Superradiance is a multiscreen video and sound installation, film and performance by Memo Akten and Katie Peyton Hofstadter exploring embodiment, technology, and planetary consciousness. It invites the viewer to extend their bodily perception beyond the skin and into the living environment.

The work combines poetry, dance, and insights from neuroscience, woven together with code, simulations, and generative AI to evoke a visceral, intimate connection to the living planet. Chapter 1 - Embodied Simulation meditates on the idea of the 'body' and the 'self' as a transient assembly of cells, micro-organisms, and cosmic matter, temporarily organized to give rise to what we perceive as a body and a self. Framing dance as an ancient biotechnology—a primal, unifying act that connects individuals to each other and to the living world—the piece leverages the cognitive phenomena of embodied simulation to reflect on bodies as sites of exchange and transformation, and embrace the paradox of feeling like an individual, intelligent being, while being composed of trillions of other living, intelligent beings.

https://superradiance.art/

Tribeca Film Festival, Official Selection – Immersive at Tribeca Film Festival, New York, USA, Jun 6 - Jul 29, 2024

Getty PST Art: Embodied Pacific, UC San Diego Visual Arts & Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, US, Oct 2024 - Oct 2025

BFI London Film Festival, London, UK, Oct 10 - 21, 2024

Digital Body Festival, London, UK, Nov 15 - 17, 2024

Taikang Art Museum, Beijing, China, Nov 15 2024 - Apr 2025

UnFold-X Live Performance, Seoul, South Korea, Nov 7, 2024

HOPE Alkazar, Istanbul, Turkey, Mar 21 - May 4, 2025

Athens Digital Arts Festival, "Simulacra", Athens, Greece, Apr 3 - 7, 2025

Ctrl Gallery LA, 945 Chung King Rd, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Ma 29 - May 3, 2025

CVPR AI Art Gallery, Music City Center, Nashville TN, Jun 11 - 15, 2025

Jacob’s Pillow, Berkshires, MA, USA, Jul 6 - 13, 2025

Memo Akten & Katie Peyton Hofstadter are Southern California based interdisciplinary artists, researchers, and collaborators whose work investigates the entanglements of technology, consciousness, embodiment, and culture. Merging backgrounds in dance, writing, poetry, drawing, sculpture, computer science, artificial intelligence, computational art, 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, originally from Istanbul, Turkey, is an artist, musician, and researcher whose practice bridges machine learning, consciousness, perception, and spirituality. A pioneer in artistic explorations of Deep Neural Networks, he holds a PhD in this topic from Goldsmiths, University of London, and is Assistant Professor at UC San Diego. His works have been exhibited worldwide, from the Shanghai Ming Contemporary Art Museum, to the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, to the Grand Palais in Paris, the Venice Biennale, and he is also a recipient of the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica.

Katie Peyton Hofstadter is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and curator whose work investigates the complex relationships between embodiment, consciousness, and technologically mediated imagination. Her projects have been exhibited worldwide, and her writing appears in publications like Flash Art, BOMB, and The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. She is co-founder of global public art campaigns such as the ARORA network and the Climate Clock in NYC.

Together, their collaborative research and practice explore how emerging technologies— particularly AI and data systems—interact with the embodied, emotional, and ecological dimensions of human experience.