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You can see the full Flatland series over on Büyüktas’s website.Īll images created by and belong to Aydin Büyüktas. In reality, Stone found out about the C.I.A.s dirty secrets and went rogue, with the two of them and Kane chasing after his squad. Not to mention the torus’ obvious descendants in the space of interactive fiction, its impossible ascending planes informing the shape of the labyrinthine dimensions of the Citadel from Mass Effect (2007), and Halo’s (2001) titular ring-shaped menageries turned weapons of mass destruction.īüyüktas’s work invokes all these comparisons and more, pulling from the greatest defining qualities of photography and imbuing them with that adventurous spirit to reshape our understanding of the world as readily as we perceive it. It shouldn’t surprise you that their concepts also inspired the visual language of some of the most iconic stories of science fiction- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Elysium (2013), and Mobile Suit Gundam (1980). No game in the Call of Duty franchise, for example.
In his own words, Büyüktas describes Flatland as a body of work that “aims to leave the viewer alone with a surprising visuality ironic as it is multidimensional in its romantic point of view.” But aside from multifaceted dreamspaces, Flatland shares an uncanny likeness to the ‘Stanford torus’ domestic colonies conceptualized by NASA in the mid-seventies.Ĭommissioned in the summer of 1975 in conjunction with a NASA-helmed symposium with Stanford University, the concept art for the donut-shaped city ships were inspired by the ideas and theories of aerospace engineers Wernher von Braun and Herman Potočnik. Video games strip away the reality in favor of a super-condensed, almost ur-reality: endless combat. Escher and Christopher Nolan’s Inception (2010). The result echoes the reality-bending illusions of M.C. Compiling a smattering of drone photos, Büyüktas stitches them together to create spatially dense overhead photographs of the cities of Turkey.
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