Esen Tütüncü
the artist
University of Barcelona, Spain
Esen K. Tütüncü is an human-computer interaction researcher from Turkey who designs adaptive agents and novel interactions that bridge the physical and virtual worlds.
the artwork
Zamansal Tomurcuklar
Turkish - Temporal Bloom - 2025 - digital photograph processed via a custom slit-scan algorithm.
0 days - 5 hours - 17 minutes
audio commentary
As an HCI researcher, I’m passionate about the malleability of human perception. This piece explores the gap between objective clock time and subjective, perceived time. The slow flourishing of a flower can feel like an eternity in anticipation; the slit-scan algorithm makes this temporal distortion visible. This is a direct metaphor for my research in Virtual Reality, where we can manipulate a user’s sensory data to intentionally dilate or contract their experience of time, demonstrating that our perception is a construct we can actively shape.
Esen Tütüncü
mathematics in Turkish culture
In Turkish culture, the ancient art of carpet weaving is a profound example of algorithmic art. Each hand-woven carpet is a pixel-based system, a grid of colored knots arranged according to a strict set of rules. These rules, forming a pattern or ‘karton’, are essentially a program. The weaver acts as a human processor, executing this program knot by knot. The intricate geometric motifs themselves embody mathematical principles like symmetry, recursion, and tessellation, making every carpet a tangible artifact born from an abstract, executable algorithm.