Mehmet Akten is a visual artist, musician and interaction designer with a focus on creating emotional and memorable experiences. Using programming as his primary artist’s tool, he develops technology to create new instruments, and explore alternative ways of performing visuals and sound. Strongly influenced by trying to understand the world around us - the mathematics and laws of nature, and how we interact with it - his fields of special interest are human-computer interaction, computer vision, generative algorithms, computational design combined with traditional music and visual design methodologies and narrative.