Emi Kusano’s New Work Debuts in Console Spirituality
A Feral File exhibition exploring gaming as ritual and reflection, curated by LAN Party and launching on June 24, 2025
Dear Collectors and Supporters,
I’m pleased to share that my latest digital work, Data Pilgrims, will be released as part of the upcoming exhibition Console Spirituality, curated by Vienna Kim and Benoît Palop (LAN Party) and presented by Feral File.
🗓 Exhibition opening & artwork release:
June 24, 2025 at 17:00 UTC (1:00 PM EDT)
🔗 Learn More Here
About the exhibition
Console Spirituality brings together five artists exploring the emotional, symbolic, and speculative power of video games. Through glitch aesthetics, game logic, and worldbuilding, the exhibition reflects on how digital spaces have become sites of personal and collective transformation.
Alongside works by Keiken & Gabriel Massan, John Provencher, and Sabato Visconti, Console Spirituality reimagines the rituals and aesthetics of gaming as pathways to new forms of spiritual reflection.
About my work: Data Pilgrims
Created in collaboration with AI, Data Pilgrims is a series of digital images that imagine mythological pilgrimages in meditative virtual landscapes. Drawing from the slow, atmospheric sensibility of walking simulators and the visual language of ukiyo-e, these works invite viewers to wander through algorithmically glitched environments shaped by memory, code, and introspection.
There is no destination, only the act of movement and reflection, echoing ritual and offering space for quiet spiritual engagement within a digital realm.
Opening Program
The exhibition will launch with a curator and artist walkthrough led by Michael Connor of Rhizome, programming partner for this project. I hope you’ll join us to explore each work and hear more about the thinking behind the exhibition.
If you have questions about collecting or would like more information, feel free to contact the team at lauren@feralfile.com.
Thank you for your continued interest and support. I look forward to sharing this new work and participating in a timely conversation on digital identity, memory, and the imaginative possibilities of code.
Warm regards,
Emi Kusano ♡
emikusano.art | @emikusano