GiziliKo
Turkey
Where do you locate yourself in relation to the systems you work with?
I locate myself not outside the system, nor in full authorship over it, but as a situated author — shaping intent, constraints, and meaning while allowing the system’s operations to intervene. My role is neither passive nor dominant; it is relational, formed through negotiation with the tool and the conditions it produces.
Where are you heading, and what is pulling you there?
I’m heading toward practices that slow down AI-driven production and reminded me of presence, friction, and choice. What pulls me there is a growing discomfort with seamlessness — with images that appear resolved too quickly, without leaving space for hesitation or interpretation. I’m increasingly drawn to work that treats AI not as a shortcut, but as a site of tension: where intention meets probability, and where authorship becomes something negotiated rather than assumed.This direction is shaped by a desire to retain emotional and bodily resonance within computational processes. I’m pulled toward spaces where images can hold uncertainty, where decisions remain visible, and where the human gesture is not erased but redistributed across the system. Rather than seeking refinement or optimization, I’m moving toward practices that allow ambiguity, resistance, and subtle instability to remain part of the work.
How would you describe the space your practice is currently unfolding in?
My practice is currently unfolding in a hybrid space shaped by both structure and uncertainty. It exists across interfaces, prompts, archives, and post-production decisions, but it is equally informed by memory, intuition, and embodied experience. This space is neither neutral nor stable; it is continuously reshaped by the tools I work with and the choices I make in response to them.
Rather than treating this space as a studio in the traditional sense, I experience it as a negotiated field — one where control is partial and outcomes are provisional. Images emerge through a layered process of instruction, interpretation, and intervention. The space holds traces of intention alongside residues of the system’s logic, allowing moments of tension, ambiguity, and slowness to remain visible.
In this space, my practice does not aim to resolve complexity, but to inhabit it — using AI as a material condition rather than a transparent medium.
Artist Statement
I don’t use AI to illustrate ideas—I use it to hold things I can’t quite name.
There’s often a tension in my work between softness and control, beauty and discomfort. I’m not trying to resolve that tension; I just stay inside it.
Working with AI lets me build images that feel still on the surface, but unsettled underneath. It gives me distance and closeness at the same time—like watching something delicate fall apart in slow motion.
I’m interested in how visual calm can carry emotional noise. How the familiar can feel off. How something light can feel heavy.
My work isn’t about what AI can do. It’s about what it can hold without explaining.





