Eray Dinc

He was born in Istanbul on 24th January 1988. He studied Communication Design and Cinema Directing at Istanbul Kültür University and won more than 10 international awards for his films and video artworks. He completed his Master’s Degree in Cinema-TV at Kadir Has University. He served as the head of the cinema department for 4 years at the Sadri Alışık Cultural Center. In 2014, he wrote the interactive filmmaking book titled Making Movies Without Money. He is the co-founder of Recontact Games, which combines cinema and video games into a new art form through pioneering technologies. His first game, Recontact Istanbul, won “The Best Game Award by App Store”. The game was also exhibited in art galleries such as the Pera Museum as an extension of video art and received the Best App award at the Los Angeles New Media Film Festival. He completed his Ph.D. in Proficiency in Arts, Cinema-TV at Beykent University. His second video game, Eyes of Sky, debuted on platforms as the world’s first cinematographic game and won international awards such as IMGA San Francisco. Dinç is also the co-founder of Kıraarthane, a social impact project providing free new media art design education to village children. Dr. Eray Dinç is an Assistant Professor at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University and Beykent University, Faculty of Communication, and Head of the Digital Game Design Department. Using the camera as a narrative tool, Dinç continues to work on street and art photography as the Leica Club Turkey Ambassador. Eray nurtured his students from university to develop the game, Nazar. The Unity development of NAZAR was carried out by Eray Dinç's students from the Digital Game Design Department of Istanbul Beykent University, where he is the founder and head of game design department.