exonemo are an artist duo made up of Kensuke Sembo and Yae Akaiwa. They began collaborating online in the mid-1990s in Japan before relocating to New York City. Their work sits right where internet culture meets physical space—utilizing humor, glitches, and everyday technology to explore how digital life alters attention, bodies, and relationships.

Over time they’ve also made award-winning and institutionally commissioned works—like The Road Movie (2006), which won a Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica, and 0 to 1 / 1 to 0 (2019), a web piece commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art that overlays your browser with the changing sky over Manhattan. They’ve also shaped internet-to-IRL culture through projects like Internet Yami-Ichi, a flea-market format (started in Tokyo) where artists sell “internet-ish” objects and ideas in real space.

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