Burcu Gündüz K studied Industrial Design and met video art while attending to Ulus Bakers lectures at METU. She got her MFA in graphic design in 2003, writing a thesis on the electronic music culture. Started Vjing in 2005, she has been organizing an independent VJ festival (VJFEST) in Istanbul since 2008. VJFEST vjfestist.org hosted more than a hundred artists from twenty different countries in four year time. And Burcu attended to international festivals Freemote, Nodefest, and LPM as speaker and performer. Burcu’s latest action was in September 2011. She visited Visual Berlin and spoke about VJFEST and Istanbul.

She performs with her duo DJ Bessumi (myspace.com/bessumi) and her VJ duo Vidbeat (myspace.com/vidbeat). They join university's activities and various audiovisual events while they care about sharing their knowledge in the workshops.

Graphics & Paintings: flickr.com/photos/burcugunduz

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BGK, ODTÜ’de Endüstriyel Tasarım okurken videoyla ilgilenmeye Ulus Baker’in derslerinde başladı. 2003’te Bilkent Üniversitesi’nde bitirdiği “Karnaval olarak Rave” adlı tezinde elektronik müzik partilerinde M.D.M.A (ecstasy)’in dansla birlikte insanları birleştirici ve özgürleştirici etkilerinden bahsetti. 2005 yılbaşında VJ’lik yapmaya başladı. 2008’den bu yana uluslararası video-müzik performans festivali VJ FEST İSTANBUL’u düzenliyor ve VJ’lik yapmaya devam ediyor.
vjfestist.org
vimeo.com/vjunk

INTERVIEW english & türkçe
dimancherougeinterviews.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/vjunk-aka-burcu-gunduz-visual-carnival-of-rave-englishturkish/