Still Here: A System of Repetition, Erasure and Remains
Still Here: A System of Repetition, Erasure and Remains is a generative, web-based text system developed as an extended media project. The work is based on documented cases of femicide in Turkey and uses a procedural structure to expose how violence becomes normalized, repeated, and gradually erased through media and institutional cycles.
The system continuously runs in a loop, presenting fragmented data from real cases: names, ages, locations, circumstances, and documented legal and media responses. The work reveals multiple overlapping realities that shift between visibility and disappearance.
Each sequence briefly appears, dissolves, and returns again, reflecting how these cases circulate in public memory before fading from attention. The repetition is not aesthetic, but structural, mirroring systemic patterns rather than individual stories.
Built using a logic inspired by generative literary systems, the project uses code as a narrative engine. The system does not resolve or conclude; it continues indefinitely, reflecting the ongoing nature of the issue it references.
The work takes a position of responsibility rather than authorship. It does not aim to aestheticize violence, but to expose its structure through repetition, data, and form. No illustrations or emotional framing are used. Only recorded facts are present, allowing the system itself to carry meaning.
What is seen, what is repeated, and what is ignored are all part of the system.
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