Ars Electronica Festival · 2026
AI’s Silent Omissions
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 2026
“AI’s Silent Omissions” by Nozomu Kubota received a Honorary Mention in the Digital Humanity category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2026.
AI's Silent Omissions is a documentary work that examines the structural exclusion produced by contemporary image-generation technologies, in which only bodies defined as "normal" are selected, while others are treated as outliers and systematically removed.
About Nozomu Kubota
Nozomu Kubota (JP) , born in NY in 1984, lives in Tokyo. He founded his company while studying at Keio University at the age of 19. He holds an MFA from Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Inter-Media Art.
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