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The native form of this personal name is Kusano Emi. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Emi Kusano
草野絵美
Born (1990-08-04) August 4, 1990 (age 34)
 Japan Tokyo,Japan
Alma materThe Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University
Occupation
Artist
Known forDigital Art
ChildrenZombie Zoo Keeper [ja]（eldery son）
WebsiteOfficial website

Emi Kusano (Japanese: 草野絵美, Hepburn: Kusano Emi) (born August 4, 1990) is a Japanese multidisciplinary artist, entrepreneur, singer and songwriter also based in Tokyo.

She is a lead singer of the synthwave unit "Satellite Young" and also writes and composes their music.

Early life

Emi was born and raised in Tokyo.[1]Prior to 2008, during her high school years, she was active as a street fashion photographer. She took street snaps primarily in Harajuku and published them on the website "Japanese Streets", as well as in English magazine "Metropolis", CNN's travel guide magazine "CNN GO", and UK industry magazine "WGSN".

In 2011, while studying at the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies at Keio University, Emi started a startup company.[1] As a member of the fourth batch of Open Network Lab, a business incubator led by Joichi Ito, she launched a beta version of "arraies", a social networking service for graphic designers targeting overseas users. However, the development was postponed due to the employment of the founding members.[2]

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In 2014, she started her work of a music unit "Satellite Young" in genre of synthwave, with the Soundman BelleMaison Sekine.[3]

She created music with a modern twist on the music of the 80's, using cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence and online dating and the post-Internet society as themes in her lyrics. arranging the 80's music into the present style.[4]

She and her band provided the theme song for the indie anime "Senpai Club" from Sweden, released music on US based indie music labels such as Future City Records and New Retro Wave, gaining a large fan base in the United States and Europe. In 2017, the band acted in the music festival "South by Southwest" in Texas[4].

In 2018, Emi was selected as a participating artist for the hackathon "Art Hack Day" that specialized in cross-disciplinary art. She presented an art piece called "Singing Dream", a karaoke machine with artificial life. She won the Special Jury Prize (Wada Ei Prize).[5] In the same year, she left the advertising agency and became a freelancer.

Since 2019, Emi has been appointed as a part-time lecturer at the Tokyo University of the Arts. She stand on the podium together with Sputniko! who is a contemporary artist.[6]

In 2019, Instababy Generator, a co-created installation with Junichi Yamaoka that explores the future of designer babies, won an award in the Art Gallery at SIGGRAPH.[7]

In October 2020, under the name of Emi Satellite, she released her first single "Glass Ceiling", an empowerment song resonates with the difficulty of being a woman and carries a message of moving towards the future.[8]。

In March 2021, Emi released her second single "IPO". The lyrics were inspired by the daily fluctuations of the stock market ups and downs. At the same time, she exhibited her first NFT artwork, "Love Is an IPO,"[9] which was sold on the Foundation of NFT auction site.

In April 2022, Emi co-founded NFT's art collection "Shinsei Glaverse" with Ayaka Ohira, Devin Mancuso, and Jack Baldwin. She serves as creative director. The machine generated 8888 gal illustrations, including hairstyles, clothing, eye color and shape, and more. The work was ranked #1 in OpenSea's "Top NFTs" ranking, 24-hour category, on April 14 and stayed there for several days. The team's ultimate goal is to turn Galverse into an iconic IP, underpinned by a real anime production dreamed up and created in their native Japan.[10]

As of April 17th, the total transaction amount, including secondary market trades, reached over 3600 ETH (Equivalent to more than 10.23 million US dollar)..[11]

In April 2023, her series of AI-created fictional street photography works will be selected for the Japan Contemporary Collection at the digital art gallery "Bright Moments ". [12]

Personal life

Emi married at the age of 21 in March 2012 and gave birth to her first child in November of the same year.

She has two sons and the elder son is active as an Pixel artist under the name "Zombie Zoo Keeper [ja]" .

From In August 2021, She minted his pixel art on "OpenSea" for her son's summer research project, and it gained attention after being purchased by Brud CEO Trevor Trevor McFedries , among others, and attracted a lot of attention. As a result, many people became interested in and purchased the artwork. In addition, Steve Aoki purchased the work for the equivalent of 21.82 thousand US dollar, further increasing its popularity.[13][14][15]

Bibliography

  • "Neo Parenting, Developing Intellectual Curiosity with Parents and Children" (March 2022, CCC Media House, Japanese)
  • "Let's touch the science in the future! Ouchi-Jikken-go" (March 2022, CCC Media House, Japanese)

Art exhibition

  • "Japan Fashion Now" (April 2011, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York )
  • "Four Alchemists Method" (January 2012, Seibu Department Store Art Space)
  • "Shibukaru Festival" (October 2012, Parco Museum)
  • "Art Hack Day" (March 2018, National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation )
  • "What is NFT?! ~The world of NFT through animation~" (July 2022, Haneda Airport museum)
  • "Hello my name is NFT" (September 2022, Laforet Museum)
  • "Tokyo Digital Art Gallery" (October 2022, ARTFACTORY Jonanjima)

Filmography and performance

  • Sony walkman shooting
  • Panasonic Lumix GX1 tied-up shooting
  • Recruit (company) app profile shooting
  • Santen Pharmaceutical, Sante PC ,TV ad appearance[16]
  • Adobe Premiere Rush CC web as appearance and theme song [17]
  • Google Pixel Buds in-store ad appearance and theme song [18]

Appearance

Television
  • SENSORS (April 18, 2018 -, BS NTV , regular appearance as an assistant MC)
  • Reiwa Net Theory "NFT & Metaverse" (March 2022, 3, NHK E Tele , studio appearance)
  • Reiwa Net Theory 10min. "Change with NFT! Art & Entertainment" (March 19, 2022, NHK E-tele , appeared as a lecturer and MC)
  • Reiwa Net Theory "WEB3 Part 1" (June 2022, 6, NHK E Tele , studio appearance)
  • Reiwa Net Theory "WEB3 Part 2" (July 2022, 7, NHK E Tele , studio appearance)
  • Sukkiri (From July 29, 2022, NTV , regular appearance as a commentator)
Radio
  • Roar in the galaxy! Space G-Men TAKUYA (November 2009, Nippon Broadcasting System, biweekly regular)
  • Groove E Motion (January 2011 - January 2012, Radio Shonan, regular appearance as an assistant)
  • Magnet Girl Radio (January 2012 - October 2012, SHIBUYA-FM, regular appearance as composition producer/ main personality)
  • PRIME FACTOR (January 2015 -, J-WAVE, regular appearance in the TRED THE TREND corner)
  • Geek Mom Communication by Emi Kusano (June 2018 -, Voicy, Main MC)
  • Futurelists (October 19 2018, -, JFN , Guest MC)

References

  1. ^ a b Emi Kusano's Website (In Japanese and English) "Biography". 草野絵美公式サイト (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  2. ^ Open Network Lab、起業家育成プログラム第4期参加チームを決定(Japanese)
  3. ^ "The Kong Show introduces Satellite Young". JAPANTODAY. 2015-03-11. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
  4. ^ a b Heisei generations make their "Envious 80's" - an unknown band to he appointed at an American Music Festival "平成生まれが作る「憧れの80年代」 無名のユニットがアメリカの音楽フェスに呼ばれるまで". BuzzDeed News (in Japanese). 2017-03-12. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  5. ^ "Art Hack Day 2018" Selected an art piece won the first prize - The National Museum Of Emerging Science and Innovation "「Art Hack Day 2018」最優秀作品決定！ - 日本科学未来館" (PDF). Nihon Kagaku Miraikan (in Japanese). Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  6. ^ List of teachers "教員一覧". Tokyo University of the Arts (in Japanese). 2020-04-28. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  7. ^ "ACM Digital Library". ACM Digital Library. 2019-09-15. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
  8. ^ Kusano Emi from Satellite Young released her first solo single 'Glass Ceiling' under the name of 'Emi Satellite' and its MV""Satellite Young・草野絵美、Emi Satellite名義で初ソロ・シングル「Glass Ceiling」リリース ＆ MV公開". Spincoaster (in Japanese). 2020-10-14. Retrieved 2020-10-14.
  9. ^ Emi Kusano from Satellite Young released a new single "IPO" singing about ups and downs in the stock market and exhibited her first NFT art work at the same time "Satellite Young・草野絵美、株式市場のアップダウンを歌う新曲「IPO」リリース　初のNFT作品も同時出展". Spincoaster (in Japanese). 2020-10-14. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
  10. ^ "Shinsei Galverse: Creating Japan's First Breakout Web3 Success with Bueno". Buenosdias. 2022-08-17. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
  11. ^ [NFT and the family] The reason why the total transaction amount of mother's art piece reached equivalent to more than 1.3 billion yen. Nishiyama, Rio (2022-04-18). "【NFT家族】母親のアートが13億円以上の取引総額になった理由。". BUSINESS INSIDER JAPAN. Retrieved 2022-05-03.
  12. ^ "Bright Moments Tokyo". Bright Moments Gallery. 2023-04-05. Retrieved 2023-04-18.
  13. ^ [An NFT capriccio] Why reached at a price of 3.8 million yen of a summer homework by third-grader child? Rio Nishiyama (2021-09-09). "【NFT狂想曲】なぜ、小学3年生の夏休みの自由研究に380万円の価値がついたのか". Business Insider Japan. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
  14. ^ An 8 year-old boy created one NFT art work and result in the equivalent of 1.6 million yen! He's glad to buy a pokemon trading-card Akiko Kobayashi (2021-09-09). "8歳の少年が描いた1枚の絵が、NFT取引で160万円相当に！ 「ポケモンカード買えてうれしい」". Buzzfeed Japan. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
  15. ^ Steve Aoki has purchesed it for 2.4 million yen! How great is a famous 8-year-old boy and his "NFT art". "スティーヴ・アオキが240万円で購入！ 話題の8歳少年「NFTアート」がすごい。". Pen Online. 2021-09-17.
  16. ^ " Who is she featured as a spokesperson for "Sante PC" ad? - Me who could not take a great achievement at ad agency to be performing in TV ad "「サンテPCの広告の人って誰？」 広告代理店で活躍できなかった私が、テレビCMに出るまで。". Huffingtonpost (in Japanese). 2018-07-11. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  17. ^ Satellite Young released their new track was selected as a theme song on Adobe Rush WEB ad "Satellite Young、新曲配信＆草野絵美も出演するAdobe「Rush」WEB CM楽曲に起用 | Spincoaster｜ 心が震える音楽との出逢いを". Spincoaster (in Japanese). 2018-11-02. Retrieved 2019-01-02.
  18. ^ A new song "IPO" by Emi Sattelite, who is a vocalist of Sattelite Young Emi Kusano, has released! Its remix version also released as NFT. "Satellite Youngボーカル草野絵美ことEmi Satelliteによる新曲"IPO"がリリース！リミックス版をNFTとしても発表 | Qetic". Qetic. Retrieved 2021-04-14.

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