Özge Samancı
Özge Samancı (born 21 July 1975 in İzmir) is a Turkish American artist, and professor at Northwestern University. She creates media art installations and graphic novels. Her art installations merge computer code and bio-sensors with comics, animation, interactive narrations, performance, and projection art. Her installations use media arts to break down people's mental and emotional barriers and hear about environmental issues. Her graphic novels combine drawings with three-dimensional objects.She is the author of Dare to Disappoint (Farrar Straux Giroux, 2015), an autobiographical graphic novel. She won a 2017 Berlin Prize and 2020 Distinguished Alumna Award from Georgia Institute of Technology.
Turkish artist and academic
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