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Rivals: Conceptual art (Part 1)
Promptography as a school of ideas.
Promptography is not just a technique — it’s a philosophical practice. By crafting prompts, the artist engages in a dialogue with the machine, where language becomes the brush and meaning the canvas. Each prompt carries an intention, a question, or a subconscious impulse, making promptography less about the final image and more about the process of thinking.
It challenges traditional authorship and expands the notion of creativity into a collaborative, generative space. As a school of ideas, promptography encourages experimentation, ambiguity, and reflection — offering a conceptual playground where aesthetics, language, and technology converge.
Emi Kusano — “Techno-Animism”
Emi Kusano 草野 絵美, one of Japan's most prominent AI artists explores parallel realities and an alternate Japan through various ages, periods, and aesthetics. She particularly engages with retro-futurism and false memories in this work — “Techno-Animism.” “Kamikakushi” is a Japanese term for children who have disappeared, often described as being “spirited away” by gods, representing a semi-religious, semi-therapeutic approach for grieving parents. The term gained popularity after Hayao Miyazaki’s film “Spirited Away (Sen-to Chihiro no Kamikakushi).” In this piece by Emi Kusano, a…
