Katie Hofstadter & Memo Akten^US

Memo Akten & Katie Hofstadter are California-based interdisciplinary artists and researchers whose work investigates the entanglements of technology, embodiment, consciousness, and culture. Drawing from backgrounds spanning dance, writing, poetry, sculpture, computer science, artificial intelligence, and public practice, they create speculative simulations, data dramatizations, immersive installations, and narrative experiments that probe the human condition in an age of artificial intelligence and accelerating transformation.

Memo Akten is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and computer scientist working with emerging technologies as both creative medium, and as subject of critical inquiry. Katie Hofstadter is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and curator whose work investigates the complex relationships between embodiment, consciousness, and technologically mediated imagination. Together they operate the Superradiance Center for Entangled Intelligence and Planetary Consciousness, an interdisciplinary research lab investigating the nature of minds, intelligence, and planetary systems through research-based art that bridges embodied experience with emerging technologies. Their collaborative practice brings together ancient biotechnologies such as poetry, dance, and ritual with artificial intelligence, simulations, and real-time generative systems drawing on research from cognitive neuroscience, ecology, fundamental physics, and philosophy. At the heart of their work is a central question: it is one thing to intellectually know that we are deeply entangled within complex, interdependent networks of life, but how can we feel it in our bodies?

Their work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Tribeca Film Festival, British Film Festival, Gray Area, and Jacob's Pillow, and is held in the Artport collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art.