About

 Artist – XR Developer – Meta-architect

Ersin Bactisa is a fully licensed architect. After almost 3 years of practice in the field, following a road accident that put his professional activity on hold, he decided to change his life's course to other activities, which provoke a different kind of creative thinking. With an affinity for digital painting and new technology, Ersin is driving his exploration towards creating interactive experiences with art. The portraits he creates graphically express metaphors for the deepest and most overwhelming human thoughts or feelings. The added digital layering is meant to augment the ideas behind the paintings and not just be a technological demonstration.

Web 3.0

Web3, NFTs, metaverse are keywords for the revolution that is laying its foundations right now. Ersin is taking an active part in this revolution. He is part of the team behind the Crypto Heads Society NFT collection, sells NFTs on theone.art platform and works for Voxel Architects, a company whose main occupation is architecture for the metaverse.

In the world we live in, we either adapt to change or a line will deepen between those who move forward and those who stay put. In the context of the events of the last few years, collective and individual psychology suffers anyway, and technology presses harder.

Activity history

Exhibitions

  • Blue Biennale 2023, 01.10.2023 – 05.11.2023, 2 lucrări
    [link] Blue Biennale
  • Fusion Arts – 09-10.09.2023, expoziție de grup, 3 lucrări
  • MoBU International Art Fair of Bucharest – 19.05.2023 – 28.05.2023, reprezentat de galeria Rotenberg-Uzunov, 7 lucrări
    [link] Site MoBU
  • Fusion Arts – 02.03.2023, group exhibition, 3 works
  • Dialogue – 14.12.2022, 2 artists exhibition, 11 works
  • Fusion Arts – 24-25.09.2022, 2 works
  • Rotenberg-Uzunov Gallery - 14.04.2022-10.05.2022, solo exhibition Locked People, 4 works
    [link] Visit the exhibition
  • Rome International Art Fair  – 19.11.2021-03.12.2021, one work
    [link] Rome International Art Fair 2021
  • Blue Biennale 2021 – 17.10.2021 – 20.11.2021, one work
    [link] Blue Biennale
  • Creative New World by Mirinda, NFTs, 24.09.2021 – 28.09.2021, one work
    [link] IQAds Article
  • Noblesse group, Fusion Arts, 11-13.06.2021, 3 works
    [link] Fusion Arts
  • ArtNumber23, online exhibition, 15.12.2020 – 05.01.2021, 3 works
    [link] ArtNumber23

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 Meta-architect

Synopsis:

I started to work with Voxel Architects on March 15th, 2022, on a 3d modeler position. Since then, I have also taken on programming tasks, and later leadership.


New Media Art

Education:

  • self taught

Synopsis:

Due to large interests in art and technology, I was always attracted to exploring software that allows me to create, to innovate. Due to personal events in my life regarding health, I had the opportunity to take a break from architecture to fully explore these interests. I’m extending my area of work from creating 2D paintings to creating 3D augmented reality and virtual reality experiences that involve interactivity between user – art – real – virtual.

  • Period: 2021
  • Project: The Fortune Teller
  • Synopsis: This app is programmed to recognize the painting and randomly displays messages in the augmented reality model every 10 seconds from an over 500 messages database
  • Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsqfETgbjDs
  • Period: 2021
  • Project: The Locked People project
  • Synopsis: This app recognizez 7 different paintings and displays 3d interactable models. The arts transfoms itself and tells a story. This project was divided into two separate projects. One will turn into a physical exhibition with Instagram AR filters, while the other will turn into an AR escape-room type of game for android devices.
  • Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=180KKlileZ0
  • Period: 2021, on-going
  • Project: Virtual gallery through augmented reality
  • Synopsis: This app allows the user to open a static virtual gallery in a real space. The user has to physically walk in real space to navigate the virtual one.
  • Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPIFhdDR-x8

Game Design, educational software and programming

Synopsis:

I’ll be listing my most notable projects in this area. Coding experience:

  • C++ (Borland C++) – thousands of lines of code
  • C# (Unity game engine) – thousands of lines of code
  • GML (Gamemaker language, game engine) – thousands of lines of code
  • 3DS Max Script – only one script for automation purposes
  • Photoshop Script – only one script for automation purposes
  • Allplan Script – Python language, a few scripts for automation
  • Period: 05.2020 – 03.2021
  • Activity: Developed Kokorogames accounts on Instagram and YouTube for marking my game coding challenges.
  • Instagram: [link]
  • YouTube: [link]
  • Period: 05.2020 – 12.2020
  • Activity: Developed Shapemorph – a 2d logic game for Android. The game is on playstore. It was developed in Gamemaker.
  • Playstore: [link]
  • Period: ~2 weeks in 2015
  • Activity: Developed Turkish Run – a 2D platformer game for desktop. The game was developed in Gamemaker.
  • Youtube demo: [link]
  • Period: ~2 weeks in 2015
  • Activity: Developed Happy Birthday, Nuray! – a 2D simple game for desktop. The game was developed in Gamemaker..
  • Youtube demo: [link]
  • Period: highschool
  • Activity: Developed Story of Harap-Alb – a text based game with Flash animations. The game was developed in Borland C++. The animations were not done by me.
  • Period: highschool
  • Activity: Developed Military technology in World War II – Virtual museum – a 3d museum made in DX Studio game engine and Visual Basic 6, for desktop. The software was using wireless Wii controllers and pre-programmed voice commands for input. It was using face scanning algorithm for logging in. It was the same period when Kinect came on market for Xbox and it was achieving these types of interactivity with the users.
  • Awards: 1st prize for the county stage of History and society in virtual dimension, Constanta, Romania, 2010
  • Special prize Star Storage – National conference of virtual learning, 8th edition, Târgu Mures, 2010
  • Distinction – Contest of applied informatics, Cluj, 2008
 

Art exhibitions and business management

Developed website in 2021 and made it public in january 2022. This is my art brand. I make 2D digital paintings that I print on canvas as unique pieces (Only one canvas print is produced for each work). I make certificates of authenticity for these works. I print multiple copies in limited series, on cotton paper, on smaller sizes. I made the design for the looks of the website and I manage all the website activity.


Architecture and interior design 

Education:

  • Faculty of Architecture @ University of Architecture and Urbanism Ion Mincu, Bucharest, Romania, license and master degree (2011-2015, 2016-2017)
  • Faculty of Architecture @ Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, Istanbul, Turkey (2015-2016)

Specialization:

  • fully licensed architect since 2020

Work experience as architect:

  • Period: 08.2017 – 09.2019 / 12.2020-01.2021
  • Position: architect intern / fully licensed architect
  • Employer: Inegal Design | Bucharest
  • Activity: design 2D and 3D design for all stages of a project. Furniture design. Renders. Quantities for construction.
  • Types of projects: residential, urbanism
  • Period: 22.08.2016 – 11.11.2016
  • Position: architect intern
  • Employer: Nouvel Habitat Consulting | București
  • Activity: design 2D and 3D design for all stages of a project. Renders. 
  • Types of projects: residential, urbanism
  • Period: 11.08.2014 – 15.11.2014
  • Position: intern architect
  • Employer: VP Holding | București
  • Activity: design 2D and 3D design for all stages of a project. Renders. Quantities for construction.
  • Types of projects: shopping mall, cinematographs
  • Period: 06.2014 – 08.2014
  • Position: architect intern
  • Employer: Vasile Ovidiu Apetrei | București
  • Activity: 2D and 3D design concepts. Renders.
  • Types of projects: green houses, organic houses
  • Period: 29.07.2013 – 03.08.2013 | 28.07.2014 – 02.08.2014 | 30.07.2018 – 03.08.2018
  • Position: instructor Nemetschek Allplan at summer schools
  • Employer: Nemetschek Romania
  • Activity: teaching students and university professors BIM software solution in architecture.
  • Period: 10.2013 – 05.2014 | 10.2014 – 05.2015
  • Position: instructor Nemetschek Allplan in University of Architecture and Urbanism Ion Mincu, Bucharest, Romania
  • Employer: Nemetschek Romania
  • Activity: teaching students BIM software solution in architecture.
  • Period: 2014 – 2015
  • Position: intern architect
  • EmployerI was comissioned several times for various projects.
  • Activity: 2015 – Urban Office – 3d animated presentation of exterior and interior of a newly built building in Bucharest: [link] | 2015 – Inegal Design – 3D modelling and rendering of an apartment | 2014 – Beros & Abdul Architects – building survey and making 3d model | 2014 – Bogdan Desliu Architect – interior design, 3D modelling, renders for a hotel in Eforie, Romania.

Software skills

  • Autodesk 3D Studio Max – 3D modelling, UVW unwrapping, + basic animation and rigging knowledge
  • Autodesk Autocad – 2D drafting, 3D modelling
  • Nemetschek Allplan – 2D drafting, 3D modelling, BIM, quantities
  • Adobe Photoshop – painting, retouching, texturing, editing
  • Materialize – creating textures
  • Unity – game engine – creating AR experiences for Android devices with C# programming, making shaders in Shadergraph
  • Spark AR – creating AR experiences for Instagram
  • Gamemaker – game engine – creating 2D games
  • Adobe Lightroom – image editing
  • Camtasia Studio – clip production
  • Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code – programming
  • Office package – MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint.4