Emi Kusano

Emi Kusano

Emi Kusano, a Tokyo-based multidisciplinary artist, creates hyper realistic representations of collective and individual memories using AI technology. Her work, gracing the cover of WWD Japan and featured in Christie’s and Gucci auctions, has been internationally exhibited at venues like the Saatchi Gallery, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, and Grand Palais Immersif. She is also known as a former creative director and co-founder of Japan’s first Web3 anime studio, “Shinsei Galverse”.

Artworks

Morphing Memory of Neural Fad

2023

Video

05’00”;05’31”

Morphing Memoryseries reimagines Tokyo street fashion history and analyzes the connection between AI and memory. Based on Kusano’s “Neural Fad” post-photography collection, this video series visualizes the youth’s nonexistent rebellious spirit and seamlessly transitions through eras. Detailed camera work and dynamic movement immerse viewers in digital scenes, accompanied by music that captures the unique atmosphere of fashion from different times.

Before the digital era, local magazines and TV were the catalysts for youth movements, shaping the Moga and Mobo of the 1940s to the Japanese hippies known as the Fūten Tribe, the Karasu Tribe of the 80s, and the Gyaru and Decora fashion of the late 90s and early 2000s. Amid today’s information overload and mass fashion consumption, this artwork attempts to reconsider AI’s role in reviving the history of street style once shaped by localized media.

＊DAFT x VolumDAO outdoor screening project