Richie Hawtin & Ali M. DemirelCA+TR
Richie Hawtin is a Canadian-raised electronic music artist and sake specialist. He is behind the techno labels Plus 8 and MINUS, and the ENTER. and OSC sake initiatives. And, of course, he is Plastikman, electronic musician par excellence, composer of seven landmark albums. Hawtin led the shift from physical to digital DJing and consistently pushes the art form forward through technological innovation and singular visual design. His critical acclaim spans the creative realm of the fine art community to the technological vanguard. The New York Times called him “one of electronic music’s intellectual forces.”
Hawtin is a fully trained sake sommelier and loves to bring music and sake culture closer together in Japan.
Ali Mahmut Demirel is a Berlin-based audiovisual artist with a background in nuclear engineering and architecture. He began creating video art in the early 1990s and later expanded into live audiovisual performance. He is known for his long-term collaboration with electronic music producer Richie Hawtin, aka Plastikman, exploring abstract, minimal imagery in close synchronization with sound.
After an extended engagement with generative imagery, Demirel shifted his practice toward lens-based work, drawing inspiration from nature—particularly rocks—as both material and conceptual anchor. His recent work intertwines ecology, landscape, and myth, constructing fictional and hypnotic visual narratives.
