Ekin Erkan is a Turkish philosopher and art historian/art critic. Erkan's research primarily concerns Kant & Hegel's theoretical philosophy, philosophy of perception, and aesthetics/the philosophy of art. Erkan's area of concentration in art history is currently on revisionist histories of 20th century Abstract Expressionism and how the story of the State Department's co-optation of Abstract Expressionism relates to the utopian (viz. “California Ideology") self-conception of nascent internet art (see: NetTime listservs of the late 1990s and early aughts) and its eventual co-optation by commodity capital (e.g., NFTs, the uniform flat aesthetic…
Ekin Erkan is a Turkish philosopher and art historian/art critic. Erkan's research primarily concerns Kant & Hegel's theoretical philosophy, philosophy of perception, and aesthetics/the philosophy of art. Erkan's area of concentration in art history is currently on revisionist histories of 20th century Abstract Expressionism and how the story of the State Department's co-optation of Abstract Expressionism relates to the utopian (viz. “California Ideology") self-conception of nascent internet art (see: NetTime listservs of the late 1990s and early aughts) and its eventual co-optation by commodity capital (e.g., NFTs, the uniform flat aesthetics of ”corporate Memphis", and the machinations of the “big five” digital oligopolies).
Erkan also writes as an art critic and is an independent and foreign film enthusiast, who, above all, cherishes the cinema of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jean Eustache, and Chris Marker.
