"Planet Beethoven" is a video-art piece by Genco Gülan. Video footage is from the artist's endoscopic left ear examination by Dr. N. Tan Ergin at American Hospital, Istanbul. Sound is the reversed version of L. von Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 32 In C Minor, Op. 111. This piece may slightly reminds us a lonley planet or a black hole. But Gülan mainly tries to dwell into the psychology of deafness in Beethoven with its electronic sound literally in one's head.
Genco Gülan is a conceptual artist with an interest in new media and performance art. His works are presented in museums such as Centre Pompidou, Pera, ZKM, MAM, Rio and La Triennale di Milano, and festivals such as Steirishes Herbst, Ars Electronica, Mediaterra, prog-me, Accente, Balkan Art and Istanbul Festival. His net-art pieces have been exhibited at Rhizome.org, and KanonMedia.com. His works are listed in required reading lists at City University, New York, Rice University and U.C. Santa Barbara. Gülan gave conferences at Yale School of Visual Arts, Köln University and New York Institute of Technology. Genco Gülan and his art has been referred to by Newsweek, Herald Tribune, NY Arts, Art in America, Art News, Das Kunst, Beaux Arts, Me Naiset and Idomenee. His book De-Constructing the Digital Revolution is published by LAP. He is the founder of iS.CaM and the Web Biennial. Currently he teaches at Mimar Sinan Academy and Bogazici University.
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