Vjunk

User Bio

Burcu Gündüz K studied Industrial Design and met video art while attending to Ulus Bakers lectures at METU, Ankara. She got her MFA in graphic design in 2003, writing a thesis on the electronic music culture "Rave As Carnival". 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 five year time. And Burcu attended to international festivals Freemote, Nodefest, LPM, Scope Sessions (by Visual Berlin) as a speaker and performer.

She performed with her duo DJ Bessumi (myspace.com/bessumi) and her VJ duo Vidbeat (vimeo.com/vidbeat). They joined various audiovisual events and universitys` activities in Istanbul, Ankara and Cankiri while they shared their knowledge in the workshops.

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

LINKS:
Graphics & Paintings: flickr.com/photos/burcugunduz
vjfestist.blogspot.com
soundcloud.com/bessumi

TURKCE:
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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