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Founded in 2000 by Güven Incirlioglu (Izmir, Turkey) and Hakan Topal (New York) as a transatlantic collaboration, xurban_collective’s projects focus on contemporary social, political and territorial issues such as military confinement and state violence, urban segregation and new global immigration patterns. The collective’s work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, the Istanbul Biennial, PS1/MoMA (New York), Apexart (New York), Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (Vienna), Kunst-Werke (Berlin), ZKM Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe, Germany), Pratt Institute Manhattan Gallery (New York), and National Contemporary Art Museum (Athens), among others. Guven Incirlioglu studied architecture, photography, and holds a Ph.D. in art theory. Since the 1980s, he has worked mostly with photography, photo-mechanical materials, and new media, exhibiting in group and solo exhibitions in New York, Ankara, Istanbul, Sarajevo, Sofia, and other locations. Since 1990, he has been a lecturer in art and design in various schools in Turkey, including Bilkent University, Ankara, and Bilgi University and Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul. He currently lectures at Izmir University of Economics’ Faculty of Art and Design. Hakan Topal is an artist and researcher based in New York. He teaches graduate courses at the School of Visual Arts’ Fine Arts Department and CUNY’s Department of Media Culture. Trained as an engineer, he continued his education in Gender & Women’s Studies and sociology (hold both M.A. and M.S.) and received his Ph.D. in Sociology of Art and Urban Sociology at the New School for Social Research, New York. Recently, he was the guest editor of ArteEast Quarterly and finished a documentary film, commissioned by the Neue Galerie (New York), on the late-eighteenth-century Austro-Bavarian sculptor Franz Xavier Messerschmidt. He is currently working on a book project about collateral damage in asymettrical global warfares by particualrly focusing on the war in Kurdistan.