Özge Samancı (born 21 July 1975 in İzmir)[1] is a Turkish-American media artist, and associate professor at Northwestern University`s School of Communication.

[3][4] Her installations use media arts to break down people's mental and emotional barriers and hear about environmental issues.

Her story takes place after the military coup leading to Turkey's rapid change to neo-capitalism from 1980 to 2000.

[14] Her drawings have appeared in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Slate Magazine, The Huffington Post, Airmail, Guernica and The Rumpus.

Samanci ran Ordinary Things, an online comics journal with more than 1800 comic-collage images depicting her daily observations, from 2016 through 2020.

[15] Fiber Optic Ocean composes music generated by live data from sharks and humans.