About / Independent practice
Kıvanç Aykan
Kıvanç Aykan creates art and immersive experiences at the intersection of science, technology and performance.
Working independently, he places interactive design at the centre of his practice, bringing inanimate objects to life and exploring how they connect with people. His work blurs the boundaries between the physical and the digital, inviting audiences to experience their surroundings in new ways.
With a background in Visual Communication Design, he has contributed to multidisciplinary art and installation projects in Turkey and internationally, including Hong Kong, Scotland and the United States.
Rooted in nightclub culture, music studios and performance art, Aykan’s practice is driven by a passion for creating stage experiences for musicians and performers across disciplines. For him, live performance is also a space for experimentation, where emerging technologies meet ambitious creative ideas.
Following his studies in Visual Communication Design, he worked across a range of disciplines before joining a team developing art projects that combined science and technology. Through these collaborations, he had the opportunity to develop concepts and lead the design of projects presented to audiences beyond Turkey.
His installations transform spaces through their existing architecture and landscape. Combining real-time software, projection mapping, synchronised effects, lighting, moving image and music, he creates environments that immerse participants in a different sensory experience.
His experience spans large-scale architectural and dome projections, real-time face and costume mapping, stereoscopic audiovisual performances, and virtual reality content. He has also led concept development and design for digital immersive experiences and narrative installations.
Alongside his artistic work, Aykan explores how new technologies and ideas can shape brand experiences. He approaches product launches as opportunities to communicate a company’s values, philosophy and the essence of its products through experiences that go beyond a presentation of features.
Today, his independent practice centres on interaction: animating objects, connecting them with people, and using virtual technologies to expand perception. Seeing his work reach audiences of tens of thousands, and watching audiovisual performance evolve into new forms, continue to motivate his practice.
Dance as an optical illusion. Poetry as an abstract composition in 3D mapping. Music as a holographic projection. Aykan seeks to challenge the apparent limits of the physical world, invent new technological approaches, and translate familiar stories into the language of multimedia.
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