ÜNİVERSİTE ADAYLARINA DUYURULUR (Information for Candidate Students -in Turkish only).

25. July 2008 / 25 Temmuz 2008

Avrupa’nın kırsal yaşamı Ankara’da mercek altında - Towards a Deeper Understanding of Rural Europe - COMDs EU Project Kick OFF - Website - Flickr: Rural Europe 1st Steering Committee Meeting

Dear Colleagues, our 4th year student Mert Erverdi's film is in the final round for the short film award at the 15th Adana Altinkoza Film Festival. After the special award for best cinematography at the 5th Yildiz Short Film Festival and the final round participation at the 8th Kisa-ca Short Film Festival in Konya, this is the 3rd recognition for Mert and his team of COMD students. Congratulations!

PASO 08 - The program in English is available here.

GÖZÜNÜN ÇAPAGI ILA DILRUBACAN was selected Celtx Project of the Week, The project is written and directed by Selcan Dogruoz, produced by Nimet Kursuncu together with a big crew from our 4th year students. Congratulations to Selcan, Nimet and her team.

H. Mert Erverdi received with his short film "Yasli adam kara kus" (Old man black bird) the special award for cinematography at the 5th Yildiz Kisa Film Festival in Istanbul.

PASO deadline is extended till April 5th.

Koray Loker got accepted in SimpleViewer's contributors list with the Python programme which he wrote for our internal server... It's actually a stand alone free software under GPL and can be found @ https://svn.pardus.org.tr/projeler/rc4simpleviewer/

Koray's comment: "Similar server-side solutions for simpleviewer were a little bit cheesy so I prefer to write a new one... This works fine ;)"

Armagan Uslu' short film "Kofles" - produced at ComD - is online ("j'ai oublié l'adresse") now.

"I claim for the image the humility and powers of a madeleine." - Chris Marker's "Immemory" is the March exhibition in the departmental "reanimation room". All details about the "reanimation room" and its monthly exhibitions and shows are coming soon.

PASO 8 will take place from the 24. April till 27. April 2008. Link

Jan. 21, Dr. Aren Emre Kurtgozü was selected to become a member of the board of TUBITAK's "Bilim Cocuk" magazine.

The article "Fetal Culture: Ultrasound Imaging and the Formation of the Human Form" by Dr. Mahmut Mutman and Ersan Ocak is published in the January-Febraury issue of "Radical Philosophy"

Ufuk Önen's book "Ses Kayit ve Müzik Teknolojileri" (Sound Recording and Music Technologies) published by Citlembik Yayinevi is going in its 2nd edition.

Andreas Treske presented "Detailing and Pointing" on the "Video Vortex" conference by the Institute for Network Cultures in Amsterdam on the 18th January 2008.

iStorybox Workshop with Florian Thalhofer
12-14 December 2007. [Fotos], Link

"Belge-Sehir" - Workshop in Kars
European Film Festival on Wheels
November 2007. [Fotos], Link

November 2007: Terence P. Moran's new book (together with Eugene Secunda) "Selling War to America: From the Sinking of the Maine to the Global War on Terror" (Praeger, Sept. 2007) is out.

Çagri Bozok (2nd year COMD) won the second prize in Galatasaray Store Design Competition with his long-sleeve shirt design.

Yigit Sener (2nd year COMD) won the first prize in the Competition "Söhretsin" organized by Sölen Chocolate company.

2006:

COMD is a partner of the International Short Film Festival Detmold 2006. Five students from our department will participate in an international workshop during the festival. Two of their last year productions ("Ante","Fobia") will also be screened.

COMD and the "Kultur & Art Initiative e.V." Detmold received two grants from the EU and the Ministry of Culture to bring 15 young filmmakers from Turkey and two advisors together with young German filmmakers to participate in this event. More about this can be read on the "Gergedan"
website.

The Department of Communication and Design is one of Turkey's leaders in the field of media theory and media practice. The research of our staff is at the forefront of media and cultural studies in Turkey since the departments foundation in 1998.

The Department of Communication and Design is a response to the growing need of our increasingly globalized and networked world in which mass communications and visual technologies of various kinds play a fundamental role.

Therefore the Department of Communication and Design aims to educate media professionals, with a special emphasis on visual communication and visual technologies, specifically in the fields of advertising, journalism, visual design, video and TV production and new media. Our rationale is to produce knowledgeable and responsible media professionals who are able to respond to the urgent needs of development and globalization in effective ways.

The departments curriculum is designed to give the students a thorough grounding in basic professional skills and competencies in the above-mentioned areas. As we believe that such professional skills and the nature of the field require students who are knowledgeable in social sciences, humanities and arts, the curriculum includes several courses in these fields.