Started in 2018, ongoing to this date
Artistic inquiry into technologies of artificial neural networks (AI) and machine learning to reconstruct missing fragments in sculptures and friezes from the periods of classical Antiquity as well as to generate never-existed, yet genuine documents of synthetic histories. The work is a form of reverse archeology questioning epistemological qualities of Ai accelerated methodologies in relation to historical studies.
2022
hashd0x is a series of tactical open source soft- & hard-ware prototypes, designed to combat misinformation in photographic & video content. The software tools revolve around issuance and registration of instant & tamper-proof hashmark, blockchain native alternative of watermark and a proposed fix for our computationally accelerated & disturbed information ecology.
2023
Images of chairs were generated by a Stable Diffusion deep learning model from the prompt a single chair on a white background. The dataset was reused to retrain the model, as if to enhance its understanding of the given prompt. After six iterations, data cannibalism led the figurative chair image to become abstract digital noise, exposing susceptibility to corruption of computational ontology due to data feedback loops within Ai model echo chambers.
Started in 2011, ongoing to this date
An online intervention and mystification of a scientific breakthrough of a discovery of previously ‘non-existent’ colour. Presented in a form of a website of a fictitious American company, video ads and mockumentary interviews became a viral sensation attracting mass attention on the internet.
SELECTED WORKS
2018
The work investigates the longevity of media carries by juxtaposing the same information being held by two fundamentally different mediums: a text carved into stone and a .jpeg file hosted on Wikipedia. The investigation is not complete until one of them is lost, thus revealing its less durable qualities in the site of the other. Which one will be lost first? Only time will tell…
2022
A 4-GPU computational sculpture. Using energy from a german provider, which burns Russian gas to create electricity. The sculpture completes proof-of-work in real-time for the Ethereum blockchain, thus mining Ethereum currency directly into the official cryptocurrency wallet of Ukraine. Russian gas thus gets directly monetised into humanitarian aid for the Ukrainian people, via the means of the german hesitation to employ an embargo on Russian gas.
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George Egor Kraft
Artist, researcher & director
Anna Kraft
Researcher & producer