Graduate Student, Communications Dept., UC San Diego

Ayhan Aytes is a Visual Media researcher with a special focus on ethno-cultural interfaces. His recent project, “Remembrance of Media Past,” explores various interaction models for alternative cultural representations in digital media, influenced by visual analysis of pre-modern media such as illuminated manuscripts, maps and miniature books. His photography and multimedia works were recently exhibited in a joint project in Istanbul, “Reading the City of Signs: Istanbul: Revealed or Mystified.” He holds a master’s degree in Communication Design from the Institute of Design in Chicago. He is currently a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at the University of California San Diego.

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Contributions to Transliteracies Project:
Remembrance of Media Past