Atif Akin

Atif Akin (b. 1979, Turkey) is an artist living and working in New York. His work focuses on technoscientific criticism within the contexts of contemporary art, science, and politics. Integrating technology as both subject and means of expression, Akın explores issues that are considered sensitive in the public discourse, unlocking them from the rigid political categories in which they reside.

For more than a decade he pursued Mutant Space and Mutant Time, long-term, techno-scientifically critical research-driven art projects centered around nuclear mobility, radiation, geology, and archaeology. His body of work has been exhibited globally in museums, biennials and universities.

Akin is commissioned for large-scale, public-space installations in urban, and post-industrial sites where he displayed site-specific artwork that has scientific significance and at architectural scale.

Akin studied science and design at a public university in Turkey, Middle East Technical University in Ankara, and worked in İstanbul as an artist and educator before moving to New York in 2011. He is an Associate Professor of Art & Design at Rutgers University – New Brunswick in 2016 and he is an advisor to the Center for Cultural Analysis and Critical AI Initiative of the same university.