The Mega Super Awesome Visuals Company
A 16m tall digital, interactive waterfall.
Projection mapping a living room with camera tracking, dynamic perspective and live puppetry.
Visuals for Lenny Kravitz’s Black and White World Tour.
Ongoing research and series of projects exploring the nature of complex patterns created from the interaction of multilayered rhythms.
Stage direction and visuals for The Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors’ Showcase at the Cannes Lions Festival 2011.
Micro-projection mapping a series of mobile phones with moving sweet-spot.
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.
Chinese Robe designer application to accompany the V&A’s digital activities.
A permanent installation of 8 dynamic video artworks in the lobby of Deutsche Bank Hong Kong
An interactive architectural projection mapping game for Google Chrome.
I worked with the Found Collective on this Wombats music video. I designed and developed software (using C++ / openframeworks) [...]
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”.
MSA Visuals’ Memo Akten was commissioned by Modular to create interactive visuals for the UK School Games 2010opening ceremony at Gateshead stadium [...]
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.
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.
An interactive installation at Future Gallery, Leicester Sq, London, UK curated by Grok Institute and commissioned by Courvoisier. The installation employs our developing relationship [...]
A workshop / residency at the Mapping festival 2010, Geneva, Switzerland. Many collaborators, artists, musicians, performers, visualists took over various [...]
The Touch Trust Team, led by Dilys Price, OBE and Charlotte Aubrey, will host the first OpenFrameworks-ReacTickles design lab to be [...]
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
MSA Visuals produced and directed the visuals for the west-end street dance show Blaze, directed by Anthony Van Laast (Mamma [...]
For the Grammy awards 2010, musician & artist Imogen Heap wanted a dress that would display the tweets and photos coming [...]
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.
Interactive realtime visuals for OK Go @ Design Miami 2009, tracking lasers mounted on custom guitars designed by Moritz Waldemeyer [...]
A music video I recently produced graphics for has just been released – for the Depeche Mode single “Fragile Tension”, [...]
An interactive installation which explores our obsession with super-stardom, and the extravagance that accompanies it.
ofxMSAPhysics is an opensource, C++ 3D particle/constraint based physics library for openFrameworks 006+ and Cinder. It uses a very similar api to [...]
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
“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.
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 [...]
An opensource cross platform, C++ UDP-TCP Bridge.
Designed and developed this interactive gestural experience for Toyota / Seeper / Brandwidth to promote the launch of their Toyota [...]
My Secret Heart is a music and film installation & performance commissioned by Streetwise Opera with music composed by Mira Calixand sound [...]
Working with Arnold Agency and Todd Vanderlin+Ryan Habbyshaw from their R&D team, we created an interactive display for Citizens bank in branches [...]
“Roots” is an interactive musical/visual installation for the Brick Table tangible and multi-touch interface, where multiple people can collaborate in [...]
“Pi” is an interactive audio/visual installation commissioned by Trash City of the Glastonbury Festival to be shown at the festival [...]
A test in motion detection in Quartz Composer 3.0. The music is all generated in real-time by me waving my [...]
An experiment in audio reactive organisms.
A dynamic poem about the naive optimism of youth.
The origins of my infamous pixelated face avatar.
