Vladimir Grankovsky
Photographer, neuroscientist, media artist, and PhD researcher in computer science. Vladimir Grankovsky approaches the world as something to be reconfigured — pushing perception until it bends, breaks, and reforms. His work spans brain-computer interfaces, experimental optics, and embodied systems, all driven by a simple but disorienting premise: what if perception is far less fixed than we think? He is also the artist behind CAPTCHA — a sarcastic humanoid robot that has been quietly harassing people around the world since 2023. There are artists who arrive from design, code, sculpture, or sound. Vlad arrives from somewhere more elusive: the inside of perception itself. His practice consistently probes the same set of questions: How rigid is human perception? What happens to the self when sensory inputs shift? And what can machines reveal about consciousness — not just technically, but experientially?