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Born in Turkey in 1982, Alkan Avcıoğlu is an artist working across visual art, film, and sound using artificial intelligence. Drawing on a multidisciplinary background in film criticism, electronic music, and academic research, his work has been exhibited internationally in New York, Paris, Berlin, London, Shanghai, Mexico City, Milan, and Toronto. Avcıoğlu is among the first artists working with artificial intelligence to have been presented at major international art fairs, including Paris Photo, Art Basel, Zona Maco, and PhotoVogue. His works have entered museum and private collections, and his work was featured in Christie’s inaugural auction dedicated to artificial intelligence art.

In 2025, Avcıoğlu directed Post Truth, widely cited as the first AI-generated feature-length documentary. The film has screened at more than thirty international film festivals, including the Warsaw International Film Festival, Fantasporto, and Festival dei Popoli, and secured theatrical distribution across multiple international territories.

His recent collaboration with renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky, Hypertopographics, was selected as a finalist for the 2026 Lumen Prize. Following presentations in New York and Paris, the project was shown at the Edirne Biennale and will be exhibited at the Troy Museum as part of the Çanakkale Biennale. In 2026, his solo exhibition The Death of the Camera opened the season at Istanbul’s Maçka Art Gallery during its 50th anniversary year. His work was also featured in major institutional exhibitions, including Tell Me Where Home Is at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg and On Landscape at Haus am Lützowplatz in Berlin. Avcıoğlu continues to lecture on artificial intelligence, art, and the moving image at Istanbul Kent University.