UFO
UFO is not a university in a traditional sense—or in any sense. It is a model, continuously revising what a university is or could be. Its goal is to act as a transformative vehicle, capable of moving through impossible spaces and concepts. It operates with complexity, computation, dynamics, ontology, and intelligence, which form the bedrock of the transformative formations that emerge through its behavior and characteristics.
We are living in a time when existing structures and organizations are being stripped down. Their true face is exposed: a lack of care for humanity at their core, built entirely on power and struggle. Our task begins with recognizing this, and understanding ourselves as a force capable of transforming struggle into a different kind of power.
We have, historically, given our power away to a small few. But that no longer makes sense—these figures no longer carry any real organizational value. What is emerging is the possibility for any character to rise into such positions. Not the same positions, but new configurations—new forms. This opens up a global scale of resistance, because the mediatory connections that once held power in place are dissolving through the mutation of existing structures. Not their total destruction, but a selective removal and addition—a mutation that turns them into something far more horrible.
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Posthuman Studies Lab
Buket Yenidogan
Buket Yenidogan, b.1995 is a Turkish research-based multimedia artist based in London. She has exhibited and performed internationally at The Crypt Gallery, Iklectik London and Sonar+d Istanbul and Dear2050: Oceans on the rise, Zurich as well as joining group shows in various venues in London. Her writing practice follows her research on posthumanism, with a published paper on ethico-onto-epistemological considerations of AI Art at the “AI Music Conference 2021” of Austria and an extended dissertation on posthuman art-making, focusing on the transformation of art-making following an elaborative retrospect from the eras of Humanism to Posthumanism. Following her Bachelors of Science degree in Istanbul Technical University, she currently is a Master of Arts candidate at the Royal College of Art in Information Experience Design programme.
Experience as Post-Dualistic World-ing
Buket is a research-based artist and a writer who crafts posthuman experiences. Her take on experiential art is a way to create transformation on a societal and individual level towards a posthuman mode of living which has left humanism's exceptionalism, dichotomies and the cuts between self and other as well as nature and culture behind. Her practice expands in various media such as interactive installations, creative workshops, moving image, improvised performances and speculative guided meditations, as well as her writings of academic papers on philosophical considerations of posthuman art-making and AI Art.