Contemporary Artist
Art, Research &
Collaboration
Misato Kurimune continues to develop artworks and conduct research around the relationships between images, perception, AI, memory, media technologies, and human experience.
Through dialogue and experimentation with researchers, cultural institutions, corporate R&D teams, engineers, and specialists from diverse fields, she engages in collaborations that reconsider questions arising within each field through artistic practice, developing them into new visual experiences and artworks.
AREAS OF INQUIRY
01
Image & Reality
How do images represent, edit, and construct reality?
This inquiry explores the instability that emerges between capture, generation, and display.
02
Perception & Conditions of Seeing
How is seeing shaped by the body, environment, time, and culture?
This inquiry reconsiders the mechanisms and limits of perception.
03
AI, Generation & Selection
What does algorithmic generation and selection make possible—and what does it render invisible?
This inquiry explores the evolving relationship between human and machine creativity.
04
Memory, Transformation & Circulation
How is memory recorded, transformed, and transmitted?
This inquiry examines the circulation and re-editing of images.
05
Digital Image & Materiality
How do digital images connect with material surfaces and physical space to create new sensory experiences?
This inquiry considers the material dimensions of the digital image.
SELECTED WORKS
WAYS OF COLLABORATION
01
Research Dialogue
Bringing together perspectives from different fields, this format uses dialogue to identify and develop new shared questions.
02
Artistic Research
Through research, observation, and experimentation, this format deepens questions through artistic methods and explores ways of generating and sharing knowledge.
03
R&D / Technical Experiment
New technologies and tools are tested collaboratively to explore their potential for artistic expression, perception, and new forms of experience.
04
Artistic Project / Commission
Collaborative projects and commissioned works are developed in response to the aims and context of each project, creating new artworks and experiences.
05
Exhibition, Presentation & Publication
Outcomes are shared through exhibitions, talks, publications, and other forms of presentation, creating opportunities for dialogue with wider audiences.