Irem Bugdayci

Works
  • Irem Bugdayci, Inference, 2025
    Irem Bugdayci
    Inference, 2025
    Inference (2025) is an interactive artwork that uses custom AI software and motion sensing to construct a shared field of vision between artificial and biological intelligence. Sixteen layers of natural imagery are continuously processed and reinterpreted by the system, forming a dynamic perceptual model that viewers reshape through gesture in real time. Vision takes shape through active negotiation between sensing, prediction, and response. The work examines how both humans and machines construct reality from partial and uncertain data. Gestural interaction intervenes directly in the system’s inferential process, exposing perception as a feedback loop shaped by expectation, memory, and error. What appears on screen remains provisional, unfolding as an evolving hypothesis about the world. By foregrounding this shared incompleteness, Inference questions the boundary increasingly drawn between human and machine vision. As AI mediates how we see, navigate, and understand our environment, the work suggests that perception has long operated algorithmically through pattern recognition, prediction, and filling in the gaps. Shared seeing with machines makes these processes visible, reframing it as a collaborative act and reconsidering what it means to know and be known in an algorithmically mediated world.
  • Irem Bugdayci, Priors, 2025
    Irem Bugdayci
    Priors, 2025
    16-minute single-channel 4K video Latent diffusion model, custom tracking algorithms, and computer vision systems
    4K - 2160 x 3840 pixels (vertical)
  • Irem Bugdayci, FREQUENCIES | Frontiers, 2024
    Irem Bugdayci
    FREQUENCIES | Frontiers, 2024
    by Irem Bugdayci and Lannka.

    Frontiers is a series of 25 generative video artworks that explore how technology mediates and modulates our encounters with the natural world.

    Using a custom AI workflow trained on real-world movement data, the series presents fluid-like landscapes that behave like accelerated living systems, constantly shifting and evolving. These environments move beyond static depictions, drawing viewers into a layered experience of continuous motion and transformation. Frontiers prompts reflection on how technologies shape our perception of the environment, highlighting the interplay between human experience and machine-driven interpretations of reality.