In her practice, Kusano approaches AI as an extension of her body—an augmented double through which she can inhabit multiple states of being. Rather than positioning herself outside the work, she often becomes its protagonist, using her own likeness, gestures, and emotional memory as material for digital transformation. The exhibition presents three distinct series that trace her evolving dialogue with AI.

Cyborg Erosion is generated from a dataset composed entirely of the artist’s face—an archive holding the incidental traces of lived experience: scars, pores, wrinkles. When the AI manipulates these details, it treats them not as biographical markers but as non-sentient material. Kusano allows her features to drift toward abstraction and anonymity, capturing the moment the body slides from memory into pure information. 

In Morphing Memory of Aging Shell, a video generated from childhood photographs, AI extrapolates “other possible selves” across an entire speculative lifespan. The work loops from childhood to old age and beyond death, invoking the idea of reincarnation while raising ethical questions about continuity and the body. By confronting these non-existent images—futures invented by the algorithm—Kusano paradoxically reinforces her own sense of presence: “I am truly here.”

In She/Body/Null, Kusano enters a dystopian world under a red moon as a cyborg-like figure whose form continuously mutates—twisting, dissolving into patterns, reassembling from data. Here she embraces and critiques the biases ingrained in AI systems, deliberately embodying the familiar sci-fi archetype of the “mysterious Asian female cyborg” to expose the cultural stereotypes that shape machine vision. The series imagines two possible futures: one in which technology becomes a mechanism of authoritarian control, and another in which expanded bodily and cognitive capacities offer new liberatory possibilities. Together, these three bodies of work consider how AI alters the image, the memory, and the body itself—inviting viewers to reflect on how identity may be reshaped in the age of the machine.