Tracing the fragile links between ecological and cultural systems, the works of Vartan Markarian construct spaces where perception encounters the amorphous materiality of techno-landscapes, engaging with memory, transformation, destruction and healing through paintings, installations, immersive VR formats, and digital art. Since the outbreak of war in Ukraine in 2014, his work has focused toward a posthumanist reflection on conflict, migration, and ecological crisis. The full-scale invasion transformed his work into a means of recording a time suspended between loss and persistence, where existence oscillates between disappearance and defense.

Using photogrammetry to scan destroyed civilian structures and scorched military remnants in northern Ukraine, he contributed as a VR camera operator to Fresh Memories. The Look, an immersive film shown at international festivals including SXSW, DeadCenter, and SIGGRAPH. In 2025 he has turned toward the theme of recovery. Exploring museums as living archives in times of war and scanning burned forests to trace the slow renewal of life within the Anthropocene, these acts of digital preservation and poetic reconstruction ask how technology might hold space for both mourning and regeneration.