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Emi Kusano SyntheticYouth: Takenoko Zoko available only at Kinetek Gallery on the MASS MoCA campus

About the exhibition Source Data explores how artists use AI as a collaborator, not a replacement, to expand creative possibilities through generative images, animations, and other media. By examining the artists' source data and AI transformations, the exhibition questions traditional notions of authorship and originality, encouraging a nuanced understanding of AI's impact on artistic and human expression. The featured NFT collections with custom metadata offer a deeper look into the source materials and the evolving relationship between human and artificial creativity. Emi Kusano's work on display: Title: Synthetic Youth: Takenoko Zoku Contact Kinetek | Gallery to Purchase, email [email protected] Year (of completion): 2025 Edition (or series): 1 Description: In the early 1980s, the streets of Harajuku, Tokyo, became a stage for the Takenoko Zoku—a flamboyant youth subculture known for their colorful outfits and spontaneous dance performances to disco music in pedestrian zones. This ephemeral movement embodied a spirit of playful rebellion and radical self-expression. In this piece, the artist reimagines the Takenoko Zoku through the lens of AI, portraying them as a synthetic youth culture that hovers between memory and myth. Utilizing AI hallucinations and visual transitions, the work captures the fleeting brilliance of youthful energy—blurring the lines between the real and the artificial, the past and the future. Nostalgic yet futuristic, the artwork resurrects the ghost of a forgotten subculture, inviting viewers to reconsider what is lost, what is remembered, and what can be reimagined in the digital age. Kusano's "Synthetic Youth: Takenoko Zoku" debuts in the exhibition 'Source Data' on view at Kinetek | Gallery at MASS MoCA campus, Building 1, Floor 3 and online in Kinetek | Metaverse, curated by Kinetek co-founder Debra McGrory. Title: Morphing Memory Of Neural Fad #1 Year (of completion): 2025 Edition (or series): 1 Description: "Morphing Memory" series 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." Kinetek Presents Digital Gallery in Custom Metaverse Kinetek complements their physical gallery space with a custom metaverse digital twin where guests can engage with the ‘Source Data’ exhibit in a new, immersive setting. Check out Emi Kusano's artworks in the Kinetek | Metaverse! Visit & Collect at: https://kinetek.art/ https://instagram/kinetek_art https://metaverse.kinetek.art https://marketplace.kinetek.art