Monolith, SCOPE Miami Beach, FL
2022 - Primordial Force, Digital Ritual w/ VELLUM LA, Miami, FL

2022 - PF: Triptych, Eskizden Piksele, TBMM & Cumhuriyet Muzesi, Ankara, TR
2022 - Primordial Force, ULTRAMARIN, VRHAM!, Venice, Italy
2022 - METAXY,  Oakland Festival of Immersive Arts, Oakland, CA

2022 - Hyperconnection, The Connected Brain, OHBM 2022, Glasgow, UK
2022 - Primordial Force, ULTRAMARIN, VRHAM!, Hamburg, Germany
2022- Metafold: The 7 Collection, Tersane Istanbul, TR
2022 - Primordial Force, ART & TECH for GOOD SUMMIT 2022, Istanbul, TR
2022 - MONOLiT, w/ Borusan Contemporary & BMW Turkey, CI Bloom, Istanbul
2022 - Multiverse, Unlimited Creations, Artemis Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
2022 - Primordial Force, Digital Art on Campus, Bogazici University, Istanbul, TR
2022 - Primordial Force, Now in Digital Art, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, TR
2021 - Metafold Collection w/ Art Republic & SuperRare, Miami Art Week, FL
2021 - MONOLiT, w/ Borusan Contemporary & BMW Turkey, Kanyon, Istanbul
2021 - MARFA ROOM, w/ synthesis gallery & Danae.io, Online
2021 - Primordial Force, Plugin New Media, Contemporary Istanbul, TR
2021 - XX, FITC Reflections 2021 Collection, NFT Drop, Toronto, Canada
2021 - Primordial Force, enLIGHTen Festival, Atlantic Beach, FL, USA
2021 - Primordial Force, ULTRAMARIN Festival, Moscow, Russia
2021 - Liquid Flower, Techne Art, Adnan Saygun Art Center, Izmir, TR

2021 - Bodyscapes, #000000 X #FFFFFF, NOBU Art Project, Antalya, TR
2021 -  “Ubiquity” Video Screening, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, TR
2021 - Metafold 03, w/ Sedition, TBD Conference, London, UK

2021 - Human Connection, A Minute for Art w/ Globart, Istanbul Grand Airport
2020 - Apparitions, Plugin New Media, Contemporary Istanbul, TR
2020 - Hidden-Variable, Step Istanbul, Istanbul, TR
2020 - Mati, The Great Exhibition Road Festival, London, UK
2020 - Noumenon, LFF Expanded, BFI London Film Festival 2020, UK

2020 - Metafold 03, w/ Sedition, Art.Lab at World Art Dubai, UAE
2020 - Transient | Triptych, SIMULAKRA, Metaspace by Decol, Istanbul, TR

2020 - Multiverse | Triptych, Art on Screen, MixerArts, Istanbul, TR
2020 - VRHAM! Virtual Reality & Arts Festival, Hamburg, Germany
2020 - Metafold 03, APEIRON, Web Biennial, Istanbul, TR
2020 - Multiverse, Technology & the Arts, LH Horton Jr Art Gallery, San Joaquin, CA

2019 - Noumenon, ZeroSpace, New York City, USA
2019 - Frequency w/ Lulu Lemon, SXSW, Austin, USA
2018 - Morphogenesis v.2, MUTEK.JP, Tokyo, Japan
2018 - Spatial Reality: Artists Explore the Future of XR, sp[a]ce, Pasadena, USA
2018 - Stimuli Space, The Midway Gallery, SF, USA

2018 - City Unseen, Snap! Orlando, Florida, USA
2018 - ColorVibes, Beijing, China
2018 - Multiverse, Plugin New Media, Contemporary Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

2018 - Faces[On]Display, RedBull Art Around, Istanbul, Turkey
2018 - Multiverse, Intersezioni Digitali, Italy
2018 - Faces[On]Display, Festival of the Impossible, Minnesota Street Project, SF, USA
2018 - Left to Her Own Devices w/ Capacitor, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF, USA
2018 - Faces[On]Display, Redefining Impossibilities, Adobe Research, SF, USA
2018 - Morphogenesis, Llum BCN Light Festival, Barcelona, Spain
2018 -
"Sim/Nebula", w/ The Macula & Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague

2017 - Open Codes: Living in Digital Worlds, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2017 - Official Selection, Geneva International Film Festival, Geneva, Switzerland
2017 - Montreal International Mapping Festival, Never Apart, Quebec, Canada
2017 - Field of View Series, Exploratorium, San Francisco, USA
2017 - Moshi II, Microsoft Envision Conference, Orlando, USA

2017 - "Exciting Possibilities" Plugin New Media, Contemporary Istanbul, Turkey
2017 - VR Lab Selection, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
2017 - Vortex 2.0 @ Morrison Planetarium, CalAcademy, San Francisco, USA
2017 - Dolby Art Series, Dolby HQ, San Francisco, USA
2017 - "Morphogenesis", SF Design Week, Pier 27, San Francisco, USA
2017 - "Morphogenesis", Sonar+D 2017, Barcelona, Spain
2017 - "Dimensions" Group Show, Mirus Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2017 - Pier 9 AiR Final Show, Autodesk, San Francisco, USA

2017 - SFAI MFA/MA Graduate Exhibition, The Mint, San Francisco, USA
2017 - "Non Linear Perspectives" Gray Area Art + Technology, San Francisco, USA
2017 - "Digital Creatures" Group Show, Art Futura Roma, Ex Dogana, Rome, Italy
2017 - Luminary Art | Tech | Music, The Midway SF, San Francisco, USA
2016 - "MUSE" The Village, San Francisco, USA

2016 -  “Nonspaces” Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey

2016 - "Morphogenesis", Envision Conference, Princeton University, Princeton, USA
2016 - "Morphogenesis", Mira Festival, Barcelona, Spain 10.2016
2016 - "Morphogenesis", Signal Festival, Prague, Czech Republic [EXTENDED]
2016 - "Morphogenesis", Kaleidoscope Showcase Vol.01, San Francisco, USA
2016 - "Morphogenesis", AES 2016, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles USA
2016 - "Sub·se·quence" Group Show, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, United States
2016 - "Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition", SOMArts, SF, USA
2016 - "Morphogenesis", VRLA, Los Angeles Convention Center, United States
2016 - "Art & Virtual Reality" Group Show, Upload VR, San Francisco, United States
2016 - "Morphogenesis", Currents New Media Festival, Santa Fe, United States
2016 - "Morphogenesis", Mira Festival Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2016 - "Morphogenesis", Symposium IX 2016, SAT, Montreal, Canada 
2016 - "From Bits to Atoms", Residence/SF, San Francisco, United States
2016 - "From Bits to Atoms", San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, United States
2015 - "Morphogenesis v.01" SFAI Concentrate Festival, San Francisco, United States
2015 - "e:merge v.02", Plugin New Media Section, Contemporary Istanbul, Turkey 
2015 - "e:merge v.02", Wavelengths, Europalia Turkey, Brussels, Belgium 
2015 - "Sim/Nebula", w/ The Macula & Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague
2015 - "Solenoid", w/ Ouchhh, IX Immersion Experience Symposium, Montreal, Canada
2015 - "Solenoid", w/ Ouchhh, Elektra 16, Montreal, Canada
2015 - "Unfold 01", Prizma Group Show, Prizma Space, Istanbul, Turkey
2014 - "e:merge", Signal Light Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
2012 - "Epiphaneia", International Digital Arts Biennial, Montreal, Canada
2012 - "Legorreta Alive", SantaFe Art and Design University, New Mexico, United States 
2012 - ''VIII. Circuit'', International Contemporary Art Fair, Budapest, Hungary
2011 - "Track 10", ÇSM, santralistanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
2011 - "Shadow Lab", Köln International School of Design, Köln, Germany
2010 - "Track 09", ÇSM, santralistanbul, Istanbul, Turkey



SELECTED  TALKS & WORKSHOPS
2025 - CB Artistic Trajectory 2010-2025, Baskent University, Ankara
2025 - CB Artistic Trajectory 2010-2025, Izmir University of Economics
2025 - Panel: Metafold, Creativity and Its Narratives in the 21st Century, ArtAnkara
2024 - Panel: The Power of Innovation in Creative Industries, Turkiye Innovation Week
2024 - The Doors of Metaverse,  Izmir University of Economics, Online
2023 - The Doors of Metaverse,  Creative Coding Class, Sabanci University, Online

2023 - Artist Presentation, Izmir Mediterranean Biennale, Portuguese Synagogue
2023 - The Doors of Metaverse,  Isik University Design Days, Online
2023 - The Doors of Metaverse, FITC Toronto 2023, Toronto, Canada
2023 - The Doors of Metaverse, Kadis Has University, Istanbul
2023 - Panel: Metaverse: A New Universe, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul
2023 - Panel: Impact of Technology on Art and Culture, AI Tomorrow Summit 2023
2022 - "Immersive Experiences: Sensory Hybrid Spaces,  Art and Tech for Good Summit

2022 -Artist Talk, New Dimensions, Digital Art on Campus, Bilgi University, santralistanbul
2022 - Artist Talk, Image Beyond Screen International Conference, Lille , France
2021 - Keynote: New Dimensions, ADhere, Bogazici University, Istanbul

2021 - Art Lab: New Dimensions with Can Buyukberber, Today at Apple, Istanbul
2021 - Talk: Digital Art & Immersive Experiences, Akbank Youth Academy, Online
2021 - Podcast: Creation with Technology #1, Digilogue, Vestel PSM Radio
2021 - Panel: w/ Oggusto Academy & E-Varan, Online
2021 - Panel: w/ Euromersive, Online
2020 - Talk: Creating Immersive Experiences with AR, Eurasiagraphics 2020
2020 - Live: Web Biennial 2020 APEIRON w/ Ipek Yeginsu
2020 - Panel: Bios | Creative Explorations Conference, Greece
2020 - Panel: Virtual Ocean Literacy Summit, UNESCO-IOC, Global Broadcast

2020 - Live: Small Screens, Big Ideas |  Talk Series, Immersive Arts Alliance
2020 - Live: Synthesis Gallery VR  Walkthrough w/ Jesse Damiani
2020 - Talk: Digital Art Now, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul
2020 - Podcast: The Art of Digital Immersion, State of the Art Podcast
2019 - Talk: Boston Tech Poetics,  NuVu, Boston, MA

2019 - Talk: Creating Immersive Experiences with AR, FITC,  Toronto, Canada
2019 - Panel: Bringing Spaces to Life with Digital Art, FITC,  Toronto, Canada

2018 - Panel: Future Of Motion Design, CAMP, Calgary, Canada
2018 - Talk: Creating Immersive Experiences with AR, CAMP,  Calgary, Canada
2017 - Guest Lecturer: California College of Arts, Oakland
2017 - Talk: 01 Salon,The Midway Gallery, San Francisco
2017 - Talk: SF Content Creators, Adobe Research, San Francisco

2017 - Panel: Roles of Art & Tech. in Shaping Our Environments, SF Design Week, SF, CA
2016 - Talk: Spotlight Discussion Series, Creativity Explored, San Francisco

2016 - Workshop: Virtual Reality, Envision Conference, Princeton University
2016 - Talk: Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, Creative Code Meetup XXIII, San Francisco
2015 - Workshop: Projection Mapping , San Francisco Art Institute
2014 - Talk: Behance Portfolio Review Week Istanbul / Bahcesehir University
2010 - Workshop: Introduction to Motion Graphics Design / Istanbul Bilgi University, VCD 
2009 - Workshop: Introduction to Motion Graphics Design / Istanbul Bilgi University, VCD 
2008 - Workshop: Visual Effects & Compositing / Bahcesehir University, VCD
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