Pinar Yoldas biography

Pinar Yoldas is a is a Turkish-American architect, artist and professor at University of California San Diego.[1] She is known for art and architecture that focus on the anthropocene, futurism, and feminist technoscience. She received a degree in Architecture at Middle East Technical University (2002). She moved to Istanbul in 2002 to receive an MA in Visual Communication Design at Istanbul Bilgi University (2004) and an MS in Internet Technologies at Istanbul Technical University (2006). In this period she worked as a children's book illustrator, painting tutor, programmer and graphic designer to support her education. In 2006 she moved to Los Angeles to work with Casey Reas. In 2008 she graduated from UCLA Design|Media Aarts with an MFA in New Media Art. In 2016, she earned her Ph.D in Media Arts and Sciences from Duke University with her thesis titled Speculative Biologies: New Directions in Art in the Age of the Anthropocene.