The Index is a research-based media installation examining how music and cinematic sound design shape the editorial logic of television news in Turkey after the 1980s. The project draws on archival analysis and literature research to reconsider broadcast news not only as information, but as a constructed cinematic form.
Working with historical news recordings, production fragments, and found media, the installation treats editing as an architectural and navigational system. Images and sounds are logged, layered, and reassembled through montage, compositing, and procedural processing to form a spatial environment rather than a linear sequence.
Influenced by film theory and perceptual studies, the work approaches media archives phenomenologically—focusing on memory, repetition, illusion, and the blurred boundary between documentation and interpretation. Original footage and archival traces coexist as signals within a controlled field of sound and projection.
The installation combines video, projection systems, optical and coding techniques, and post-production tools typically associated with cinema—cutting, layering, and finishing—reconfigured at room scale. Editing and compositing become spatial operations.
The Index continues as an independent, practice-led investigation between Berlin and Istanbul, conceived for exhibition contexts and public presentation.
Format: multimedia installation / projection environment
Methods: archival research, montage, compositing, sound design, spatial media systems
Role: concept, direction, edit, post/VFX integration
Status: ongoing research and exhibition series
Methods: archival research, montage, compositing, sound design, spatial media systems
Role: concept, direction, edit, post/VFX integration
Status: ongoing research and exhibition series