UCSD Communication

Name:	Ayhan Aytes www.ayhanaytes.net
Education:	PH.D. University of California San Diego, California Communication and Cognitive Science, expected December 2011 MDes. Institute of Design, Illinois Master of Design in Human-Centered Communication Design, July 2000 B.S. METU, Ankara, Turkey Mechanical Engineering, July 1995
Research Experience:	2008-Current Project Coordinator/Designer, agoraXchange.net, MMOG Participated in research, grant application, coordination and design activities for the second phase of agoraXchange.net, an online collaboration for imagining and building alternative forms of political participation in a global community facilitated by a massively multiplayer online game platform. 2007-2009 Research Affiliate, ICHASS, in collaboration with SCGMA Participated in research and grant application activities for implementations of digital humanities tools and methods for a multi-campus research group focusing on medieval scholarship. 2006-2007 Research Assistant, Transliteracies, University of California Multi-campus Research Group Participated in research and workshop activities led by Professor Alan Liu with History of Reading, New Reading Interfaces and Social Computing research groups. 1999-2002 Project Assistant, Learning Sciences, Northwestern University Participated in educational research activities for NSF funded projects on science learning software for Chicago Public Schools. Conducted video ethnography studies for computer assisted learning situations.
Research Interests:	Cultural history of Artificial Intelligence in relation to subjectivity, body, autonomy, temporality, religion, and race. Media Archeology as a historical method for intertextual reading of early-modern technical media. Socio-technical aspects of contemporary distributed cognitive labor platforms.
Publications:	“Return of The Crowds: Mechanical Turk and Neoliberal States of Exception" in Unthinking Digital Labor. Ed. Trebor Scholz, Routledge NY 2012 (forthcoming) "Cognitive Labor, Crowdsourcing, and Cultural History of the Mechanization of the Mind" Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Volume 17, (2011) Issue: 1
Awards/Grants/ Fellowships	Wikimedia Foundation Virtual Community Fellowship, 2011 Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems Summer Institute Scholarship, 2011 European Summer University Scholarship, 2010 Dean of Social Sciences Travel Fund Award, 2010 UCSD Friends of the International Center Scholarship, 2009-2010 IICAS Graduate Travel Grant, 2009-2010 CEU SUN Summer University Scholarship, 2009 NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Grant with SCGMA, in collaboration with ICHASS, 2008-2009 Christensen Fund Grant, 2007-2008 (in collaboration with Ramesh Srinivasan, UCLA) UC Start-up Grant for agoraXchange.net, 2007-2008 (in collaboration with Jacquie Stevens, UCSB) University of Bauhaus-Weimar Travel Grant, January 2007 UC Transliteracies Project, Research Fellow, 2006-2007 UCDARNET Travel Grant, August 2006 UCHRI Scholarship for SECT Seminar Participation, August 2006 CalIT2 Graduate Fellowship, 2004-2005
Teaching:	2010 Fall - University of California San Diego, Instructor, Social Media and Crowdsourcing: The Cultural Logic of Web 2.0, Senior Seminar 2009 Summer - University of California San Diego , Instructor, Introduction to Communication 2008 Fall - University of California San Diego , Freshman Seminar co-taught with Professor Stefan Tanaka, History of Automata 2008 - Current - University of California San Diego , Teaching Assistant for undergraduate Communication courses including: Introduction to Communication Visual Culture Game Studies History of Media Media Production Children and Media
	2002-2004 - Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey Instructor, Visual Communication Design Taught undergraduate level Digital Culture and graduate level Interface Design classes, advised Master’s theses and projects.
Presentations:	July 2010, Cognitive Labor and Crowdsourcing, European Summer School “Culture and Technology”, Leipizg University, Germany February 2010, Crowdsourcing, Literature.Culture.Media Center, UCSB (invited speaker) November 2009, Cognitive Labor, Crowdsourcing, and Cultural History of human/machine Assemblages , The Internet as Playground and Factory, The New School, NY November 2009, Crowdsourcing, National Communication Association pre-conference Seminar, Chicago April 2009, Crowdsourcing, The State of Things: Towards a Political Economy of Artifice and Artifacts, University of Leicester, UK May 2008, Mappamundi, TechnoTravels: HASTAC in Motion, UCLA January 2007, ID Cover, Public Istanbul, Bauhaus University-Weimar, Germany May 2006, ID Cover, Global States Conference, UC Irvine, August 2004, Designing The New Memory Space for Cultural Heritage, SIGGRAPH 2004, Los Angeles September 2003, Remembrance of Media Past, ICHIM ’03 Conference Louvre Museum, L’Ecole du Louvre, Paris, France February 2003, Remembrance of Media Past, Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven (invited speaker)
Media Production:	I work in various media including photography, animation, video and network based collaborative performances. Some of these digital works are integral elements of my research and teaching as they help me articulate non-linear, collaborative and time-based notions.
Exhibits/Online Works:	Co-organizer and Curator with J.R. Osborn, Communication in the Wild Showcase, University of California, Humanities Research Institute, , August 21, 2006 ID Cover/ Reading the City of Signs: Istanbul:revealed or mystified?, The Architecture Centre, Bristol, UK; Istanbul Bilgi University; University of Nottingham, UK; London College of Communication, Aksanat Art Gallery, Istanbul, 2003 Remembrance of Media Past, Istanbul Museum of The History of Science and Technology in Islam (permanent collection) Voices of the Holocaust, Project Website Design, 1999