Genco Gülan is a contemporary artist, curator and a theoretician. He got his MA degree from Media Studies at New School New York. His thesis; De-constructing the Digital Revolution (2001) published as a print on demand book. His publications are in the Libraries of Metropolitan Museum, Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and Salt Galata. Gulan gave conferences at Yale, School of Visual Arts New York, Cologne University among many others. He founded the Istanbul Museum as an art project in 1997 and started the Web Biennial in 2003. He was in the board of Balkan Biennial of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki (2004) and in the International programming committee of Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts in Singapore (2008). Gulan recently got awards from Ege University (2015) and Milliyet Sanat (2019). He lives and works in Istanbul and Izmir.