# Project Description

Memento

Shuhei Kono

Summary

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...

College School of Pre-Degree Studies

Course UAL Foundation Diploma in Art and Design

Graduation year 2025

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.

Final work

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Detail showing printed image

Image combining a found meme with the 2003 alphabet from the Dutil-Dumas Message, binary data generated from the image, audio mixing black hole signification and siren sounds, limbs, metal rods, transceiver, speaker, laptop, cables, rope, and wire

132×114×210cm

Research and process

Sketchbook page showing the deepening of the concept and ideas of visualisation for ’Memento’

Sketchbook page showing my questions

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