Ikuo Yamamoto
Director / AI Visual Artist | Represented in the U.S. by Smoke&Oakum\ \ Ikuo Yamamoto is a Tokyo-based director and AI visual artist represented in the U.S. by Smoke&Oakum. After nearly two decades of commercials and Japanese hip-hop music videos, he builds work like a mixtape, using generative tools to collage time, culture and references around memory, identity and transformation. His recent work was selected as an Official Nominee at OMNI festivals in Ningbo and Sydney, placed in the top 10 of the Best Short Drama category at SHAIKE Film Festival, and was a finalist in Solizone’s Techno-Vision in Milan. He was featured on the cover of Altered District Issue No. 2 with an in-depth interview, and his work was selected by the jury of creAtIva AI Art Book Vol. 9.\ \ Work & press: <https://linktr.ee/yamamotoikuo>\ Instagram: <https://www.instagram.com/directed.by.ikuo.yamamoto/>