Sensorium
We regret to inform you that Memo Akten unfortunatelly canceled his participation at this years festival for medical reasons.
Memo Akten (TUR/USA) is an ever inspiring artist, musician, researcher, curious mind and philomath who works with computation as a medium and language to investigate the collisions between nature, science, technology, ethics, ritual, tradition and religion; reflecting the intersection of science and spirituality. He is finishing a PhD in artificial intelligence/machine learning focusing on expressive human-machine interaction at Goldsmiths UoL, attempting to deepen collaborative creativity between humans and machines and augment human creative expression.
Memo Akten received the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica in 2013 for his collaboration with David Quayola, »Forms«. Since 2009 his works Body Paint and Gold have toured with the Victoria & Albert Museum’s Decode exhibition, and in 2014, his work as Marshmallow Laser Feast Laser Forest was part of the Barbican’s Digital Revolution exhibition. His other exhibition and performance locations include the Grand Palais (Paris FR), Royal Opera House (London UK), Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Moscow RU), Holon Museum (Tel Aviv IL), EYE Film Institute (Amsterdam NL) and Lisbon Architecture Triennale (Lisbon PT).
Experience Memo's talk at the Sensorium Stage!
CANCELED: Memo Akten
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Michaela Musilová
Astrobiologist (SK/USA)
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Freya Murray
Creative Lead at Google Arts & Culture Lab (UK)
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Irini Papadimitriou
Future Everything (GR/UK)
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Ferdi Alici & Eylul Duranagac
OUCHHH Studio (TUR)
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Evelyn Benčičová
Visual Artist (SK/DE)
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Lucia Gregorová Stach
Curator at SNG (SK)
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Carmen Aguilar y Wedge & Romy Gad el Rab
Hyphen Labs (UK)
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Safa Ghnaim - Tactical Tech
Data-activism (DE)
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Rachel Uwa
School of MA (US/DE)
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Mária Júdová
Media Artist (SK/CZ)
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Ivana Palečková
Graphic designer (SK)
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Samuel Velebný
Media Artist (SK)
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Claire Tymon
FutureEverything (UK)
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Saša Spačal
Media Artist (SI)
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Lukas Truniger
Media Artist (CH)
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Lukáš Pilka
Digital designer (CZ)
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CANCELED: Memo Akten
Media Artist (TUR/US)