Exhibited Works: 'Air Kiss' film, prototype of CAS_03 Lucius_Verus
Duration: 12.04–30.04.2018
Event type: Group show
Organizer: The Foundation of Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin, The Polish Institute in St. Petersburg, The Institute of Finland in St. Petersburg, Street Art Museum, and Smolny College
Venue: St. Petersburg, Russia
'Air Kiss' installation view
Prototype of CAS_03 Lucius_Verus exhibition view
Exhibited Works: 'Air Kiss' film, prototype of CAS_03 Lucius_Verus
Duration: 12.04–30.04.2018
Event type: Group show
Organizer: The Foundation of Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin, The Polish Institute in St. Petersburg, The Institute of Finland in St. Petersburg, Street Art Museum, and Smolny College
Venue: St. Petersburg, Russia
'Air Kiss' installation view
Prototype of CAS_03 Lucius_Verus exhibition view
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the capacities of AI models to reconstruct missing fragments of objects from classical antiquity and generate synthetic historical documents carved in stone.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.