Pioneering artist blending technology, performance, & media
Kasumi’s work is about memory and the echo chambers of memory - a perpetual feedback loop of patterns that creates consciousness. She uses the symbols, images, and gestures that encode meaning and form the units from which we tell our stories, and that paradoxically both limit and expand human possibility. Her raw materials are clips of moving images culled from the scraps of mid-20th Century mass media and early 80's Japanese popular culture. These materials are at one and the same time the contents of electronic archives and the unconscious reservoir that feeds our current dreams.
“Her lexicon is broad, her apprehension of technology commanding, and the way she pokes the membranes of our minds is unique.”
“The experience of seeing the film leaves one stunned by Kasumi’s skill as an artist in a style too new for one to expect such artistry.”
“...an uproarious bricolage of alien-invasion panic, financial distress, military might and patriotic sentiment.”
“Heralded for creating a new genre of cinema, critics call Kasumi “one of the most original and important artists working today. ”
Select Projects
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Holy Men of the NBA—Cleveland Cavaliers at Rocket Mortgage Field House
2022-present
Interactive Blades, MoCA Cleveland–in partnership with Case Western Reserve University
2021-present
Surfacing and Selections from The Perpetual Series
2023-24
“Canvas & Cuisine” Fundraising Dinner at Edwins Leadership & Restaurant Institute
2024
Clients
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Kasumi thrives on innovation, experimentation, and collaboration.
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