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Welcome. My name is Memo Akten. I’m an artist, director, musician, engineer, toy maker, mad scientist based in London, UK.

I like to investigate and visualize the invisible relationships within images, sound, movement, space and time.

I like to extract, amplify and embellish the unseen; exploring and exploiting processes rooted in observation, mathematics and science.

I develop and appropriate emerging technologies; I design systems to invent new ways of creating and performing images and sound.

I’m driven by the urge to make the seemingly impossible, possible; and awaken our childlike instincts to explore and discover new forms of interaction and expression.

I like to touch people, in their most private places, and make them giggle or cry.

I have exhibited and performed around the world including the Victoria & Albert Museum (London, UK), Royal Festival Hall (London, UK), Edinburgh Film Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland), Holon Museum (Tel Aviv, Israel), Garage Center for Contemporary Culture (Moscow, Russia), Yota Space (St. Petersburg, Russia), Sydney Biennale (Sydney, Australia), Creators Project (New York, Sao Paulo, Beijing) and other events and venues in Paris, Tokyo, Cape Town, Venice, Hong Kong.

I’m on the selection committee of ACM SIGGraph and advisor to the Architectural Associations Design Research Lab. I also give talks and lectures at international conferences and events.

In 2007 I founded The Mega Super Awesome Visuals Company which in 2011 expanded and gave birth to Marshmallow Laser Feast, a network of artists, designers, animators, directors, architects, engineers, programmers and musicians.

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This site is dedicated to my personal projects, research and collaborations.