Özge Samancı

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Özge Samancı

Özge Samancı (born July 21, 1975 near Izmir ) is a Turkish cartoonist and installation artist .

Life and education

In 1999 she completed her mathematics studies at the Bosporus University in Istanbul and finished her master’s degree at the Film and Television Institute of Bilgi University in 2001 . After deciding to make a living drawing, she started drawing for up to ten hours a day to improve her technique. She had a part-time job as a teaching assistant at the design institute, as she only earned $ 100 a month with her job as a draftsman for one of the most famous Turkish satirical magazines, LeMan . Her comics have also been featured in the monthly Milliyet Sanat and Altyazi magazines. Samanci immigrated to the US in 2003 and began a second master's degree at the School of Communication Studies in Ohio , which she graduated in 2005. She wrote her dissertation on digital media in 2009 at the School of Literature Communication and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology . From 2009 to 2011 she was employed at the Department of Art and Practice at Berkeley University in California and then taught in the Department of Radio, TV and Film at Northwestern University .

In 2016 she was a member of the jury for The Extraordinary Book of the Children and Youth Program of the Berlin International Literature Festival .

Artistic activity

Ordinary Things is an online diary by Samanci in which she records various everyday or political observations in comic or collage form. It was actually supposed to be a blog for her friends, but the readership soon grew beyond Samanci's circle of friends.

Planting Comics was an exhibition from June to November 2010 that featured a variety of ceramic tiles printed with comics in the University of California Botanical Gardens .

Samanci's comics are published in various Turkish journals and magazines, and some of her works have been shown at various exhibitions. In addition to comics, Samanci works on interactive installations that create a relationship between people and technology and address the human intervention in nature. Examples of this are Fiber Optic Ocean , the installations Sneaky Time and Relative Friend , which deal with the relativity of perceived time . Samanci taught at various colleges.

In 2015 her autobiographical graphic novel Dare to Disappoint: Growing up in Turkey was published . This tells the story of the little Özge who dreams of becoming a diver. However, her parents want her and her sister to become engineers. In Turkey at the time, however, there are conflicts between representatives of secularization and fundamentalists. In this world, Özge tries to find a way for himself that not only satisfies society and its parents, but also makes them happy. The book is divided into 15 chapters, which anecdotally describe different episodes from Özge's life.

Public performances

In September 2016, Özge Samanci appeared in the children's and youth program at the 16th Berlin International Literature Festival .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b who's who: ozge samanci. In: www.turkishculture.org. Retrieved June 21, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Interview: Özge Samanci on Art, Family, and a Love of Learning. In: The Beat. December 1, 2015, accessed June 21, 2016 .
  3. ↑ ordinary things. Retrieved June 21, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Planting Comics. In: www.ordinarycomics.com. Retrieved June 21, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Ozge Samanci Portfolio. In: ordinarycomics.com. Retrieved June 21, 2016 .
  6. ^ Fiber Optic Ocean. In: www.ordinarycomics.com. Retrieved June 21, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Sneaky TIme: Interactive Installation. In: www.ordinarycomics.com. Retrieved June 21, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Relative Friend: Interactive Installation. In: www.ordinarycomics.com. Retrieved June 21, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Samanci, Özge
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Samancı, Özge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish cartoonist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH near Izmir