Atay Ilgun is a London-based artist, curator, and creative technologist working across AI, blockchain, and experimental media. His practice considers how emerging technologies reshape myth, identity, and perception, drawing on cyber-folklore, machinic poetics, and reality systems. Ilgun's Realiti (2019), one of the earliest AI artworks minted on Ethereum, was included in Sotheby's Contemporary Discoveries and is documented in The Definitive Timeline of Early NFTs on Ethereum. Since 2020 he has curated at IKLECTIK in London. He has been supported by the British Council, presented work at CVPR and the NFT Biennial, and collaborated with DAOs. He has spoken at Sonar+D, Creative AI London, and UAL's Creative Computing Institute. His work has been covered by The Wire, Crack, FACT, CLOT, Resonance FM, MTV, and the BBC. Alongside his visual practice, Ilgun is a musician and a SHAPE Platform alumnus (Creative Europe). His album EUPHORIA was released by Most Dismal Swamp in 2023, followed by a live album recorded at Cafe OTO. In 2026 he founded soft world, a digital art studio focused on protocol art.