Prof.Dr. Pelin Tan, (Sociologist / Art Historian). Head of the Film Dept., Fine Arts Faculty, University of Batman, Türkiye. Senior researcher at the Center for Design, Arts and Social Research (Boston). 6th recipient of Keith Haring Art&Activism (2019, New York). Lead Author of Towards an Urban Society (Cambridge Univ.Press, 2018) edited by S.Sassen and E.Peitersen, the International Panel of Social Progress. 

Her current short documentary “Landscapes as Archives” is about the production of architecture in Palestine supported by the Qattan Foundation, Ramallah (2023). With Vidokle she produced “The Fall of Artists’ Republic” in Tripoli/Lebanon (2014). Her last film "Gılgamesh: She, Who Saw the Deep" (2022) supported by Sharjah Film Platform.