İrem Çoban is an Istanbul-based media artist, experimental filmmaker, and academic. She is an Assistant Professor at Istanbul Bilgi University. Her works have been showcased internationally in countries including the USA, Japan, the UK, Italy, Spain, Greece, Canada, Germany, China, and South Korea. In 2020, her work received international recognition. She received the Best Technical Practice Award at the Art Woman 2020 Geo-Graphies Exhibition in Lecce, Italy, for her video piece “Tell me my future.”
Her filmography includes short and medium-length films that have been finalists and official selections at international festivals: Hear (2019), exploring the theme of child marriage; The Last Performance (2021), which addresses women’s prejudices from a feminist perspective; MYth (2025), an experimental poetic film and Essence (2025) Experimental Short Film (AI-based production).
Çoban’s artistic practice merges new media technologies with alternative narrative forms. She works across video collage, digital storytelling, and experimental filmmaking, incorporating advanced technologies such as augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), 3D/2D modeling, and the metaverse into her practice.
In 2021, during her residency at the London-based Agora Digital Art Residency, she produced the Women in Proverbs series, which was exhibited in a VR environment designed by Metaxu Studio. In 2022, she was invited as an artist to the IMMENSIVA Program at Espronceda Institute of Art & Culture in Barcelona. That same year, her digital modeling piece The Holy Fetus Temple was selected for the 18th Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF | FutuRetro, Online Edition). Her works have also been exhibited at the world’s first NFT Biennial.
She has been a speaker at art and technology platforms such as AWE XR, Crypto Female, Türkiye Innovation Week, and the Istanbul Digital Art Festival, as well as on TRT2, a national broadcast channel of Türkiye. Additionally, In May 2023, she led Gravity Sketch workshops as a visiting professor at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, Poland, and served as the artistic coordinator and workshop mentor at the META SPARK HACKATHON at Facebook Maslak Station.
Her digital art collections Chasing the Hidden, Spiritual Purification, and Unbound Selves are featured on the London-based Sedition Art Platform.
İrem is co-founder of capitArtX , a women-led initiative for digital art curatorship and research, currently active in London, Istanbul, and Dubai.
Awards
2025 MYth – Lumina Festival – Best Feature Experimental Film Award
2020 Art Woman 2020 Geo-Graphies Primo Piano LivinGallery Lecce İtaly
Best Technical Application & Silver Certificate Award.
2020 Shenema International Short Film Project Competition
Doctoral Thesis Research Scholarship Project Award on Women.
2020 1. Rotary 2420. Bölge Örsçelik Balkan Short Film Competition
Professional Category, (Producer) Third.