Taking its name from the Latin phrase meaning blank slate, Tabula Rasa is an allegorical piece blurring the boundaries between our primal past and a potential digitally-augmented future. This work underscores the tension between our relentless drive towards technological advancement and the preservation of our fundamental human essence.

Born in Turkey in 1982, Alkan Avcıoğlu is a polymath and an outsider AI artist who believes in the transformative power of prolific creation. He is a relentless multifaceted experimenter.

Augmented humanity can be viewed as a paradoxical state of going forward and backwards at the same time; technology promising seemingly infinite possibilities while simultaneously risking the dilution of our innate, human experience.