EMI KUSANO

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EMI KUSANO: COGNITIVE CHAOS 9-22 APRIL 2024 NFT DROP: 11 APRIL 2024 | 6 PM CET SOLD OUT: <a href="https://opensea.io/collection/cognitive-chaos-by-emi-kusano">View on OpenSea</a>.
COGNITIVE CHAOS by the Japanese artist Emi Kusano is a series of 33 AI-generated images that venture into the nostalgia of a future once imagined, where brains are directly connected to devices—a concept familiar from science fiction but now echoing with new significance. As AI blurs the boundaries of truth, COGNITIVE CHAOS contemplates the resurgence of tangible sensations like texture and scent. It invites viewers to explore the balance between technology and the natural world, urging a rediscovery of our sensory experiences amidst the cognitive chaos.
Kusano encourages introspection on the interplay between our changing perceptions and the evolving digital landscape, advocating for a mindful engagement with the world around us. EXPANDED.ART | SHOWROOM Friedrichstraße 67, 10117 Berlin

EMI KUSANO | COGNITIVE CHAOS

Emi Kusano’s first job was taking fashion photos in the streets of Tokyo. She has always known that she was meant to be an artist, but she didn’t think she could make a living from it. Besides photography, she found other ways to be creative, such as playing in the band Satellite Young. Emi dressed up as an 80s idol and sang about technology. When Emi started working with AI, she understood that knowledge and taste are reflected in art more profoundly than ever before. She imagines fictional pasts and futures inspired by Japanese Futurism and subcultures, advocating for a mindful engagement with the world around us.

In conversation with Anika Meier, Emi Kusano discusses retrofuturism and nostalgia, street photography and AI, mass media and social media, feminism, and the digital art market.

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With COGNITIVE CHAOS, Emi Kusano ventures into the nostalgia of a future once imagined, where brains are directly connected to devices—a concept familiar from science fiction but now echoing with new significance.

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COGNITIVE CHAOS by the Japanese artist Emi Kusano is a series of 33 AI-generated images that venture into the nostalgia of a future once imagined, where brains are directly connected to devices—a concept familiar from science fiction but now echoing with new significance.
COGNITIVE CHAOS juxtaposes Japan’s 1970s obsession with the supernatural—UFOs, ghosts, and psychics—with today’s AI and brain-tech impacts. It questions how these advances blur truth and heighten distraction, urging a reevaluation of our senses in a tech-saturated world.
Kusano encourages introspection on the interplay between our changing perceptions and the evolving digital landscape, advocating for a mindful engagement with the world around us.

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