Memento

Shuhei Kono

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Final work

I am a Japanese mature student - background in literature I worked professionally in technology industry for a number of years to save money to study Fine Art in London. While in Japan, I was creating photographic works both with and without using camera.Presently I am studying 4D and Photography on Foundation and concerns of my practice is creating works using various techniques including AI about the historical and contemporary reliance on the nuclear power.

I am a Japanese mature student - background in literature I worked professionally in technology i...

CollegeSchool of Pre-Degree Studies
CourseUAL Foundation Diploma in Art and Design
Graduation year2025

If stars are messages from the past, my project attempts the reverse. I'm exploring how visual languages—from ancient cave markings to viral memes—might carry meaning across time, space, and species. Through natural materials, radio waves, and speculative codes, my work sends an imagined apology and warning for the nuclear traces we leave behind. Projected into the universe, this gesture asks whether images and technologies can speak to latent, non-human actors, whispering beyond contemporary Earth.