The Pinkie Platform
A network based electronics prototyping platform for artists and designers

The Pinkie Platform (poster)

Burak Arikan recently completed his master's degree in the Physical Language Workshop at the MIT Media Laboratory. While at MIT, he pursued research exploring systems that address the transition from connectivity to collectivity in the context of creative expression. His current work is focused on building platforms for artists and designers that enable collectivity based on composing distributed electronic objects over the Internet. Also as an artistic exploration, Arikan builds systems that evolve with the interaction of people and machines, and shows the instances of these systems through diverse media including prints, animation, software, and physical structures.

Prior to attending MIT, he worked as an information architect and visual designer in the United States and Turkey. He received a Master of Arts degree in Visual Communication Design from Istanbul Bilgi University in 2004, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Yildiz Technical University in 2001.