Exhibited Works: Content Aware Studies series
Duration: 02.02–12.02.2018
Event type: Group show
Organizer: State Academy of Art and Design
Venue: Stiglitz State Academy of Art and Design, Saint Petersburg, Russia
The 11th CYFEST projects in 2017 were exhibited in principal exhibition venues in New York and Beijing. In 2018 festival took place in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Venice, Caserta, Italy and London.
11th CYFEST RUSSIA: The Festival’s partners in Saint Petersburg are classical and experimental cultural institutions; among them Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design, Youth Educational Center at the State Hermitage, Saint Petersburg Sound Museum, Art Center Pushkinskaya-10, Annenkirche (St. Anna’s Lutheran Church) and Sreda Space. The main project of CYFEST 11 is named “Weather Forecast: Digital Cloudiness”.
Exhibition view
Exhibited Works: Content Aware Studies series
Duration: 02.02–12.02.2018
Event type: Group show
Organizer: State Academy of Art and Design
Venue: Stiglitz State Academy of Art and Design, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Exhibition view
The 11th CYFEST projects in 2017 were exhibited in principal exhibition venues in New York and Beijing. In 2018 festival took place in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Venice, Caserta, Italy and London.
11th CYFEST RUSSIA: The Festival’s partners in Saint Petersburg are classical and experimental cultural institutions; among them Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design, Youth Educational Center at the State Hermitage, Saint Petersburg Sound Museum, Art Center Pushkinskaya-10, Annenkirche (St. Anna’s Lutheran Church) and Sreda Space. The main project of CYFEST 11 is named “Weather Forecast: Digital Cloudiness”.
Tokyo, Mishuku, JPN
Vienna, Neubau, AUT
Egor Kraft – artist-researcher, founder
Anna Kraft – researcher, director
mail/at/kraft.studio
Tokyo, Mishuku, JPN
Vienna, Neubau, AUT
Egor Kraft – artist-researcher, founder
Anna Kraft – researcher, director
#ReverseArchaeology #SyntheticHistories #Cognitecture #AIsthetics #Engistemics
Initiated in 2017, ongoing.
Marble, polyamide, machine learning algorithms, custom software, original dataset, multichannel video installation.
A critical and technical exploration of the capacities of AI models to reconstruct missing fragments of objects from classical antiquity and generate synthetic historical documents carved in stone. This work questions the epistemological qualities of AI-accelerated historiography, akin to 'reverse archaeology'.
#Infodemics #Infollution #Knowlegistics #EngineeredTruth
Initiated in 2011, ongoing.
5-channel video installation; HD film; website: thenewcolor.net; book, edition of 50.
An online mystification concerning a parascientific breakthrough discovery of a never-before-seen colour. The digital myth took the form of a fictitious company's website, video adverts & mockumentary interviews to become a viral sensation attracting mass attention online.