Çağdaş Çeçen

About

The invisible is not absent. It is continuously interacting with us.

I am a Vienna-based media artist and curator exploring how hidden physical, biological and social systems can become perceptible through light, sound and interaction. My work is driven by curiosity for the relationships that surround us but often remain beyond ordinary perception. Rather than representing these invisible worlds, I build situations where they can be encountered directly.

Working with custom-built sensing systems, lasers, solar cells, field recordings and living matter, I create installations that invite visitors to explore rather than observe. Sound may travel through light, urban illumination may become audible, or microscopic activity may unfold as an evolving audiovisual landscape. Each work is an experiment in perception, asking how unseen processes shape our understanding of the spaces we inhabit.

Before studying Media Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, I was trained in physics. Since then my practice has developed around the meeting point of scientific principles, embodied experience and artistic intuition, where uncertainty, participation and discovery become part of the work itself.

My work has been presented internationally, including at Ars Electronica Festival and the Biennale Sessions of La Biennale di Venezia. Ghostbox received the Spatial Media Art Student Award at the Media Architecture Biennale (2023), while The Cellular Fidelity was a finalist for the Transmedial Media Architecture Award.