Memo Akten

Instagram: @memo_akten

Website: https://www.memo.tv

Bio: Memo Akten is a multi-disciplinary artist, researcher, and computer scientist working with emerging technologies to create Speculative Simulations and Data Dramatizations that probe the intricacies of human-machine entanglements, examining the cultural, social, and ecological impacts of our contemporary techno-lifestyles. For more than a decade, he has worked with AI, Big Data, and our Collective Consciousness as scraped and shaped by the internet, to reflect on the human condition. His highly collaborative practice spans moving images, sound, poetry, dance, light, performances, installations, and online interventions, where he explores the intersections and tensions between technology and ecology, science and spirituality, modernity and ritual, self and collective intelligence. His work is ultimately driven by a profound curiosity into the nature of reality, the nature of life, and the nature of the mind. He has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica. His work has been exhibited internationally at venues including the Venice Biennale, Barbican, Grand Palais, Mori Art Museum, and Tretyakov Gallery, and is held in prominent collections such as Borusan Contemporary, Vanhaerents Art Collection, and the Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation. His practice has been widely featured in major publications including Wired, Art in America, NY Times, Guardian, and cited in numerous books. He has presented his research at leading academic conferences such as NeurIPS and SIGGRAPH, and his PhD thesis was recognized by the leading art & science journal Leonardo for its ‘special relevance’. He has collaborated with public figures such as Lenny Kravitz, U2, Depeche Mode and Richard Dawkins; and brands including Google, Apple, Twitter, and Sony. He is Assistant Professor at UC San Diego and co-founder of Superradiance Lab where they investigate consciousness, intelligence, and planetary systems through research-based art that bridges embodied experience with emerging technologies.