She works with the language of algorithms to generate them performs them by hand. The rules are followed, tested, and occasionally disrupted—allowing misreadings, improvisation, and the limitations of the “drawing engine” to shape the work. Rather than aiming for perfect precision, the practice treats rules as rituals: a method for cultivating ambiguity, plurality, and the poetics of non-determinism.

The resulting images push primitive forms into complex systems. Meaning is carried not only by the final composition, but also by the rhetoric of the algorithm itself—where code becomes a site of agency and subjective interpretation is treated as a parameter rather than a flaw.

Gürbüz’s postgraduate research project Drawing Like A Machine investigates the language of algorithms with a focus on ambiguity and agency, using algorithmic drawing as its medium.