Başak Şenova

Basak Senova is an art curator, writer and designer from Istanbul, Turkey. She lives and works in Vienna since 2017.

She holds an MFA in graphic design and a PhD in art, design and architecture from Bilkent University, and is active internationally with art and technology-related projects. She attended the Seventh Curatorial Training Programme of Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam in 2002. As an assistant professor, she lectured in various universities in Turkey, including Kadir Has University, Bilgi University, Koç University and Bilkent University. In 2017 she was the resident fellow at the University of the Arts, Helsinki in co-operation with HIAP. In 2017, she received Associate Professorship by the Higher Education Council of Turkey. From 2020 to 2022, she was a visiting professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, running a research-based educational platform [https://theoctopusprogramme.uni-ak.ac.at/ “the Octopus Programme]”. Currently, she holds Senior Postdoctoral Researcher position at the University of Applied Arts Vienna with her PEEK project, awarded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
She has been writing on art art, technology and media, initiating and developing projects and curating exhibitions since 1995. Provided by Wikipedia