Atay Ilgun

ARTIST & CURATOR WORKING AT THE INTERSECTION OF REALITY SYSTEMS, AI, CRYPTO & art-raves.

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FEATURES, EXHIBITIONS, COLLABORATIONS & MORE.


Beyond Quantum Music Festival | Contributing Artist
https://quantummusic.org/beyond-quantum-music/
Quantum Music was a groundbreaking Creative Europe project (2015–2018) that fused quantum physics and music through multimedia performances featuring hybrid instruments, original compositions, and educational visuals.

NFT Biennial, THE CATHARSIS OF A STRANGE PROPHECY| Exhibiting Artist
https://nftbiennial.com/
The first edition of the NFT Biennial in January-February 2023 showcased the works of more than 100 artists curated by 10 curators across 12 exhibitions, 10 global locations. Drawing over thousands of visitors and media outreach of over 6 million.

Exhibited the first set of works by the Artist minted on Tezos blockchain created after the OpenAI artist programme.

Google Arts & Culture, Angelystor | Designer & Publisher
https://artsandculture.google.com/story/IQVxfkm7yVDIIA
An exhibition of contemporary approaches to graphic scores to mark the 50th Anniversary of the British Music Collection. Curated by Jacob Thompson-Bell.


The Production of Post-Truth | Exhibiting Artist
https://uglyduck.org.uk/event/fetchish/

An exhibition employing a disruptive chronology, including a variety of works that; challenge the authority of analogue mass-media mechanisms, analyse the impact of communication technologies, reconsider the role of archival practices and construct speculative and dystopian realities. 

XLR8R | Cover Design & NFT Commission
https://xlr8r.com/features/stl-enrica-falqui-dawn-razor-nemo-vachez-deliver-club-ready-xlr8r034/
Following a sold-out collection from XLR8R, an edition-of-one under ecolagbohrsac2021, and available as NFT alongside the monthly edition of this legendary media outlet.

⋆ POETIC {AI} | Lead AI Researcher & Artist
https://ouchhh.tv/POETIC-AI-Exhibition-Paris
“Poetic AI” by Ouchhh is an immersive solo exhibition that premiered at Atelier des Lumières in Paris, combining cutting-edge machine learning with artistic expression. Using over 20 million lines of scientific texts—including theories from renowned physicists and foundational AI research—the project reimagines light, space, and time as a poetic visual language.

DATAGATE | Lead AI Researcher & Artist
https://ouchhh.tv/DATAGATE
“DATAGATE” by Ouchhh is the world’s first permanent AI data sculpture based on NASA’s astronomical research, visualizing Kepler mission data in an immersive 360° LED form in Nanjing, China. Utilizing neural networks, GANs, and dimensionality reduction techniques, the project transforms complex datasets—such as exoplanet light curves—into poetic, ever-evolving visual and spatial experiences. It explores the aesthetics of machine learning in astronomy, turning scientific data into a monumental expression of human curiosity and interstellar imagination. Celebrated globally, it won awards for immersive and dynamic art across the U.S. and Asia.

Scraper by Most Dismal Swamp | Featured artist [Sculptures & UE5 work]
https://mostdismalswamp.com/Scraper
Scraper is a film about a moment in our platform-mediated discourse and its role as a socio-technical scaffold for collapse. What happens we begin to think, act, read, speak, commune like a scraper? There are many people who like to pontificate on and celebrate being ‘terminally online’ yet they tend to overlook the ‘terminal’ part. And Scraper intends to resolve this.

PAEAN by Miedo Total | Co-writer & producer

https://www.instagram.com/p/C-Si09Zo-NK/?img_index=1
This immersive theatre piece, staged inside a nightclub, explored the emotional aftermath of digital disconnection through the metaphor of a beloved MMORPG’s final server shutdown. Blurring the lines between live performance and virtual culture, it examined identity, community, and the fragility of reality in online spaces facing erasure. As players celebrated one last time in-game and IRL, the show captured the grief and beauty of endings in digital worlds.

Live at CAFE OTO | Artist

https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/englands-council-of-legislation-and-governing-body

Thrilled to present a re-interpreted set from ENGLAND’S COUNCIL OF LEGISLATION AND GOVERNING BODY OF HYPER REAL SIMULATIONS AND CONSTRUCTS – a.k.a ecolagbohrac2021 – who, across 25 breathless minutes, crafts a giddily frenetic, genre-phobic hyperreal space that feels both viscerally corporeal and expansively liminal all at once.

From start to finish, there’s a sense of relentlessly shifting ground, with fragments and snatches of different styles and sounds held briefly up to the light and then just as quickly whisked away in the dizzyingly forward momentum. This constant sense of ephemerality is not in any way unfocused though. This is a sound which seems to have a clear destination in mind at all times; there’s just an urgency in getting there which isn’t going to hang around for you to keep up.

The common thread across all these tracks is a level of joyful hyperactivity and information overload that’s as exhilarating and it is disorientating, leaving with you with the sense that you’ve passed through some sort of digital hailstorm, emerging battered and buffeted but galvanised at the same time. It’s a vital, cathartic journey.