Sinem Taş

Sinem Taş, is recently a PhD researcher at Multi Media Art, at the Fine Arts Faculty of Lisbon University. After finishing her bachelor degree in International Relations at Uludağ University in Bursa in 2013, Taş worked as photojournalist at a local journal covering news and protests in Izmir, Turkey. She has worked as a freelance photographer and filmmaker in Lisbon since 2014 and took part in projects of KINO DOC film courses in Portugal. She completed her master’s degree in Multi Media Art / Photography at the Fine Arts Faculty of Lisbon University. In 2017 Tas directed her first documentary film "My Kaaba is HUMAN" which was screened in several film festivals in different countries. The documentary inspired her long-term, ongoing project AUTRUI (My Kaaba is HUMAN previously named) where she shoots portrait photos and publishes stories of people from different cultures and countries. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS -An Analysis of ‘Rich and Poor’ Photography Series by Jim Goldberg in the Light of Deconstruction Theory of Jacques Derrida, Counter-Image 2022 International Conference: Photo Impulse Final Conference: Decolonizing visuality, Lisbon, Portugal, 13-15 July 2022. - Abstract Video Piece for "Structural parameters for the non-place in, Hermes, nove da noite", Experimentation And Beyond In Music. Xperimus Conference, Porto, Portugal; 15-16 April 2022. Financed by CIEBA/FCT. - Invited Speaker for Discussion Panel, 1st International Conference on Cinema, Philosophy and... Children's World, Organized by researchers of the CineLab´s Working Group "Cinema & Philosophy: Philosophical Approaches" in the context of the EPLab`s Project (2018-2021) "The Social and Economic Integration of Refugees in Portugal: A Normative Assessment of Moral Duties, Public Policies, and Social Values" | FCT Project: PTDC/FER-ETC/30378/2017, Nova University, Lisbon, Portugal July 8 - July 12, 2019. SCHOLARSHIPS and MEMBERSHIPS 2016 - Scholarship Master Degree, by Ayhan Sahenk Non-Governmental Organization, Turkey. 2017 - 2018 Member of Board of Directors and Film Selection Committee, JIYAN Lisbon Kurdish Film & Arts Festival, Lisbon/Portugal. ART RESIDENCIES 2022 - Artistic residency / Collaboration with João Quinteiro for the Project "Depurações para um Regresso", Portugal. UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS 2022 - Solo Exhibition, Casa das Artes, Porto, Portugal. (Inauguration on 3rd of September)