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@exonemo .✦ ݁˖
exonemo is a Japanese artist duo formed on the internet in 1996 by Kensuke Sembo and Yae Akaiwa, based in New York since 2015. Their work explores the paradoxes of the digital and analog environments surrounding us, moving freely between computer networks and the physical world to expose the relationship between technologies and the people using them. Their own profile describes the method as wielding anger, laughter and a text editor, approaching every medium with a hacking sensibility.
Across nearly thirty years the move has stayed consistent: take something so ordinary online it has become invisible, a search engine homepage, a browser window, a desktop, a dead link, and drag it across the boundary between digital and physical until both sides look strange. Playing with randomness and error, they find a kind of humorous intimacy in tools and machines we normally treat as pure utility.
Their project The Road Movie won the Golden Nica in the Net Vision category at Prix Ars Electronica in 2006. They have been NEW INC members since 2015, founded the internet secret society IDPW in 2012, and in 2020 received a museum retrospective, UN-DEAD-LINK, at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum. Their work is included in Rhizome's Net Art Anthology, and has been shown at the Whitney Museum, Aichi Triennale, YCAM, Art Tower Mito and NTT InterCommunication Center.
They will be part of WEBSITES WEBSITES WEBSITES! (WWW!) Opening September 21st in NY.
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↓ Below is an overview of their past projects