ILDAR IAKUBOV

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Ildar Iakubov (b. 1989, Leningrad) is an artist, curator, and educator, whose work revolves around designing and implementing new modes of digital culture production, consumption, and governance. With an academic background in both mathematics and arts, Iakubov actively uses technology such as programming, DIY circuitry, and VR in his art projects.

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Propaganda VHQ explores emancipated propaganda (clean from any exploitation, having no motivation embedded), speculating whether it could take the audience to some specific states of deep self-reflection

Best Memories Revised attempts to address the notorious obsession to capture and share our life moments, at the cost of missing out on the actual experience

Berloga (“Den”) is an immersive audiovisual piece created for the very specific Cubus setup at ZKM Karlsruhe, in collaboration with composer Dmitry Mazurov

Episode is a curatorial project dedicated to popularisation of new media art in Iakubov’s home city of Saint Petersburg by bringing the emerging artists on one stage with international well-established artists and running educational programmes

EOLA, Ars Electronica 2020. Created by an interdisciplinary team of artists through different machine learning algorithms, this experimental opera tells a story of an intelligent machine that becomes sentient

The Virtual Reality Van was a mobile discussion platform that existed in both physical and virtual space. The core activity of the VR Van were Global Friendship Workshops—speculative discussions aimed to envision future's common sense using VR technologies

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