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Eyeo 2013 – Memo Akten from Eyeo Festival // INSTINT on Vimeo.

Memo Akten Bio

Memo Akten is a visual artist, director, musician, and engineer which is probably why I admire his work a lot. He takes many aspects of what he is passionate about and illustrates it through his work. He has been involved in the video game industry as well as the music industry. One thing that shows how his wide variety of talents can combine together, is demonstrated by one of his projects called the Webcam Piano 2.0. In his lecture he talks about this project and if you look at it and listen, the Webcam piano really resembles a mixture of a video game and a music performance. He was born in Instanbul Turkey and has lived in London as well. Being in these different places surely shaped part of who he is today. I have a lot of family in England, and I have been there as well and I can tell you that it is a very artistic and expressive place. In his lecture he always tries to bring in his viewers by explaining each project in depth and you can see in his eyes how important these things are to him. He describes himself as someone who wants to illustrate Poetry of Reality and cross back and forth from reality and the digital. Memo takes different projects from other people whether it be musical or other, and recreates it digitally. This can be shown by his Simple Harmonic Function project. His background of being a civil engineer really allows him to tie together his artistic side with his digital experience. He has been involved in many other projects that I have not mentioned that are unparalleled by many projects I have seen from other artists. This is why I admire him. He strives to separate himself from the crowd to create his own brand and he loves doing it.