Exhibited Work: 'Twelve Nodes' installation
Duration: 24.05–28.06.2019
Event type: Group Show
Curator: Yasemin Keskintepe
Organizer: Valetta Contemporary
Venue: Valetta Contemporary, Valletta, Malta
The Internet has become a boundless repository of information, enabling a global exchange of data. Constructed upon an infrastructure of online platforms, fibre optic cables and data centres, it ushered in the age of planetary scale computation. The design of wireless communication networks became crucial for the way information is controlled. Whereas the idea behind the founding of the Internet was to imagine a space of unrestricted access to information, of civic debate and social inclusion, the actual implementation turned out quite differently. The control over data and networks seems to have become a determining factor of governmentality, considering the ongoing arms race of data accumulation and analytics. News of privacy breaches, censorship and surveillance have exposed the power struggles that are exercised by governments and corporations alike. Hence, the design of information technology extends not just to how political space is constructed but also to how the content of the political as a domain of human action and ethics is created.
'Twelve Nodes' installation view
'Twelve Nodes' installation fragment
'Twelve Nodes' installation fragment
'Twelve Nodes' installation fragment
'Twelve Nodes' installation view
Exhibited Work: 'Twelve Nodes' installation
Duration: 24.05–28.06.2019
Event type: Group Show
Curator: Yasemin Keskintepe
Organizer: Valetta Contemporary
Venue: Valetta Contemporary, Valletta, Malta
'Twelve Nodes' installation view
'Twelve Nodes' installation fragment
'Twelve Nodes' installation fragment
'Twelve Nodes' installation fragment
'Twelve Nodes' installation view
The Internet has become a boundless repository of information, enabling a global exchange of data. Constructed upon an infrastructure of online platforms, fibre optic cables and data centres, it ushered in the age of planetary scale computation. The design of wireless communication networks became crucial for the way information is controlled. Whereas the idea behind the founding of the Internet was to imagine a space of unrestricted access to information, of civic debate and social inclusion, the actual implementation turned out quite differently. The control over data and networks seems to have become a determining factor of governmentality, considering the ongoing arms race of data accumulation and analytics. News of privacy breaches, censorship and surveillance have exposed the power struggles that are exercised by governments and corporations alike. Hence, the design of information technology extends not just to how political space is constructed but also to how the content of the political as a domain of human action and ethics is created.
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.