Born in 1970, Istanbul; lives and works in Istanbul. Senova is a curator and designer. She studied Literature and Graphic Design (MFA in Graphic Design and Ph.D. in Art, Design and Architecture at Bilkent University) and attended the 7th Curatorial Training Programme of Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam. She has been writing on art, technology and media, initiating and developing national and international projects and curating exhibitions since 1995. She is the editor of art-ist 6, Kontrol Online Magazine and one of the founding members of NOMAD, as well as the organizer of ctrl_alt_del and Upgrade!Istanbul. Currently, she is lecturing at the Faculty of Communication, Kadir Has University.

Assistant Curator
Nazli Gürlek

Born in 1981, Istanbul; lives and works in Istanbul. Gürlek is a curator and writer. After a BA in Painting and Art history from the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence in 2006, she received her MFA in 2008 in Curating at Goldsmiths College. She is the co-founder of IM projects, an international and independent curatorial collective. She collaborated with the curatorial departments of Tate Modern for the Global Cities exhibition in 2007, and Galleria d’Arte Moderna (today called MAMbo) of Bologna in 2006. Among the projects she has curated are A Fine Red Line – Live (176 Project Space, London), Rhymes of an Hour (Loop Video Art Festival, Barcelona) and Between Mirrors and Windows (London). She is the guest co-editor of the contemporary art magazine Circa. She was also co-editor of A Fine Red Line : a curatorial miscellany (IM press, London 2008), and IM magazine (London 2007).