Bilkent COMD

Applications Open: MA in Media and Visual Studies at Bilkent University 🎓 We are now accepting applications for the 2026-2027 academic year. Our Master of Arts program in Media and Visual Studies offers an interdisciplinary environment for those looking to advance their research and critical analysis skills in the fields of communication, design, and culture. 🗓 Application Deadline: May 15, 2026 📍 Visit the official COMD website for application requirements and details.

🇪🇺 Avrupa Günü kutlamaları kapsamında CERModern Flow Dijital Sahne’de yer alan Ecem Dilan Köse’nin “Maddeye Dönüşmek” adlı eseri ile Bilkent Üniversitesi İletişim ve Tasarım Bölümü’nün kolektif çalışması “İz” dijital sergilerini ziyaret etmek için son fırsat! 🖼️ 🌿 Doğa, dijital teknoloji ve çağdaş sanatı bir araya getiren bu benzersiz ve sürükleyici deneyimi kaçırmayın. 📍CERModern Flow Dijital Sahne 📆 Son gün: 17 Mayıs 🕙 Ziyaret saatleri: 10.00 – 12.00 🎟️ Giriş ücretsiz 🇪🇺🇹🇷 🇪🇺 Last chance to visit “Becoming Matter” by Ecem Dilan Köse and collective work “Residue” by Bilkent University Department of Communication and Design at the Flow Digital Theatre of CERModern as part of Europe Day celebrations! 🖼️ 🌿 Don’t miss this unique immersive artistic experience bringing together nature, digital technology and contemporary art. 📍CERModern Flow Digital Theatre 📆 Final day: 17 May 🕙 Visiting hours: 10.00 a.m. – 12.00 p.m. 🎟️ Free admission

PART I: COMDEye’26... What an evening! ✨ Films looped in four rooms, work spilled across the basement floor, and the building filled up with everyone who made it happen: students, faculty, families, friends. A year’s worth of projects, all in one place, all in one night. Thank you to everyone who joined us ! We couldn’t have hoped for a better way to close the year. Until next year. #comdrocks Photos: @sertan_yalcinkaya

COMDEye'26 Screening Programme 🎬 Tonight, in the exhibition, four screening rooms run student films in parallel. Move between rooms as you like. See you tonight! ✨ #comdrocks

And... It's that time of the year we've all been waiting for. ✨
 COMD EYE 2026, our End of Year Exhibition takes place on Thursday, 14 May, 17.30–20.00 at the FF Building, Basement Floor.
 A year's worth of projects, films, designs, photographs, and sounds, all gathered into a single evening. We'd love to have you with us as we mark the close of the academic year together.
 Please note: the exhibition will be open for one day only. Illustration: Parla Aybar #comdrocks

The dual digital exhibition by @ecemdilankose and @bilkent_comd , under the leadership of @kasputnik and realized on the occasion of the #EuropeDay2026 is the combination of my two great passions and obsessions: #EU and #arts. So proud to be in the team that realized it…To me, the message given by @euinturkiye in supporting this exhibition is a strong one: “We care about creative young artists who care about our cultural and natural heritage and want to carry this heritage to the future.” These young artists do not dwell in dystopia - despite all challenges, they have the mindset, the will, the energy to make things better. This is exactly how I think EU should be in those uncertain and challenging times… So please go see the exhibition and let us all reflect how we can make the world a bit better in our daily work … and let us reflect on what we want to see in COP31! #europeanunion #may9 @eudiplomacy @culturecivic @cermodern @pinaralkan_ @vince_pacha @denizzyenal @diditut @svb1976 @selda_duzenli.cavdar

You are kindly invited to the COMD 482 VCP Exhibition, exploring memory as a layered, fragmented, and deeply personal terrain. The exhibition brings together works that navigate the traces we carry. Through images, materials, and forms that reconstruct what is remembered, forgotten, and felt. Defne Özsu Demir Baloğlu Elif Naz Genel Eylül Esmer Kayıhan Kayıgil Rüzgar Ulaş Tecelli Sahand Azimidizaj Selin Tosun FADA Gallery, Bilkent University May 6, 2026 We look forward to seeing you there.

Residue / İz opens at CerModern Flow on 6 May, as part of Europe Day. “Data, rendered visible, is residue. Salt is residue. Glitch is residue.” Residue / İz, a group exhibition by students of the Department of Communication and Design, Melih Aydınat, and Andreas Treske, presents six installations exploring the concept of trace: salt, data, glitch, calcification, ecology, and mediation. Shown alongside “Becoming Matter” by conceptual artist Ecem Dilan Köse. @ecemdilankose On view through 17 May. Weekdays 10:00–14:00 / Weekends 10:00–12:00 Project Coordinators: Andreas Treske, Ufuk Önen Producer: Boran Aksoy Curators: Andreas Treske, Melih Aydınat Sound Design: Dersu Doğan Advisors: Vince Briffa, Jean Molitor Artists: Andreas Treske, Ecem Dilan Köse, Melih Aydınat, Dersu Doğan, İpek Naz Çelen, Yağız Baruğ, Nilsu Karataş, Ada Sertcan, Yiğit Kayı, Ata Hami Körkaya, Ahmed Said Ağaoğlu, Zeynep Sanlı, Orhun Demirhan, Reyyan Öykü Balmumcu, İlayda Nur Tosun, Asya Ceren Gökalp, Sıla Bensu Uysal, Ayşe Kırcı, Lara Doğan, Elif Berra Saydam — Residue / İz, Avrupa Günü kapsamında 6 Mayıs’ta CerModern’de açılıyor. “Veri, görünür kılındığında bir izdir. Tuz izdir. Glitch izdir.” Residue / İz, İletişim ve Tasarım Bölümü öğrencilerinin, Melih Aydınat ve Andreas Treske’nin yapıtlarından oluşan bir grup sergisi olarak iz kavramını altı yerleştirme aracılığıyla ele alıyor: tuz, veri, glitch, kireç, ekoloji ve dolayım. Kavramsal sanatçı Ecem Dilan Köse’nin “Becoming Matter” yapıtıyla birlikte sergileniyor. @ecemdilankose Sergi 17 Mayıs’a kadar görülebilir. Hafta içi 10.00–14.00 / Hafta sonu 10.00–12.00 Proje Koordinatörleri: Andreas Treske, Ufuk Önen Yapımcı: Boran Aksoy Küratörler: Andreas Treske, Melih Aydınat Ses Tasarımı: Dersu Doğan Danışmanlar: Vince Briffa, Jean Molitor Sanatçılar: Andreas Treske, Ecem Dilan Köse, Melih Aydınat, Dersu Doğan, İpek Naz Çelen, Yağız Baruğ, Nilsu Karataş, Ada Sertcan, Yiğit Kayı, Ata Hami Körkaya, Ahmed Said Ağaoğlu, Zeynep Sanlı, Orhun Demirhan, Reyyan Öykü Balmumcu, İlayda Nur Tosun, Asya Ceren Gökalp, Sıla Bensu Uysal, Ayşe Kırcı, Lara Doğan, Elif Berra Saydam #comdrocks #EuropeDay

You are kindly invited to the Senior Project Exhibitions of the Department of Communication and Design, taking place on Friday, May 8th, 2026. The exhibitions will be held at the following locations: “The Weight of All That is Felt” Çağla Bak, Dilara Yurdakul, Duru Yıldız, Ecem Söylemezoğlu, Eda Nur Sevindioğlu, Elanur Ertuğrul Venue: FADA Gallery Time: 13:30 – 20:00 “Everything I Saw Before I Returned to Your Side” Nehir Üstündağ Venue: FFB – 11 Time: 13:30 – 20:00 We look forward to seeing you there.

COMD Talks: Can AI Be Creative? 🎙️ Date: May 5, 12:30-13:30 Venue: FFB-05 *Participants will receive GE250/251 points. From ChatGPT-authored novels to AI-generated soundtracks, the "creative" landscape is shifting beneath our feet. But is the machine actually creating, or are we just falling for a high-tech illusion? Duke University's Aarthi Vadde joins us on Monday, 5 May, 12.30–13.30 at FF-B05. The talk cuts through the industry hype to ask: if a computer lacks intentionality, can it ever truly be an artist?Aarthi Vadde is E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor of English at Duke University. Her books include We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty-First-Century Literature (forthcoming, Columbia UP 2026) and Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism beyond Europe (Columbia UP, 2016; winner of the ACLA Harry Levin Prize). She co-edits The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. F, co-founded the podcast Novel Dialogue, and is the current president of the Society for Novel Studies. #comdrocks

Uçan Süpürge Uluslararası Kadın Filmleri Festivali Üniversiteler Buluşması’nı bölümümüzde ağırladık. 🎬 22 Nisan’da FB309’da gerçekleşen “Sinemada Kadın” söyleşisinde Alin Taşçıyan, Ayşenil Şamlıoğlu ve Damla Sönmez ile Till Death Do Us Part, Henry is a Girl Who Likes to Sleep ve Mükemmel filmleri üzerine konuştuk. Festivali bölümümüze taşıyan Uçan Süpürge ekibine, değerli konuşmacılarımıza ve katılan tüm öğrencilerimize teşekkür ederiz. #comdrocks

Uçan Süpürge Uluslararası Kadın Filmleri Festivali, Üniversiteler Buluşması kapsamında Bilkent İletişim ve Tasarım'a konuk oluyor. 22 Nisan Çarşamba, 13:30, FB309'da "Sinemada Kadın" söyleşisine ev sahipliği yapıyor. 🎬 Konuşmacılar: Alin Taşçıyan, Ayşenil Şamlıoğlu ve Damla Sönmez Söyleşi kapsamında festivalde gösterilen Till Death Do Us Part (Deniz Koloş), Henry is a Girl Who Likes to Sleep (Marthe Peters) ve Mükemmel filmleri üzerine konuşulacak. — EN: Uçan Süpürge International Women's Film Festival comes to Bilkent as part of its Universities Meeting programme. On Çarşamba, 22 April at 13.30, the Department of Communication and Design hosts "Women in Cinema" at FB309: a panel discussion held alongside the festival. 🎬 Speakers: Alin Taşçıyan, Ayşenil Şamlıoğlu, and Damla Sönmez The conversation will centre on three festival selections: Till Death Do Us Part (Deniz Koloş), Henry is a Girl Who Likes to Sleep (Marthe Peters), and Mükemmel. All Bilkent students and faculty are welcome. #comdrocks