Haluk Akakçe

Haluk Akakçe (1970 – 9 October 2023) was a Turkish contemporary artist living and working in New York and Istanbul whose work explored the intersections between society and technology through video animations, wall paintings and sound installations.

He trained in architecture at Bilkent University, Ankara, then graduated with an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Among solo shows, Akakçe exhibited at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York and the Berlin KunstWerke.

[3] In November 2006, Akakçe's The Sky is the Limit animated the 12.5 million LEDs of the enormous Viva Vision canopy on Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas,[4] a public art project in collaboration with Creative Time, the City of Las Vegas Arts Commission and the Fremont 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.