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Zafer Topaloglu is a video artist and documentary filmmaker based in İstanbul, Turkey. He holds a B.A in Film-Tv from Istanbul Bilgi University, and an MDes in Media Design from the Willem de Kooning Academie, Piet Zwart Institute. Over the last four years his video works have been screened at numerous international festivals and galleries such as European Media Arts Festival, Videobrasil Contemporary Art Festival, Screen Festival Barcelona, Instants Video Arts Festival, Videoformes, Darklight Film Festival, Timishort Film Festival, DokumentART, Tent Gallery among others.
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Zafer Topaloglu, former video artist and documentary filmmaker based in Rotterdam and İstanbul, is now part of the artist duo Backtopoints. He holds a B.A in Film-Tv from Istanbul Bilgi University, and an MDes in Media Design from the Willem de Kooning Academie, Piet Zwart Institute.  
  
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Backtopoints is an artist duo that Zafer founded with his bro Tuna Topaloğlu. Before forming the Duo, Zafer was a practicing video artist who is active at the international video/film arts scene, and exhibited at many international festivals such as European Media Art Festival, Darklight Film Festival, Videobrasil, Videomedeja, Videoformes, India Art Fair, Room Art Fair, Les Instant Video Art Festival, Art Bengaluru Fair among others while Tuna was working on his own video game.
  
His video works register and question the situations, events, and ways of perceptions through which manifold power agents impose their own agendas and ways of understanding and perception on the Other emotionally or physically. Approaching those occasions with aesthetic traits culled from Experimental Documentary and Video Essay, he exposes both the vulnerability of the Other in front of the Power agents and various aspects of their operations on the Other by working with mostly single screen video works and at some occasions multiple screen video installations.
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Their passion for being and working together brought them together and they started the duo. They work on a practice that transports the audience to a space where they could meet an understanding of beauty beyond the visible world by using particle, fluid, smoke and rigid body simulations and combining these with 3d modeling operations in their works.
  
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Aside from many NFT platforms, such as Knownorigin, Foundation, Binance, Makersplace, OpenSea and Middlemist among athers, Backtopoints has recently exhibited at the Muze Gazhane and EmaarArtHub İstanbul, and has recently completed a commisioned NFT work for the international marketing agency YKONE.
  
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Revision as of 21:54, 22 September 2022

Zafer Topaloglu, former video artist and documentary filmmaker based in Rotterdam and İstanbul, is now part of the artist duo Backtopoints. He holds a B.A in Film-Tv from Istanbul Bilgi University, and an MDes in Media Design from the Willem de Kooning Academie, Piet Zwart Institute.

Backtopoints is an artist duo that Zafer founded with his bro Tuna Topaloğlu. Before forming the Duo, Zafer was a practicing video artist who is active at the international video/film arts scene, and exhibited at many international festivals such as European Media Art Festival, Darklight Film Festival, Videobrasil, Videomedeja, Videoformes, India Art Fair, Room Art Fair, Les Instant Video Art Festival, Art Bengaluru Fair among others while Tuna was working on his own video game.

Their passion for being and working together brought them together and they started the duo. They work on a practice that transports the audience to a space where they could meet an understanding of beauty beyond the visible world by using particle, fluid, smoke and rigid body simulations and combining these with 3d modeling operations in their works.

Aside from many NFT platforms, such as Knownorigin, Foundation, Binance, Makersplace, OpenSea and Middlemist among athers, Backtopoints has recently exhibited at the Muze Gazhane and EmaarArtHub İstanbul, and has recently completed a commisioned NFT work for the international marketing agency YKONE.


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