Ikuo Yamamoto's AI Art Explores Fracture, Memory, and Urban Alienation

Ikuo Yamamoto, a Tokyo-based visual artist and director trained at Tama Art University, is featured in creAtIva AI Art Book Vol/9 'ART: it is argument'. His work, including 'Luck in the Sickroom With Dice', originates from a personal experience of illness, where chance, belief, and survival intersected. Yamamoto employs generative AI processes, deliberately allowing errors and glitches to shape his images, a method he compares to hip-hop sampling. His art reflects a Japanese urban subjectivity, where metropolitan density, visual sophistication, and alienation coexist. Critics draw parallels to David Hockney's joiners and Wong Kar-wai's cinematic sensibility, noting shared themes of fragmented perception and urban melancholy. The piece is part of a curated selection by Wiktor V/R, founder of creAtIva, and is available in Vol/9, which also includes artist narratives and augmented reality videos.