The Mega Super Awesome Visuals Company

The work of Memo Akten & Collaborators

This site is dedicated to my commercial work. For personal projects, artworks, research and collaborations please visit www.memo.tv.

Selected works

2012 Forms

“Forms” is a series of studies on human motion, and its reverberations through space and time.

2011 Cascada

A 16m tall digital, interactive waterfall.

2011 Sony PlayStation3 Video Store

Projection mapping a living room with camera tracking, dynamic perspective and live puppetry.

2011 Lenny Kravitz Black and White World Tour

Visuals for Lenny Kravitz’s Black and White World Tour.

2011 Simple Harmonic Motion #5

Ongoing research and series of projects exploring the nature of complex patterns created from the interaction of multilayered rhythms.

2011 Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors’ Showcase

Stage direction and visuals for The Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors’ Showcase at the Cannes Lions Festival 2011.

2011 POST Gravity

POST Gravity follows its critically acclaimed launch issue with Gravity, an extra-terrestrial exploration of the ways in which humanity has [...]

2011 Vodafone “The Evolution of Mobile”

Micro-projection mapping a series of mobile phones with moving sweet-spot.

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.

2011 V&A “The Emperor’s New Robes”

Chinese Robe designer application to accompany the V&A’s digital activities.

2010 Deutsche Bank Hong Kong

A permanent installation of 8 dynamic video artworks in the lobby of Deutsche Bank Hong Kong

2010 Google Chrome Interactive Building Projections

An interactive architectural projection mapping game for Google Chrome.

2010 Wombats ‘Techno Fan’

I worked with the Found Collective on this Wombats music video. I designed and developed software (using C++ / openframeworks) [...]

2010 Cosmic Sensation

Cosmic Sensation is a project born out of an idea by Physics Professor Sijbrand de Jong, formerly at CERN, and currently Director of the Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics at Radboud University Nijmegen; his idea was to “Use cosmic rays to make music”.

2010 “Waves” UK School Games

MSA Visuals’ Memo Akten was commissioned by Modular to create interactive visuals for the UK School Games 2010opening ceremony at Gateshead stadium [...]

2010 Webcam Piano 2.0

An ongoing project researching interpretation of movement into sound, primarily classical influenced (though not necessarily western), traditional sounding music as opposed to abstract electronic audio or soundscapes.

2010 Science Museum “Who am I?”

MSA Visuals was commissioned by All of Us to provide consultancy on the design and development of new exhibitions for the Science Museum’s relaunch of their “Who Am I?” gallery, as well as taking on the role of designing and developing one of the installations.

2010 Future Menagerie

An interactive installation at Future Gallery, Leicester Sq, London, UK curated by Grok Institute and commissioned by Courvoisier. The installation employs our developing relationship [...]

2010 Metamapping

A workshop / residency at the Mapping festival 2010, Geneva, Switzerland. Many collaborators, artists, musicians, performers, visualists took over various [...]

2010 Co-Creating Tools for Touch for children affected by Autism Spectrum Conditions

The Touch Trust Team, led by Dilys Price, OBE and Charlotte Aubrey, will host the first OpenFrameworks-ReacTickles design lab to be [...]

2010 Mika Arena Tour Visuals

Working with flat-e, MSA Visuals co-directed and co-produced the visuals for international popstar Mika’s 2010 Arena Tour. Photo by Francesco Castaldo

2010 Blaze – The Streetdance Show

MSA Visuals produced and directed the visuals for the west-end street dance show Blaze, directed by Anthony Van Laast (Mamma [...]

2010 Imogen Heap Grammys Twitter Dress

For the Grammy awards 2010, musician & artist Imogen Heap wanted a dress that would display the tweets and photos coming [...]

2009 Opensource OKGo ‘wtf’ effect in processing

Inspired by the brilliant use of an age old concept in the recent OKGo ‘WTF’ video (which in turn was inspired by this photo by Thomas Eakins), I created this little open-source demo in processing. It works in real-time with a webcam.

2009 OK Go, Fendi, Design Miami Laser Show

Interactive realtime visuals for OK Go @ Design Miami 2009, tracking lasers mounted on custom guitars designed by Moritz Waldemeyer [...]

2009 Zoetrope for iPhone/iPad

The Zoetrope is one of the earliest devices which created the illusion of animation via cycling through a series of [...]

2009 Depeche Mode ‘Fragile Tension’

A music video I recently produced graphics for has just been released – for the Depeche Mode single “Fragile Tension”, [...]

2009 Gold

An interactive installation which explores our obsession with super-stardom, and the extravagance that accompanies it.

2009 MSAPhysics

ofxMSAPhysics is an opensource, C++ 3D particle/constraint based physics library for openFrameworks 006+ and Cinder. It uses a very similar api to [...]

2009 iScream for iPhone

The quickest game I’ve ever developed on any platform Born out of frustration from trying to organize my iphone desktop. [...]

2009 MSARemote for iPhone

MSA Remote is a remote control application for iPhone & iPod Touch that sends OSC messages over the wifi network. [...]

2009 MSAFluid

An opensource library for solving and displaying real-time fluid simulations based on Navier-Stokes equations and Jos Stam’s paper Real-Time Fluid Dynamics for Games

2009 Body Paint

“Body paint” by Mehmet Akten is an interactive installation – a visual instrument – allowing users to paint on a virtual canvas with their body, interpreting movement, gestures and dance into evolving compositions.

2009 Meshmerizer for iPhone/iPad

An interactive, generative, audio-reactive visualization app for the iPhone and iPod Touch (what a mouthful!)

2009 Gold Dust for iPhone

Version 1.1 is now in the appStore. New version brings serious optimizations thus max amount of dust is now tripled. [...]

2009 Jackson Pollock by Miltos Manetas for iPhone/iPad

148apps.com – 4/5 stars.“You will find yourself showing people this application …and then, not getting your iPhone back because they [...]

2009 Reincarnation

Directed by, visuals and programming by Memo Akten Choreography by Alexander Whitley Dancers Robin Gladwin and Miguel Altunaga “Reincarnation” is an off-shoot film born while [...]

2009 UDP TCP Bridge

An opensource cross platform, C++ UDP-TCP Bridge.

2008 Toyota IQ Interactive Stand

Designed and developed this interactive gestural experience for Toyota / Seeper / Brandwidth to promote the launch of their Toyota [...]

2008 My Secret Heart

My Secret Heart is a music and film installation & performance commissioned by Streetwise Opera with music composed by Mira Calixand sound [...]

2008 MSA QT Player – Fullscreen Quicktime player across multiple video-outs

MSAQTPlayer is a Mega Super Awesome (& mega super basic), fullscreen / multiple output Quicktime player with fast, greater-than-4096-pixels support.

2008 Citizens Bank Interactive Windows

Working with Arnold Agency and Todd Vanderlin+Ryan Habbyshaw from their R&D team, we created an interactive display for Citizens bank in branches [...]

2008 Roots

“Roots” is an interactive musical/visual installation for the Brick Table tangible and multi-touch interface, where multiple people can collaborate in [...]

2008 Glastonbury Pi

“Pi” is an interactive audio/visual installation commissioned by Trash City of the Glastonbury Festival to be shown at the festival [...]

2008 Webcam Piano

A test in motion detection in Quartz Composer 3.0. The music is all generated in real-time by me waving my [...]

2007 Amoeba Dance

An experiment in audio reactive organisms.

2003 I can’t wait to grow up

A dynamic poem about the naive optimism of youth.

2003 abstractshit.com

A satire on early 2000′s full-flash portfolio sites.