50. ELIF-CIGDEM ARTAN
Information acquired: 2025
ELIF-CIGDEM ARTAN is an academic who published a paper in 2021 entitled The future of the present. ELIF-CIGDEM ARTAN published this work as part of a team: Artan, Elif Cigdem. Here is a description of this work: Thi,, study examines the contribution of activist videos from the Occupy Wall Street and the Occupy Gezi Park movements to non-authoritarian and non-linear history-writing. To this end, it focuses on three major domains with particular points of interest in each: a) urbanâ€"the temporary emergence of commoning practices in and footage from early twenty-first century social movements, b) imageâ€"the heterogeneous characteristics of producing a visual counter-narrative and activist videos practices as learning tools, and c) archiveâ€"activist archiving practices versus hegemonic state archives and the reconfiguration of archival practices. Two autonomous archives were examined in depth as case studies: Interference Archive in New York, and bak. Ma in Istanbul. On the basis of grounded theory, an ethnographical methodology was used to collect data, including archive visits, participatory observation,.