Iam Ege, doing my Master's in Information Systems with a focus on Data Science at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, working toward digital humanities and sociological data research. W. E. B. Du Bois is one of my heroes. I also make ambient and electronic music, write, and build worlds. I like to read and tell stories about people and their cities through music, literature, and data.
Lately I have been nerding out on audio harvesting, Disco Elysium, and the Schedelsche Weltchronik as you may have guessed from the design of this site.
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Moving to Nürnberg, Germany, after living in İstanbul, Türkiye, for 24 years. This is my first time moving to a new country, and I am excited to explore the city, its history and its culture. I am also looking forward to opportunities to collaborate with local artists and researchers here and around the world.
I released a single called Yabancı in August 2026, using a new technique I call audio harvesting. It is about becoming a stranger at home and being a stranger somewhere new, at the same time. A line from Erden Kıral's 1983 film Hakkari'de Bir Mevsim runs through the track as a recurring motif, alongside samples from several other Turkish and American films, cut together into a collage of voices.
Halfway through The Creative Act by Rick Rubin, which is less a method than a temperament.
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Watching a lot of films, in cinemas when I can. I keep a record on Letterboxd.
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About me
I was an indie developer as an IT graduate and built a few web and mobile applications, until I realised that I wanted to understand the world, people and their problems better. Rather than chasing the most efficient solution to a problem, I wanted to understand the problem itself and maybe even be the one who mongers it.
What holds my attention is the moment a social fact becomes a measurement: what survives that translation and what quietly does not. Du Bois's Paris charts are the standing example; hand-drawn, insistent, made to argue rather than merely describe.
İstanbul has been home to me for 24 years and as it has been to many for centuries, I too have been shaped by its socio-economic and cultural fabric.
I come from a working-class family. I have been lucky enough to have access to proper education and to be able to pursue my self-actualization rather than my material needs. While being thankful for that, I have been raised with a strong sense of labour, gender equality and a strong reaction to social injustice and inequality since my early childhood.
As a home, İstanbul felt like a place to fix rather than to settle in since the city has been shaped by the same social injustices and inequalities that I have been raised to fight against, and I decided to step back from my physical presence in the class struggle here, to deepen my understanding and gain new perspectives elsewhere.
The plan was never to detach myself from the political and social struggles of my home, but I am going to try to understand them better from a distance.
Iam not a fan of buzzwords or labels, but if I have to pick some: queer, Marxist and atheist. I oppose generative systems that are trained on artists' work and sold back to the public without paying them. I also oppose the alliance between states and companies, which turns data infrastructure into new fronts of war and control, and threatens the privacy, volition and autonomy of society.
Pah! What about some fun things, young man?
As a hobby, I am interested in worldbuilding and I have been creating a fictional world with social, political and cultural aspects for some time now. Currently I am writing the world bible, which is a collection of folktales, histories and spatial data of the world. Some of the great inspirations for this project are Disco Elysium, Le Combat Ordinaire and our own DnD campaigns which we have been playing for years with a couple of friends.
I am not sure if I will ever publish it or what medium I will use to concretise it, but I am enjoying the process of creating it and I am learning a lot about storytelling, worldbuilding and the human condition in the process.
Plates from the public domainFol. i