7. C.M. Kosemen Takes Us On an Epic Journey Through Time, Space and Imagination

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English - June 01, 2020 11:05 - 1 hour - 89.7 MB
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Episode 7. C.M. Kosemen

This week I sat down with a Turkish artist, historian, author, and speculative evolutionary biologist whose imagination will take you into previously uncharted realms of thought.

C.M. “Memo” Kosemen is a creative genius who is well known for his paleo-art, depicting dinosaurs and other extinct animals with an eye to revealing a little more of the true nature of these extinct beings from a bygone era.

Memo is a huge fan of engaging in speculative thought experiments – He’s not afraid to jump down the rabbit hole and see how deep it goes with a free and open mind, while still managing to be grounded in a scientific rationality that informs his art, as much as it seems at odds to it at first glance.

He is also a highly esteemed historian and author, who has helped shed light on some of the untold stories of his home country, as well as other parts of the world.

I had a really fun time talking with Memo, and we touch on surreal art, strange creatures, evolution, life on other worlds, cryptozoology, dinosaurs, the landscape and culture of Turkey, and what inspires C.M. Kosemen in his art and other pursuits.

----more---- SOME RELEVANT LINKS:

C.M. Kosemen’s Website
http://cmkosemen.com/

C.M. Kosemen on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/user/cmkosemen

C.M. Kosemen on Instagram
@cmkosemen
https://instagram.com/cmkosemen?igshid=1mxbf02u5b8jn

Tangent Realms Movie
https://www.tangentrealmsmovie.com/

The Empire Project Gallery, Istanbul
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts-culture/2018/02/05/sanctuary-of-the-mind-the-evolutionary-imagination-of-cm-kosemen

Visit Snaiad
https://canopy.uc.edu/bbcswebdav/users/gibsonic/Snaiad/snduterus.html

Decade - Surreal Artworks by C.M Kosemen
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kLmrvt2lu7Tz2WRT2clcTDVSRokrQXZi/view

All Tomorrows book
http://marsh.speedrunwiki.com/Text/alltomorrows.pdf

Find Cryptozoologicon, All Yesterdays, and All Your Yesterdays at
http://irregularbooks.art/

Article in Daily Sabah
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts-culture/2018/02/05/sanctuary-of-the-mind-the-evolutionary-imagination-of-cm-kosemen

Review of All Yesterdays
https://bogleech.com/allyesterdays.html