Ozan Atalan is a visual artist and researcher whose interdisciplinary work bridges speculative art, graphic design, sculpture, posthumanism, and critical media studies. As an Assistant Teaching Professor of Graphic Arts at Florida International University, he integrates research-driven, transmedia approaches into his teaching and practice.

With a background spanning law at Anadolu University (2007), and sculpture at Dokuz Eylul University (2013), Ozan holds an MFA from Syracuse University (2016) as a Fulbright Scholar and a Doctor of Fine Arts from Yasar University (2024). His work explores the connections between social and natural sciences—psychology, anthropology, ecology, and quantum physics—while examining how culture-specific social phenomena interact with the surrounding wilderness. Through immersive video installations, hybrid media, and sculptural interventions, he investigates these relationships in depth. Exploring themes of coevolution, eco-queer performativity, and the entanglement of human and nonhuman forms, his practice questions the ethical, ontological, and aesthetic implications of an increasingly technologized world.

Ozan’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at the 16th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Montpellier Contemporain, Pera Museum, Seoul Media Art Festival, and Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst. Open to critique and dialogue, he sees his practice as an evolving dialogue with the world - one that challenges anthropocentric narratives and embraces speculative, ethical, cross-disciplinary futures.

Ozan Atalan’s research engages deeply with these ideas. He holds a Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Yasar University, where he completed his thesis, Coevolutionary Aesthetics from a Non-Anthropocentric Perspective (2024). His work critically examines how art, ecology, digital culture, and posthumanist theory intersect, challenging anthropocentric worldviews and proposing new aesthetic frameworks for speculative design. By merging art, design, technology, and nature, his research explores the ethical and conceptual possibilities of coevolution, rethinking humanity’s relationship with the nonhuman world and reimagining speculative design as an intersection of new realisms in art and design.

The theory explained in this website is extracted from the dissertation, and reflects the collaborative work of Ozan Atalan and Chong-ha Peter Lee as the artist duo Antinomy.
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