Haluk Akakçe

Haluk Akakçe (born 1970 in Turkey) is a contemporary artist living and working in New York whose work explores the intersections between society and technology through video animations, wall paintings and sound installations. He trained at the Royal College of Art in London. [cite news |title=Some bananas, a few needle jabs, and your art is pick of the bunch |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1043720.ece |work=The Times |date=2003-12-16 |accessdate=2008-05-25 ] Akakçe's work has appeared in the Istanbul [cite news |title=Alltagsdialoge auf der Brücke |url=http://www.taz.de/nc/1/archiv/archiv-start/?ressort=ku&dig=2002%2F03%2F15%2Fa0228&cHash=3ee6332953 |work=die tageszeitung |date=2002-03-15 |accessdate=2008-05-25 ] and San Paulo Biennials, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and the Walker Art Center. Among his numerous solo shows, Akakçe has exhibited at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York and the Berlin KunstWerke. He was shortlisted for the Beck's Futures award at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 2004. [cite news |title=Full steam ahead |url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,11710,1180733,00.html |work=The Guardian |date=2004-03-30 |accessdate=2008-05-25 ]

In November 2006, Haluk Akakçe's "The Sky is the Limit" animated the 12.5 million LEDs of the enormous Viva Vision canopy on Freemont Street in downtown Las Vegas, [cite news |title=THE WEEK AHEAD: Oct. 29 - Nov. 4; ART/ARCHITECTURE |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9501EFD8173FF93AA15753C1A9609C8B63 |work=The New York Times |date=2006-10-29 |accessdate=2008-05-25 ] a public art project in collaboration with Creative Time, the City of Las Vegas Arts Commission and the Freemont Street Experience. At 8 p.m. each evening that month, the entire street was plunged into darkness before Akakçe's animation began to trickle across the LED surface, gradually turning the canopy into a cascade of abstractions and colors.

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External links

* [http://www.cosmicgalerie.com/en/pages/artistes.php?name=halukakakce Cosmic Galerie, Paris]
* [http://www.deitch.com/artists/sub.php?artistId=9 Deitch Projects, New York]