Orkan Telhan (born 1976 in Oberhausen,

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) is the Chief Information and Data Officer at Ecovative and the board president o
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Telhan was Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Emerging Design Practices in the School of Design at The

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

. Telhan holds a PhD in Design and Computation from MIT's Department of Architecture. He was part of the Sociable Media Group at the

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and a researcher at the MIT Design Laboratory. He studied Media Arts at the

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and theories of media and representation, visual studies and Graphic Design at

Bilkent University Bilkent University ( tr, Bilkent Üniversitesi) is a private university located in Ankara, Turkey. It was founded by Prof. İhsan Doğramacı in 1984, with the aim of creating a center of excellence in higher education and research. It is constan ...

. His individual and collaborative work has been exhibited internationally in venues including the

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(2013, 2023), Istanbul Design Biennial (2012 2016), Milano Design Week, Vienna Design Week,

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2015 Special Projects, Ars Electronica, ISEA, LABoral, ArchiLab,

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, The Architectural League of New York,

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, the New Museum of Contemporary Art New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Design Museum, London. In 2016, Telhan's design monograph "Designature: The Nature of Signatures in Art and Design" was published from Revolver Publishing, Berlin. Telhan was a co-founder of Biorealize Inc., a biotech company specialized in making next generation tools to make it easier to design with biology.

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20121111001330/http://www.orkantelhan.info/ Interdisciplinary artists University of Pennsylvania faculty Living people 1976 births {{Germany-artist-stub