Ivan Kirilenko (b. 1990, Russia)

is an artist creating immersive digital systems at the intersection of personal mythology and technological environment. The central question of his practice: what happens to a human when attention becomes a resource for external systems.

His practice is built on worldbuilding: inner states take the form of dynamic scenes inhabited by symbolic forces. These systems are alive — they evolve and reorganize in response to external signals: audience attention, sound, data streams. In many works attention acts as a critical force: distraction introduces decay and entropy, while focus restores the system. Each encounter produces a new state, making the work unstable and alive.

Kirilenko is the founder of Tyupism (stylized Tüpism) - an art movement born from a joke: the world is depicted the way computer vision sees it, as labeled rectangles on a black canvas, while the creative function is handed to the viewer, who interprets and completes the image. Its extension is Metatyupism: a personal symbolic language in which eight emotion glyphs are arranged along concentric orbits, forming a metaportrait — a map of a person's transformation from inner chaos toward harmony.

His tools include 3D scanning and particle clouds, custom shaders, game engines, AI vision, and generative sound. His visual DNA is black and gold, circles and orbits - metaportraits read simultaneously as sacred ornament, icon, and printed circuit board.

Kirilenko's background in PR, advertising, and internet censorship shaped his critical view of perception as a contested space in the battle for attention. His art is a manifesto for reclaiming control over one's own perception. For him, an artwork is not an object but a system that exists only in the moment of interaction.