Ali Mahmut Demirel (b. 1972, Turkey) is a Berlin-based artist whose work traverses video, sound, and live performance. Trained in nuclear engineering and architecture, he began experimenting with video and sound in the early 1990s while working as a researcher at the Middle East Technical University Audio-Visual Systems Research Center, where he was also involved with the Körotonomedya and Magnetmus movements.

In the 2000s, Demirel turned his focus to real-time computer-generated imagery, developing interactive live audio-visual performances. He is widely recognized for his long-term collaboration with electronic music producer Richie Hawtin (aka Plastikman), where he explored abstract, minimal imagery in dialogue with sound.

From the 2010s onward, Demirel returned to video installation, producing the trilogy Post-Apocalyptic Utopias on Architecture, presented in his solo exhibition ISLE at Arter Istanbul in 2018. More recently, he has shifted toward lens-based works, drawing inspiration from nature—particularly rocks—as both material and muse. His ongoing long-term project Gods of Latmos is featured in the Türkiye Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.

Demirel’s work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the Guggenheim Museum (New York), Miraikan (Tokyo), Arter (Istanbul), ifa Galerie (Berlin), ICA (London), and Sammlung ESSL (Vienna), as well as in festivals such as CTM (Berlin), TodaysArt (The Hague), and the European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück).

As a live performer, he has appeared at venues and festivals worldwide, including the Nobel Prize Museum (Stockholm), Mutek (Tokyo, Montreal), Sonar Festival (Barcelona), Coachella (USA), Brixton Academy (London), L’Olympia (Paris), ADE (Amsterdam), Fuji Rock Festival (Japan), and the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, among many others.