Young AI Artist, Yuma Kishi’s first collection of works, “Imaginary Bones” is on sale! He is a Contemporary Artist who is leading the AI art scene in Japan. They are limited edition with NFT art
With recent popularity of NFT art, AI art has been gaining so much attention even more. Young AI artist, Yuma Kishi, who has been getting recognition not only inside Japan but from all over the world, has released his first collection of works.
Kishi considers himself a “Catalyst” of AI. He embodies his creative activity through his own body. He recently started to build three dimensional works by changing the shape of the art from an image which was read by an AI called, ”GAN”.
This collection of works is named “Imaginary Bones” and is the exact title of his solo exhibition at √K Contemporary (Root K Contemporary, Shinjuku Tokyo). The core of the collection in his latest work is about the reinterpretation of “bones” from the viewpoint of AI. The concept of this work is presenting bones to the world with different shapes and rules from our world.
Also, in the collection there are works which were exhibited at his first solo exhibition titled “Neighbor‘s room,” and other previously unexhibited works. This collection of work will take you on a new trip where you can immerse yourself in the works of Kishi and AI which are in the past, present and future – which are all so complicated and intricate.
This collection of works are sold as a normal version which is in a book and also a limited edition version which is with NFT art. You can only buy it from the shopping club by Pony Canyon and it is available to purchase from overseas.
There are comments on the collection from the artists and famous people who joined the works with their comments and poems.
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We are made of bones, flesh, and blood, but is that what makes us human? If so, why is a bone a bone? Why is a chair a chair? Whenever I look at Kishi’s work, I feel as if I have been given infinite time to ponder over the question, “Where is the irrefutable proof that I am human?”
Yu Ishizuka (Fashion Model)
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Kishi is a trailblazer, paving the way for the next generation of art.
imma (Virtual Human)
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Right now, we’ll realize the crusted, egocentric interpretations of things are just beginning to break down and that means stepping into a whole new dream.
OSRIN(PERIMETRON)
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When I look at Kishi’s work, I am amazed at how it unsettles my own common sense. It also stirs up something like a boundless curiosity for a new world inherent in AI. I can sense the heart of AI. It’s a rather strange feeling.
Moeka Shiotsuka (hitsujibungaku)
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Yuma Kishi and AI are procreating. His artworks must be their children. In other words, this book is a collection of new life forms!
Makoto Nagahisa (Film Director)
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I sometimes hear scary stories about humans being replaced by AI, or that AI will become an enemy, though I don’t know if AI has any intention of doing so. But it seems to me that Yuma Kishi’s work, at least, is created through a collaboration with a (somewhat special) neighbor, the AI. I find myself feeling a kind of hope.
Artworks that are created through the give and take of each individual have greater freedom and can leap to new, unexpected heights. At the same time, the AI’s expressions can also evoke in me a sense of nostalgia or sympathy, and I find that infinitely interesting. It’s also a slightly frightening sensation.
Prompted by Kishi’s work, I am beginning to reconsider certain ways of looking at things that I had never been conscious of before.
Yukichi Kasaku/men (Singer-songwriter)
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Yuma Kishi’s collection of works, “Imaginary Bones” has been on sale with great reviews.
[ Information about the collection ]
Title: Yuma Kishi / Imaginary Bones
Size: 286×225
Price
“With NFT art (Limited Edition)”: ¥18,000 (without tax)
“Normal edition”: ¥3,800(without tax)
Sales agency: Pony Canyon
Collections sale special website: https://
[ Artist｜Yuma Kishi ]
He thinks of AI not as something that imitates people, but as an alien intelligence from a different dimension, and by installing this intelligence in his own body and lending himself to its possession, he creates works that place digital intelligence and the analog body in a parallel relationship.
In his works, he often borrows motifs from past art history, which are combined with technology in a distorted form. For viewers who intervene in the space of the work, this evokes a sensation like a momentary dislocation of awareness of the self and the world that exists in the here and now.
In recent years, he has been active in a wide range of fields, including fashion for VOGUE and NIKE × UNDERCOVER, collaborations with music artists such as GLIMSPANKY, Tempalay and Teebs, and participation in the group exhibition “imma-ten” featuring virtual human imma.
He also energetically exhibits his work as NFT art and so on. As a leader of AI art in Japan, he has been attracting attention from overseas, and has participated in group exhibitions abroad.
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