Teoman Madra

Teoman Madra was a Turkish artist whose work evolved around generative experimentation and the creative use of technology. Beginning with long-exposure light photography in the 1960s, he explored how movement, repetition, and chance could produce abstract visual forms. His early exhibitions featured photo projections accompanied by contemporary and experimental music, reflecting connections to the broader international avant-garde art scene. The musical world surrounding his work included figures such as John Cage, Pierre Boulez, La Monte Young, Sun Ra, Dave Brubeck, Gerry Mulligan, as well as Turkish and internationally recognized electroacoustic and contemporary composers like Bülent Arel, İlhan Mimaroğlu, and İlhan Usmanbaş.
 
 From the mid-1960s onward, Madra worked across video, sound, analog projection, and computer-based media. His digital production began with Amiga-based works in the 1980s, followed by PC-generated video pieces after the late 1990s. Between 1965 and 2010, he created multimedia performances, interactive installations, and sound-visual compositions. His sustained experiments with light, sound, performance, and computation played a formative role in the development of media-based art practices in Turkey.