Basak Senova is a curator and designer. She studied literature and graphic design (MFA in graphic design and Ph.D. in art, design and architecture at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey) and attended the 7^th curatorial training program of Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam. Currently, she is a visiting professor at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. Senova has been writing on art, technology, and media, initiating and developing projects and curating exhibitions since 1995. She is one of the founding members of NOMAD, as well as the organizer of «ctrl_alt_del» sound art project.

Senova is the Turkish correspondent of Flash Art International. She acted as an advisory board member of the Turkish Pavilion in Venice Biennial and also the Istanbul Biennial. She is a member of the editorial board of Pass, International Biennial Association’s journal. She was the curator of the Pavilion of Turkey and Northern Macedonia at the Venice Biennale (2009 and 2015). She co-curated the UNCOVERED (Cyprus) and the 2^nd and 5^th Biennial of Contemporary Art, D-0 ARK Underground (Bosnia and Herzegovina). In 2014, she acted as the Art Gallery Chair of (ACM) SIGGRAPH 2014 (Vancouver); the curator of the Helsinki Photography Biennial 2014 and the Jerusalem Show VII: Fractures. In 2019, she curated the inaugural exhibition of B7L9, Climbing through the Tide in Tunis. From 2017 to 2019 she worked on a research-based art project CrossSections in Vienna, Helsinki, and Stockholm. At the moment, together with Barbara Putz-Plecko, she is running a research-based educational program «The Octopus Programme» at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.