Artist, Designer, Visualist, Engineer
London, United Kingdom
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- Founder at The Mega Super Awesome Visuals Company
- Past
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- Motion Designer / Flash Developer at Fortune Cookie
- Design and Technology Manager at Deibus Studios
- Microsoft Certified Solution Developer at Bilginc IT Consultancy
- Education
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- Cavendish College
- Bogaziçi Üniversitesi
- Robert College
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Mehmet Akten’s Summary
At the intersection of technology, art and design, Mehmet Akten’s work focuses on creating emotional and memorable experiences. He designs and develops tools to explore new forms of interaction and pursue natural approaches to artistic expression via the digital domain. His work ranges from large-scale interactive installations and performances to online works and mobile applications.
Recently he has exhibited installations and performances at the Victoria & Albert Musuem, Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Manchester Bridgewater Hall, Ars Electronica and the Glastonbury Festival amongst others; and has worked with organizations such as Onedotzero, Aldeburgh Music, BBC Philharmonic, The Rambert Dance Company, Streetwise Opera as well as brands such as Adidas, Apple, Rolls-Royce, Texas Instruments and Toyota. Also an open-source advocate, a lot of his source-code and experiments are documented on his blog www.memo.tv.
Memo was born and grew up in Istanbul, Turkey. Fascinated by the hacker demo-scene of the 80s, he started programming music & graphics demos at an early age on the 8-bit computers of the era. In 1997, after completing a BSc in Engineering, he moved to London where he worked in the video games industry as a designer+artist+programmer. Leaving the industry in 2003 to pursue more immersive experiences, he founded the London based studio MSA Visuals - the Mega Super Awesome Visuals Company - where he balances his time between personal work, collaborations, research and commercial projects with international brands.
Mehmet Akten’s Specialties:
design & development - concept, visual, audio, motion, interaction.
Mehmet Akten’s Experience
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Founder
The Mega Super Awesome Visuals Company
(Motion Pictures and Film industry)
May 2003 — Present (6 years 8 months)
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Motion Designer / Flash Developer
Fortune Cookie
(Internet industry)
October 2007 — May 2008 (8 months)
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Design and Technology Manager
Deibus Studios
(Computer Games industry)
October 1998 — May 2003 (4 years 8 months)
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Microsoft Certified Solution Developer
Bilginc IT Consultancy
(Information Technology and Services industry)
March 1995 — August 1997 (2 years 6 months)
Mehmet Akten’s Education
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Cavendish College
Diploma , Computer Animation , 1997 — 1998
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Bogaziçi Üniversitesi
B.Sc , Civil Engineering , 1992 — 1997
2nd Award in final project "Automation of Reinforced Concrete Frame Structures"
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Robert College
High School , 1986 — 1992
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Mehmet Akten’s Interests:
Audio visual arts, moving images, motion pictures, music promos, piano, guitar, analog synths, music ranging from abstract ambient to lazy lounge to manic metal, realtime 3D, anime, south park, hong kong cinema, japanese cinema, martial arts, gadgets / PDAs / GPS / high-speed mobile broadband / cutting edge technology / boys toys etc, paragliding, scuba-diving.
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