Atıf Akın is an artist, curator, lecturer and designer. Studied Chemical Engineering in Middle East Technical University. Being more interested in visual arts and design he graduated swiftly with a research project on photo chemicals to start his Master's degree on design. In the meantime he contributed to online/offline many group shows. Recently he worked at Bilgi University and Kadir Has University in Istanbul. He taught various courses related to new media and interaction in the context of art and design. He coordinated the senior projects of Visual Communication Design Department of Istanbul Bilgi University and worked as the academic supervisor of the department and some international organizations. He is the founder and the organizer of PixelIST festival, dedicated to electronic arts and its subcultures, together with PixelACHE network. As an artist he produced videos, multimedia installations and photography projects along with publishing articles in various catalogs and periodicals. His work is listed in the ʻYounger Than Jesusʼ art directory project of New Museum, published by Phaidon. He also worked with xurban_collective at various international projects, namely, knit++, The Containment Contained, S.I.E.G.E.C.R.A.F.T, (non).monumental, A Clean Slate. He was one of the three co-curators of Uncharted: User Frames in Media Arts exhibition and the editor of the catalog. He worked as the manager of the Istanbul design office of frumatic and still consultant to the same new media agency. Currently he is teaching at Mason Gross School of the Arts Visual Arts Department of Rutgers University in New Jersey.