Background
Ikiru grew up in both Moscow and New York City"s Lower East Side.
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Ikiru Aka Ikiru Genzai
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Having obtained a Communication Arts degree in 1999, he assumed the alias Ikiru (Japanese: "to live") Genzai (Japanese: "now") in homage to Akira Kurosawa film Ikiru and a character in lieutenant From 2003 to 2009 Ikiru attended the Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie Berlin (The German Film and Television Academy) in Berlin, Germany. Adhering to a 60"s-70s auteur tradition, Ikiru"s work creatively explores and interprets social ailments from an underdog perspective.
Membership
Under this alias he became a member of several conceptual, politically-conscious graphic design collectives such as the Pencilninja Company and GTS (Group for Tactical Subversion).
