Simber Atay

Dr. Simber Atay was born in Gaziantep, Turkey, and studied Cinema and Television at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Ege University. Her academic and research trajectory has long engaged with film, photography, and visual culture. Her early research includes Kemal Sunal’s Comedy (1980), followed by The Early Period of Photography and Ottoman Photographers (1983), and her doctoral dissertation Approach Forms in Turkish Film Criticism (1990), which shaped her later critical approach to cinema and media.

 

She taught and conducted research at several academic institutions, including Dokuz Eylül University, across the Faculty of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, Faculty of Education, and Institute of Educational Sciences, as well as at Anadolu University’s Faculty of Communication Sciences. Throughout her academic career, she has explored photography theory, postmodern art, cyberculture, and the philosophy of distance education, later expanding her research towards artificial intelligence and creative performance.

 

She currently works as an independent researcher, continuing to examine the evolving relationships between visual culture, technology, and contemporary artistic practices.