Ulus Baker

Ulus Sedat Baker (July 14, 1960 – July 12, 2007) was a Turkish Cypriot sociologist.

Biography Baker was born on July 14, 1960, in Leningrad, USSR. He was born to a cosmopolitan family; his mother was the Cypriot poet Pembe Marmara, and his father was the prominent psychiatrist of the island, Sedat Baker. Baker studied in the Soviet Union, Turkey, France, and Cyprus. He studied Sociology at the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, where he later taught as a lecturer. in 1993 with Aras Ozgun, Hakan Topal, Ali Demirel and Ersan Ocak. Körotonomedya collective has been among the forerunners of experimental new media and video art in Turkey, and Baker's work within the collective became a major theoretical resource in these fields. The collective ceased their activities in 2011.

In 2007, Baker was teaching modern visual arts and visual thinking at the Audio Visual Systems Research and Production Centre (GİSAM) of METU and at Istanbul Bilgi University. He died on July 12, 2007, in Istanbul after being hospitalized for chronic liver deficiency.

Besides a multitude of articles in various publications, Baker's published works include; What is Opinion? (Pyromedia, 2001), Aşındırma Denemeleri (Birikim Yayınları, Istanbul, 2002), Siyasal Alanın Oluşumu Üzerine Bir Deneme'' (Paragraf Yayınları, Ankara, 2005).