A designer and creative technologist, Şansım Adalı’s work consistently returns to one central idea: rethinking fashion through the intersection of technology, data, and aesthetics. As the founder of Sudietuz, she operates within what she defines as a “Creative Algorithm Solutionist” approach—developing design processes that merge computational thinking with artistic expression.

Rooted in street couture aesthetics, her practice evolves through the integration of 3D printing technologies with traditional craftsmanship, creating hybrid forms that expand the technical and conceptual boundaries of fashion. For Adalı, this approach is not only about form, but function—imagining garments as systems that can respond, adapt, and solve.

At Sónar+D, she brings this forward-looking perspective to the stage, exploring how algorithmic design and emerging technologies can shape the future of fashion into a field of intelligent, problem-solving wearables.

A multidisciplinary artist and lecturer based in Istanbul, Elçin Arpaçay’s work consistently returns to one central question: what does it mean to exist online today? Her practice explores the fractures between the collective memory of the early internet and today’s platform-driven ecosystems, examining how digital environments reshape identity and perception.

Working across image, data, and performance, she approaches the body as both archive and interface—reconstructed through the flows of visuals and information circulating in networked spaces. Within this context, digital avatars emerge as performative extensions of the self, acting as mediated identities that move fluidly across platforms.

At Sónar+D, we’ve invited her to bring her perspective to the stage, reflecting on how emerging technologies transform visual culture and redefine contemporary forms of

subjectivity and self-representation in the digital age.

A stylist and artist, Gizem Erhan—also known through her alter ego Cassandra—returns to one central idea in her work: using artificial intelligence as a medium to construct layered, symbolic visual narratives. Working within the framework of “seamless imagery,” she compresses powerful subtexts into each frame, blending aesthetics with conceptual depth.

Through Cassandra—a shape-shifting persona—her practice reflects a search for strength and identity within the chaos of modern life. This alter ego becomes both a refuge and a form of resistance, challenging dominant contemporary figures and visual norms.

At the core of her work, AI is not the subject but the tool: a system she directs to serve her artistic vision. At Sónar+D, she brings this perspective to the stage, exploring how AI can be used to expand visual storytelling and redefine the boundaries of authorship and identity in digital art.