Izak is a PhD Candidate at the University of Johannesburg working in VR to represent South Africa's lost heritage. He finished his masters of architecture (with distinction) in 2020. Since then he has been actively engaged in various research projects in XR as well as teaching architecture.

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He was a speaker at the Digital Utopias conference (2019) presenting his work on gaming and VR. He also contributed to ‘KoTA, Konnekting the Archive’ (2019) which is a history publication cited in the routledge handbook for architectural education (2021) and shortlisted for the Melbourne design week art book fair (2021).

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Izak has been using his his background in architecture to imagine new digital realities both for artists and commercial clients.