Emma Akmakdjian

Emma Akmakdjian is an interdisciplinary artist who translates climate data and system processes into interactive installations to dissolve barriers between nature and culture and contextualize the oceanic climate crisis as a sociological dilemma. Akmakdjian collaborates with scientists on projects that include workshops, interviews, and experiments, that demonstrate how subjective experience inspires people to interpret the material world differently. Her work focuses on marine ecology, taking inspiration from her experience as an AAUS scientific scuba diver.

Akmakdjian received her MFA in the Design | Media Arts program at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) with a certificate in Leaders of Sustainability. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI) and studied at L’Accademia di Belle Arti, Firenze, Italy.