Conference Papers

2010
Telhan Orkan, Casalegno F., Park J., Kotsopoulos S., and Yu C. "Interaction Design with Building Facades," in the 4th Tangible and Embedded Interaction Conference (TEI'10), Cambridge, MA, 2010.

2009
Telhan, Orkan. “Vendmaster.” In the proceedings of the "Performative Architecture: Architecture and Stages in the Experience City, International Conference, Aalborg, Denmark, 3-4 September 2009.

Ozkal, Arzu and Orkan Telhan. “Price Per Breath.” In the proceedings of the "Performative Architecture: Architecture and Stages in the Experience City, International Conference, Aalborg, Denmark, 3-4 September 2009.

Telhan, Orkan. “Sensor Narratives.” To appear in the LSE Working Papers Series of the Second Writing Cities Workshop, The Cities Programme at the London School of Economics, 1-3 June 2009.

Telhan, Orkan. “Towards the Designer's Agency: Software Mannerisms for Computational Design.” In the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Critical Digital: Who Cares(?), Harvard University Graduate School of Design, April 17-19, 2009.

2008
Telhan, Orkan. “Towards a Material Agency: New Materials and New Behaviors for Urban Artifacts.” In the proceedings of the First International Conference on Critical Digital: What Matter(s), Harvard University Graduate School of Design, April 18-19, 2008.

2006
Telhan Orkan, Judith Donath. “Social Maps of Time and Space.” InfoVis 2006 Art Show Conference Compendium. 178-179.

Telhan Orkan. 2006. An Initiation Rite for Intelligent Machinery. In Computational Aesthetics: Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Beauty and Happiness: Papers from the AAAI Workshop: Papers from the 2006 AAAI Workshop, ed. Hugo Liu and Rada Mihalcea, 91-94. Technical Report WS-06-04. American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Menlo Park, California.

2005
Shapiro, Stuart C., Josephine Anstey, David E. Pape, Trupti Devdas Nayak, Michael Kandefer, & Orkan Telhan, “MGLAIR Agents in Virtual and other Graphical Environments”, Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05), AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA, 2005, 1704-1705.

Shapiro, Stuart C., Josephine Anstey, David E. Pape, Trupti Devdas Nayak, Michael Kandefer, & Orkan Telhan, “The Trial The Trail, Act 3: A Virtual Reality Drama Using Intelligent Agents,” In R. Michael Young & John Laird, Eds., Proceedings of the First Annual Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference (AIIDE-05), AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA, 2005, 157-158.

Shapiro, Stuart C., Josephine Anstey, David E. Pape, Trupti Devdas Nayak, Michael Kandefer, Orkan Telhan, "MGLAIR Agents in a Virtual Reality Drama", Technical Report 2005-08,” Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, March 30, 2005.

Josephine Anstey, Dave Pape, Stuart C. Shapiro, Orkan Telhan and Trupti Devdas Nayak, "Psycho-Drama in VR," Proceedings of The Fourth Conference on Computation Semiotics (COSIGN 2004), University of Split, Croatia, 2004, 5-13.


Reviews

"Pasts and Presents" featured in Art+Science Now, Stephen Wilson, Thames and Hudson, 2010.

"Echologue" featured in "Smart Surfaces – and their Application in Architecture and Design" Klooster, Thorsten (Ed.), " Birkhäuser, 2009.


Journal Articles (Peer-reviewed, in English)

Telhan, Orkan. "Materials with Computational Experience and Style."Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Springer-Verlag, 2010.


Editorial

Thresholds, Editor, Issue #38, "Future," MIT School of Architecture and Planning Scholarly Journal, Cambridge, MA. Forthcoming September 2010.


Journal Articles (in Turkish)

Telhan Orkan, "Sehir Arabalari ". Tasarim Merkezi Dergisi (Nisan 2007). 92-97.
(City Cars. April 2007). PDF

Telhan Orkan, "Second Life". Tasarim Merkezi Dergisi (Mart 2007). 94-97.
(Second Life. March 2007). PDF

Telhan Orkan, "Yapi ve Yapinin Iletisimsel Islevi icin Yeni Teknolojiler". Tasarim Merkezi Dergisi (Ocak 2007). 132-133.
(New Technologies for Buildings and their Communicative Actions. January 2007). PDF

Telhan Orkan, "MIT Medya Laboratuvari: Yeni Arastima Temalari". Tasarim Merkezi Dergisi (Aralik 2006). 114-118.
(New Research Themes from MIT Media Lab. December 2006). PDF

Telhan Orkan, Arzu Ozkal. "Taktik Medya: Steve Kurtz". Arradamento Mimarlik. 100 + 92 (Haziran 2006). 88-97.
(Tactical Media and Steve Kurtz - Interview, July 2006). PDF


Theses

Vendmaster: A Language Game between Machines and People (2008)
MFA thesis submitted to the Department of Media Study at State University of New York at Buffalo.

Social Sensing and Its Display (2007)
SM thesis submitted to the Program in Media Arts and Sciences, School of Architecture and Planning, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Virtual Realities and Real Virtualities (2002)
MFA thesis submitted to the Department of Graphic Design and the Institute of Fine Arts of Bilkent University, Ankara.