ha:ar was founded by the Istanbul and New York-based sculptor Hande Sekerciler and new media artist Arda Yalkin, with the passionate drive to bring together the classical approach to art with the new technologies. Their enthusiasm to master their production and investigate new possibilities of expression enabled the duo to create in a wide range of disciplines including not only the conventional ones like painting and sculpture but video, animation, music, generative art, and even artificial intelligence. The main theme of ha:ar's works that search for a new and unique way of expression in a combination of each of the artist's individual practices can be summarized as "the conflict between the civilization and technology created by humankind and its ways of existing"
ha:ar was invited and attended some of the most prominent artist's residency programs in the USA: Residency Unlimited (NYC) Artist Alliance International (NYC) and 18th Street Art Center (LA). Opening their first solo exhibition as a duo in New York in 2018, they participated in Art Miami in 2019. Their following solo shows include Ankara (CerModern), Venedik (GAD) , Milano (Scalo Lambratte), İstanbul (Contemporary Istanbul) all taking place in 2021, and London (J.D. Malat Gallery) in 2022. Their artist's book "Electric Mannerism" covering their exhibitions in Italy was published the same year. ha:ar is the cofounder of Piksel New Media Artist's Residency Program HYPERLINK "http://www.piksel.ist/"www.piksel.ist), a not-profit non-governmental organization with the mission of teaching young artists about new media art. Their works have been exhibited in galleries, fairs, museums, and international exhibitions in Turkey, the USA, Spain, Italy, France, the UK, Hungary, Greece, and Russia.
