Gokcen Erkilic is a data artist, architect, urbanist, educator, and founder of Coastliner Lab (CLLab)—a transdisciplinary research and design initiative exploring planetary intelligence, hydro-commons, and collective sensing practices in watery systems.

She taught at Northeastern University, College of Arts, Media and Design, and is affiliated with metaLAB at Harvard.

Work published, exhibited, and performed at Ocean Archive, Sharjah Biennial, Arts Letters & Numbers, Materia Arquitectura, Salt Research, Arter, YapıKredi Culture and Arts, Pera Museum, Manifold Press, Venice Architecture Biennale.