Memo Akten is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and computer scientist working with code, data, AI, and emerging technologies to explore perception, consciousness, and human-machine relations.https://www.memo.tv/en-ushttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2025/filefestival/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2025/filefestival/Boundaries is a monumental, contemplative artwork that explores the illusory nature of separation — between the self and other, body and environment, matter and mind.Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2025/hopeistanbul/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2025/hopeistanbul/Superradiance is a multiscreen video and sound installation, film and performance by Memo Akten and Katie Hofstadter exploring embodiment, technology, and planetary consciousness.Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2025/jacobspillow/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2025/jacobspillow/Superradiance is a multiscreen video and sound installation, film and performance by Memo Akten and Katie Hofstadter exploring embodiment, technology, and planetary consciousness.Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2025/outernet/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2025/outernet/Superradiance is a multiscreen video and sound installation, film and performance by Memo Akten and Katie Hofstadter exploring embodiment, technology, and planetary consciousness.Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2026/ants/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2026/ants/What if we are the ants? Where is our superorganism going?Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2026/grayarea/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2026/grayarea/Superradiance is a multiscreen video and sound installation, film and performance by Memo Akten and Katie Hofstadter exploring embodiment, technology, and planetary consciousness.Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2026/sixthsense/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2026/sixthsense/Superradiance is a multiscreen video and sound installation, film and performance by Memo Akten and Katie Hofstadter exploring embodiment, technology, and planetary consciousness.Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2026/thinkingocean/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2026/thinkingocean/The Thinking Ocean is a provocation to consider who and what we give personhood to, and why.Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2024/boundaries/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2024/boundaries/Boundaries is a monumental, contemplative artwork that explores the illusory nature of separation — between the self and other, body and environment, matter and mind.Mon, 01 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2025/ctrl/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2025/ctrl/Superradiance is a multiscreen video and sound installation, film and performance by Memo Akten and Katie Hofstadter exploring embodiment, technology, and planetary consciousness.Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2024/embodied-simulation/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2024/embodied-simulation/Superradiance is a multiscreen video and sound installation, film and performance by Memo Akten and Katie Hofstadter exploring embodiment, technology, and planetary consciousness.Mon, 01 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2024/superradiance/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2024/superradiance/Superradiance is a multiscreen video and sound installation, film and performance by Memo Akten and Katie Hofstadter exploring embodiment, technology, and planetary consciousness.Sun, 01 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2024/embodying-earth/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2024/embodying-earth/Superradiance is a multiscreen video and sound installation, film and performance by Memo Akten and Katie Hofstadter exploring embodiment, technology, and planetary consciousness.Thu, 01 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2024/superradiance-makingof/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2024/superradiance-makingof/Superradiance is a multiscreen video and sound installation, film and performance by Memo Akten and Katie Hofstadter exploring embodiment, technology, and planetary consciousness.Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2024/lff/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2024/lff/Superradiance is a multiscreen video and sound installation, film and performance by Memo Akten and Katie Hofstadter exploring embodiment, technology, and planetary consciousness.Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2024/taikang/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2024/taikang/Superradiance is a multiscreen video and sound installation, film and performance by Memo Akten and Katie Hofstadter exploring embodiment, technology, and planetary consciousness.Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2024/tribeca/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2024/tribeca/'Embodied Simulation' by Memo Akten and Katie Hofstadter is a multiscreen video and sound installation that aims to provoke and nurture strong connections to the global ecosystems of which we are a part. Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2024/unfoldx/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2024/unfoldx/Boundaries is a monumental, contemplative artwork that explores the illusory nature of separation — between the self and other, body and environment, matter and mind.Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2003/abstractshit-com/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2003/abstractshit-com/The eternal battle between the quest for internal peace and external pressure is never-ending.Sat, 01 Mar 2003 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2024/venice-biennale/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2024/venice-biennale/Boundaries is a monumental, contemplative artwork that explores the illusory nature of separation — between the self and other, body and environment, matter and mind.Mon, 15 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2003/ecstasy/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2003/ecstasy/Inspired by and dedicated to Soledad Miranda’s (RIP) performance in the movie Vampyros Lesbos.Mon, 29 Dec 2003 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2003/the-morning-after/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2003/the-morning-after/Music excerpt from Frost Investigations by Chris Clarke.Thu, 29 May 2003 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2007/qcmsabadtv/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2007/qcmsabadtv/An opensource Quartz Composer patch and plugin for QC compatible hosts to simulate the analog distortion of a bad tv signal.Thu, 24 May 2007 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2008/gold/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2008/gold/As an interactive piece – unlike some of my other similar works (e.g. Body Paint, Reincarnation) – this work is more about not moving, as opposed to moving. When you stay still, a shimmering glittery gold image of yourself appears. As soon as you move, or even breathe, it crumbles and vanishes.Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2008/msafluid/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2008/msafluid/A simple to use opensource C++ / Java / AS3 library (with examples) for openFrameworks, Cinder, Processing and Flash, for solving and displaying real-time 2D cell-based fluid simulations based on Navier-Stokes equations. The library provides a very simple to use API with many convenience methods forThu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2007/amoeba-dance/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2007/amoeba-dance/Real-time audio-reactive exploration of abstract anthropomorphism and unconventional computer generated visuals and 3D aesthetics.Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2008/his-spaghedeitys-screensaver/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2008/his-spaghedeitys-screensaver/I was sitting minding my own business, exploring accumulation buffers in Quartz Composer, when all of a sudden I just zoned out, and next thing I know, I found myself staring at Him on my screen.Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2008/msaphysics/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2008/msaphysics/A simple to use opensource C++ library (with examples) for openFrameworks and Cinder, for particle and constraint based physics with springs, attractors and collision. It uses a similar API to the Traer.physics library for Processing, to make transferring code from Processing & Traer to openFrameworThu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2008/msaqtplayer/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2008/msaqtplayer/A Mega Super Awesome (and mega super simple), fullscreen / multiple output Quicktime player with fast, greater-than-4096-pixels support (for Mac OSX).Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2008/my-secret-heart/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2008/my-secret-heart/My Secret Heart is a music and film installation & performance commissioned by Streetwise Opera with music composed by Mira Calix and sound design by David Sheppard. The piece is inspired by the Allegri’s 17th-century choral work Miserere Mei, a piece so protected by the Vatican that they put an embSat, 29 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2008/qcmsaquadwarper/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2008/qcmsaquadwarper/GLSL Shader to do Quad Warping and map textures to surfaces. Created as a Quartz Composer patch which allows it to be used as a plugin for any QC compatible host.Mon, 26 May 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2009/depeche-mode-fragile-tension/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2009/depeche-mode-fragile-tension/Music video for Depeche Mode’s latest single “Fragile Tension”. I designed and developed software (using C++ / openframeworks) to process live footage of the band and dancers. The software analyzes the footage, and in real-time outputs visualizations based on motion and numerous user-controlled paraSun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2009/iscream-for-iphone/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2009/iscream-for-iphone/1. The awkwardness of trying to organize icons on the iPhone home screen, buggy and unforgiving in implementation. 2. Having a number of ‘art applications’ rejected on the App Store for ‘not being functional enough’Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2009/ofxmsainterpolator/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2009/ofxmsainterpolator/A set of C++ template classes for doing various types of interpolations on data in any number of dimensions.Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2009/ofxmsaopencl/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2009/ofxmsaopencl/An opensource C++ library (with many examples) for openFrameworks to allow OpenCL functionality, the open standard for parallel programming across many-core CPUs and GPUs.Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2009/body-paint/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2009/body-paint/Our body is a vessel for emotional expression. We have a natural instinct to express ourselves through movement. Body Paint leverages our ability for non-verbal expressive communication, and combines it with our desire to create; even more so, our desire to create something beautiful.Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2009/reincarnation/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2009/reincarnation/Part of an ongoing series of works investigating the abstraction of human form and movement – in particular, playing on the boundaries of abstract and figurative.Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2009/udp-tcp-bridge/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2009/udp-tcp-bridge/An opensource, cross platform, C++ UDP-TCP Bridge. Originally created to forward UDP TUIO (OSC) messages straight to TCP to be read from within Flash.Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2010/deutsche-bank-hong-kong/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2010/deutsche-bank-hong-kong/A permanent installation of 8 dynamic video artworks in the lobby of Deutsche Bank Hong Kong. Atmospheric cityscapes, hand-drawn sceneries, patterns and landscape animations welcome visitors and staff, shown on a 12m wide hi-res screen. The animations are generated in realtime by a bespoke software Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2010/blaze-the-streetdance-show/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2010/blaze-the-streetdance-show/My company The Mega Super Awesome Visuals Company (MSA Visuals Ltd) designed and created all of the visuals for the touring streetdance show Blaze. The show toured for 9 years, and the visuals included live projection mapping of a very complex stage designed by Es Devlin. We used entirely custom sofSun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2010/webcam-piano/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2010/webcam-piano/Webcam Piano 2.0, uses smarter algorithms than v1.0 (it was developed before affordable depth cameras like the kinect were available) to try and understand motion and interpret how the person (or people) are moving and what kind of sounds they might be wanting and expecting to create with their moveThu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2010/wombats-techno-fan/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2010/wombats-techno-fan/Music video for Wombats’ latest single “Techno Fan” made using custom software.Thu, 30 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2011/forms/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2011/forms/For more than two decades, I have been creating research-based work investigating the relationships between our bodies and technology.Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2011/sony-playstation3-video-store/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2011/sony-playstation3-video-store/Three online promos for the launch of Sony PlayStation’s video streaming service. Our job was to ‘transform a living room and bring it alive’ hinting at various hollywood blockbuster franchises. So we decided to push projection mapping to a new level.Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2011/tuiopad/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2011/tuiopad/An open source TUIO tracker for iOS devices such as iPad, iPhone and iPod touch that allows multitouch remote control based on the TUIO protocol.Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2012/meet-your-creator/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2012/meet-your-creator/A live theatrical performance / kinetic light sculpture with quadrotor drones, LEDs, motorized mirrors and moving head spotlights dancing in a joyous robo-ballet celebration of techno-spirituality. Exploring semi-autonomous, computer programmed UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) as a means to deflect aFri, 29 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2012/mocap2web/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2012/mocap2web/Research and demo to stream live motion capture data of performer(s) to the web for abstract visualisation and playful interaction in the browser.Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2012/ofxardrone/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2012/ofxardrone/C++ openFrameworks addon and OSC Bridge to interface with and control Parrot AR Drone QuadCopters.Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2012/volumetric-3d-slitscan/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2012/volumetric-3d-slitscan/True volumetric 3D slitscan (should it be called surface-scanning?).Fri, 04 May 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2013/just-for-hits/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2013/just-for-hits/A provocation on creativity, technology, cultural evolution and internet culture; featuring Professor Richard Dawkins.Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2013/laser-fingers/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2013/laser-fingers/Research into real-time, programmatic laser control.Thu, 30 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2013/reducible-complexity/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2013/reducible-complexity/3-4ch HD video, 2ch sound Duration: 5:00 seamless loop Dimensions: variableSun, 29 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2013/laser-forest/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2013/laser-forest/A large interactive musical laser forest. Commissioned by and premiered at the STRP Biennale in Eindhoven, this giant interactive forest covers almost 450 square meters and is composed of over 150 musical ‘trees’ made of rods and lasers. The audience can freely explore the space, physically tapping,Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2014/equilibrium/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2014/equilibrium/‘Equilibrium’ (2014) is a touch-screen video installation, an interactive abstraction, a data dramatization, of the delicate balance in which an ecosystem hangs – an extremely fragile structure susceptible to the slightest external perturbations; but simultaneously also very resilient in its abilityTue, 29 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2014/keeper-of-our-collective-consciousness/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2014/keeper-of-our-collective-consciousness/As part of my research-based practice, for over a decade I have been investigating internet-based Big Data-driven algorithmic surveillance (now called ‘AI’), and the new rituals and myths emerging in this climate, exploring the tensions between intimacy, privacy, security and surveillance capitalismThu, 29 May 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2014/the-measures-taken/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2014/the-measures-taken/An interactive stage performance, commissioned by the Royal Opera House. A collaboration with Alexander Whitley Dance Company.Tue, 29 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2015/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace-deepdream-edition/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2015/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace-deepdream-edition/High resolution print (1800mm x 1000mm).Tue, 29 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2015/journey-through-the-layers-of-the-mind/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2015/journey-through-the-layers-of-the-mind/I know everybody hates #Deepdream, but I really love it. However, it’s not the aesthetics that I love, but the poetry of what’s happening inside the algorithm.Mon, 29 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2015/ofxmsamcts/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2015/ofxmsamcts/C++11 Templated MCTS (Monte Carlo Tree Search) library with examples for openFrameworks.Wed, 24 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2015/waves/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2015/waves/“Waves” is a series of projects that draws upon the well established history of both artistic and scientific study on oceans and oceanic waves. Inspired by the likes of J.M.W Turner, Katsushika Hokusai, Ivan Aivazovsky, and many others, it is a data dramatization of complex ocean simulations, distilFri, 29 May 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2016/epicmonetguy/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2016/epicmonetguy/There has been an explosion in Artificial Intelligence Deep Learning research recently, allowing images to be synthesised in various novel ways. These include algorithms which can ‘learn’ the ‘style’ of a particular painting (e.g. Monet, Van Gogh etc) and ‘apply’ it to a photograph. While this reseaMon, 07 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2016/dronery/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2016/dronery/> is it time for this yet? #drone #surfing pic.twitter.com/MRwXAU1cfP > > — memo akten (@memotv) January 16, 2016Sat, 16 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2016/ofxmsatensorflow/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2016/ofxmsatensorflow/A C++ openFrameworks wrapper for Google’s graph based machine intelligence / deep learning library TensorFlow. Includes many examples for training (in python) and then loading pretrained models in C++ for running inference (or generation) on images (e.g. pix2pix, style transfer, classification) and Tue, 23 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2016/pattern-recognition/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2016/pattern-recognition/“I see the awakening of consciousness as a series of spaced flashes, with the intervals between them gradually diminishing until bright blocks of perception are formed, affording memory a slippery hold.” Vladimir NabokovThu, 28 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2016/petita-dumdum-techa/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2016/petita-dumdum-techa/I like the abstract poetry of Petita Tatata, so every day I download and improvise music over them.Sun, 29 May 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2016/wordofmath/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2016/wordofmath/A twitter bot exploring the structure of word embeddings (latent space) to expose our own biases and how we project meaning onto the outputs of AI models.Thu, 30 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2016/wordofmathbias/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2016/wordofmathbias/A twitter bot exploring the latent space, bias, stereotypes, and embedded vs projected meanings of word vector models such as Google’s Word2Vec.Thu, 30 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2017/bibtex-title-generator/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2017/bibtex-title-generator/Given a .bib file (i.e. containing a list of academic papers’ titles, authors, abstracts etc), generates a plausible sounding title for your next paper based on an acronym you give it.Sat, 23 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2017/fight/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2017/fight/“Fight is a seminal piece, … one of the most compelling (and mind bending) pieces I’ve seen in VR.” – Robin McNicholas, founder of Marshmallow Laser Feast.Tue, 28 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2017/gloomy-sunday/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2017/gloomy-sunday/Using custom models trained on four different datasets (the four natural elements): ocean & waves (representing ‘water’), clouds & sky (representing ‘air’), fire, flowers (representing earth, and life);Wed, 09 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2017/hello-world/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2017/hello-world/For a much deeper conceptual and technical analysis, please see Chapter 4 of my PhD Thesis.Fri, 28 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2017/learning-to-dream/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2017/learning-to-dream/Part of the Learning to See series:Thu, 09 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2017/learning-to-see-interactive/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2017/learning-to-see-interactive/This particular edition is an interactive installation in which a number of neural networks analyse a live camera feed pointing at a table covered in everyday objects. Through a very tactile, hands-on experience, the audience can manipulate the objects on the table with their hands, and see correspoMon, 05 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2017/learning-to-see-studies/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2017/learning-to-see-studies/Earlier studies from the Learning to See series.Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2017/learning-to-see/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2017/learning-to-see/An artificial neural network looks out onto the world, and tries to make sense of what it is seeing. But it can only see through the filter of what it already knows.Sun, 20 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2017/supergan/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2017/supergan/Super high resolution images (268 Megapixel, 16384 x 16384) generated by two custom artificial neural networks, recursively upscaling itself. Due to the recursive nature of the algorithm, the higher resolution images start producing fractal like effects. The titles are also generated by a third neurWed, 12 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2017/we-are-made-of-star-dust/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2017/we-are-made-of-star-dust/In this edition, this particular neural network is trained on thousands of images from the Hubble Space Telescope. On thousands of images from beyond our planet, from distance space, the cosmos, the fifth element, the aether, the home of God.Sun, 09 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2017/optimising-for-beauty/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2017/optimising-for-beauty/“Optimising for Beauty” at “Mind the Deep”, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai. Photo courtesy of Ming contemporary art Museum.Wed, 05 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2018/deep-meditations-a-brief-history/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2018/deep-meditations-a-brief-history/A multi-channel, one-hour film and large-scale video and sound installation, with shorter five-, two-, and one-minute versions.Mon, 30 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2018/deep-meditations/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2018/deep-meditations/A series of generative moving-image works exploring life, nature, the universe, and subjective experience through artificial neural networks.Mon, 30 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2018/grannma/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2018/grannma/Deep neural audio synthesis. The goal here is not to create sounds that are indistinguishable from the training data (i.e. capable of passing an ‘audio Turing test’), but to create sounds that are somehow reminiscent of the training data, but are also novel and un-human, yet still interesting, and –Sun, 06 May 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2018/biggan/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2018/biggan/A number of experiments in audio-reactive, automated – and controlled – traversal of the latent space of a large generative adversarial network (in this case, the model known as BigGAN by Google Deepmind). These videos use many different methods of navigating the latent space. Each video uses a diffThu, 29 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2018/mountains/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2018/mountains/A Learning to See study set to the opening verse of Barış Manço’s song ‘Dağlar Dağlar’.Sat, 24 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2018/nimiia-cetii/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2018/nimiia-cetii/Inspired by experiments in interspecies communication and aspiring to connect with a world beyond our consciousness, nimiia cétiï documents the interactions between a neural network, audio recordings of early Martian language, and footage of the movements of extremophilic bacteria. Here, the computeThu, 13 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2018/deep-meditations-snapshots-across-time/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2018/deep-meditations-snapshots-across-time/Snapshots across time from Deep Meditations.Mon, 30 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2018/tomorrow/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2018/tomorrow/A short film about darkness and hope. Arguably the world’s first film constructed in and told entirely through the latent space of a Deep Neural Network, with meaningful human control over narrative.Sun, 25 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2018/ultrachunk/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2018/ultrachunk/This work continues my research into large artificial neural networks as systems for real-time, expressive human-computer interaction, framing them as new kinds of instruments that can emerge through meaningful human control.Thu, 29 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2019/epicganguy/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2019/epicganguy/On a side note, of all the different things and scenery that NVidia could have chosen to demo their award winning incredible ‘Gaugan‘ (2019) with, their first choice, and cover image is a rocky seascapeWed, 04 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2019/itau-cultural/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2019/itau-cultural/‘Cybernetic Consciousness,’ Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil, 2019.Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2019/kennin-ji/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2019/kennin-ji/Kennin-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan, 2019.Sun, 17 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2019/me-by-melia/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2019/me-by-melia/ME by Melia Atrium, London, UK, as part of Sonar+D London, 2019.Wed, 01 May 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2019/morphosis/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2019/morphosis/A collaboration between visual artist Memo Akten and electronic musician Max Cooper, created as part of Cooper’s Yearning for the infinite audio-visual performance at the Barbican in London (2019).Sun, 29 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2019/nft/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2019/nft/I create NFTs exclusively on energy efficient and ‘eco-friendly’ blockchains such as those using a Proof-of-Stake consensus algorithm. Colloquially known as #CleanNFTs, these require in order of millions times less energy \[1,2,3,4\] than the much more widespread (and more lucrative) Ethereum blockcTue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2019/sonar/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2019/sonar/Sonar+D, Barcelona, Spain, 2019.Mon, 22 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2019/we-are-all-connected/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2019/we-are-all-connected/Rebooting old works from 2007-2008: “One second before the big bang” x “String Theory”, porting to modern hardware.Sat, 20 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2019/superhuman-artificial-intelligence/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2019/superhuman-artificial-intelligence/Available as (Clean)NFTs at https://hic.link/memoaktenWed, 01 May 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2020/deep-meditations-abiogenesis/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2020/deep-meditations-abiogenesis/Part of the Deep Meditations (2018) series, Deep Meditations: Abiogenesis focuses on the emergence of life, and the evolution of single and multicellular organisms. Created used Deep Learning and artificial neural networks trained on thousands of microscopic images.Wed, 22 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2020/honor-fraser/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2020/honor-fraser/‘Thin as Thorns, In These Thoughts in Us: An Exhibition of Creative AI and Generative Art,’ Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, 2020.Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2020/true-colors/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2020/true-colors/Made for #ValentinesDay2020.Sat, 15 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2020/stayhomesavelives/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2020/stayhomesavelives/I’d been thinking about ways of impactfully communicating exponential growth for quite some time (mostly related to emissions, waste, population growth x limited resources). And seeing large groups of people still hanging around in parks, pubs, cafes etc during the covid19 pandemic (via videos onlinMon, 23 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2020/ucca/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2020/ucca/‘Immaterial/Re-material: A Brief History of Computing Art,’ UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2020.Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2021/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2021/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace/Also see All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace + Deeper Meditations #1-#6 (2021)Thu, 12 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2020/deep-meditations-we-are-all-connected-studies/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2020/deep-meditations-we-are-all-connected-studies/These are studies for an ongoing series of work. For more information on the series in general please see Deep Meditations (2018).Sat, 04 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2021/distributed-consciousness/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2021/distributed-consciousness/Drawing upon the collaborative nature of knowledge building, the collective nature of intelligence, and the permeable and dynamic boundaries between individuals, the piece employs cephalopods and cephalopod cognition as a means of reflecting upon the increasingly powerful and pervasive synthetic aliMon, 06 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2021/pixlflippr/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2021/pixlflippr/My first generative token on fxhash.Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2021/deeper-meditations/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2021/deeper-meditations/Also see All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace + Deeper Meditations #1-#6 (2021)Mon, 06 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2021/quantum-vacuum/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2021/quantum-vacuum/My second generative token on fxhash.Sat, 11 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2021/distributed-consciousness-nft/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2021/distributed-consciousness-nft/The original 2021 online release of Distributed Consciousness: 256 Tentacular Critters and their cryptographically hidden Verses.Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2022/a-strange-loop/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2022/a-strange-loop/My fifth generative token on fxhash. A collaboration with the insanely talented James Patterson aka Presstube.Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2022/autopoeisic-transmogrification/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2022/autopoeisic-transmogrification/The work is a direct continuation of (and both conceptually and technically very related to) Distributed Consciousness. I wrote about the conceptual motivations behind this work in depth here.Sun, 30 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2022/clab/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2022/clab/‘The Unrestricted Society,’ Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, 2022.Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2022/deep-life/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2022/deep-life/Speculative imaginings of semi-fictitious critters, co-created with AI/Deep Learning; celebrating the diversity & splendor of all weird creatures; so valuable & precious; intricate & integral to life & healthy rich ecosystems. Icons of our humble heroes.Sat, 01 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2022/sea-world-culture-arts/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2022/sea-world-culture-arts/‘Not About Money,’ Sea World Culture and Arts Center, Shenzhen, China, 2022.Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2022/sonar/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2022/sonar/SonarMàtica, Sónar+D, Barcelona, Spain, 2022.Thu, 16 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2022/strata/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2022/strata/My fourth generative token on fxhash.Mon, 16 May 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2022/waves-serenity/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2022/waves-serenity/My third generative token on fxhash.Mon, 10 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2023/acmi/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2023/acmi/ACMI, Melbourne, Australia, 2023–2024.Thu, 15 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2023/artscience/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2023/artscience/‘Notes from the Ether,’ ArtScience Museum, Singapore, 2023.Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2024/gallery-qi/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2024/gallery-qi/Gallery QI, Qualcomm Institute, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 2024.Thu, 25 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2023/waves-2-0-terra/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2023/waves-2-0-terra/Made using custom code, computational simulation technologies and artificial intelligence, “WAVES” is a series of works started in 2014, that draws upon the well established history of both artistic and scientific study on oceans and oceanic waves.Wed, 07 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2024/layers-of-perception/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2024/layers-of-perception/Continuing from my 2017 “Learning to see” series, Layers of perception continues my exploration into using state-of-the-art Machine Learning (AI) technologies to investigate human perception, and more broadly speaking, our self affirming cognitive biases, our inability to see the world from others’ Sat, 10 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2002/i-cant-wait-to-grow-up/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2002/i-cant-wait-to-grow-up/A dynamic poem about the naive optimism of youth.Fri, 29 Mar 2002 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2019/barbican/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2019/barbican/Learning to See (Interactive) and Gloomy Sunday at AI: More than Human, Barbican Centre, London, UK, 2019.Thu, 16 May 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2012/mclaren/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2012/mclaren/In collaboration with James Medcraft, we designed, directed and developed the video for McLaren’s P1 launch. A stop-motion, long exposure photography light painting animation, driven by real-life wind tunnel data and two motion control rigs (all visuals done in camera). Exploring ways of ‘3d printinFri, 20 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2024/taikang-learning-to-see/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2024/taikang-learning-to-see/Learning to See (Interactive) at Creative Machines, Taikang Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2024.Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2011/shm-5/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2011/shm-5/1ch 8K (or 4ch HD) 60fps video, 2ch sound Duration: 04:46 seamless loop Dimensions (variable): e.g. \[3.55m x 0.5m\]-\[10m x 1.40m\]Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2013/shm-8-9/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2013/shm-8-9/1ch HD video, 2ch sound Duration: SHM #8- 02:00 seamless loop, SHM #9- 01:40 seamless loop Dimensions: variableSun, 29 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2014/shm-blenheim/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2014/shm-blenheim/Kinetic light & sound installation at Blenheim Palace, UK, 2014. Commissioned by Blenheim Art Foundation.Mon, 29 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2015/shm-rncm/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2015/shm-rncm/The version highlighted here, SHM #12 for 16 percussionists (2015), builds on this theme to explore the complex relations between human and machine; navigating the harmonies and tensions between science, technology, culture, ethics and tradition. Mirroring the tensions created when new scientific knThu, 05 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2019/shm-signal/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2019/shm-signal/Kinetic light & sound installation at Signal Festival, Czech Museum of Music, Prague, CZ, 2019.Mon, 30 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2019/shm/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2019/shm/“The Awesome Machinery Of Nature: We are all connected” is an abstract film, a Speculative Simulation and Computational Composition that celebrates the interconnectedness of all living and non-living things across many scales of time and space – from the interactions of sub-atomic particles and osciFri, 15 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.memo.tv/projects/2021/awesome-machinery/https://www.memo.tv/projects/2021/awesome-machinery/“The Awesome Machinery Of Nature: We are all connected” is an abstract film, a Speculative Simulation and Computational Composition that celebrates the interconnectedness of all living and non-living things across many scales of time and space – from the interactions of sub-atomic particles and osciFri, 04 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT