Duration: 10.11.2018–23.02.2019
Event type: Solo show
Organizer: Anna Nova Gallery
Venue: St. Petersburg, Russia
ÁKKTA, Egor Kraft’s largest-ever presented solo show, brings together the artist's key projects of recent years, previously shown at various international art institutions. Kraft’s ongoing research “Content Aware Studies” is the central focus of the exhibition. Egor Kraft’s multidisciplinary practice has incorporated AI, video art, and interventions, as well as traditional media. He explores the blurred boundaries between the real and the virtual, creating narratives to question how human irrational subconscious reasoning will co-exist with a ubiquitous impartial and quantitative machinic agency rendered by the technologies of today and tomorrow.
Exhibition view
Exhibition view
'The New Color' Multi-Channel Video Installation
'The New Color' Multi-Channel Video Installation
'The Kickback' Multi-Channel Video Installation
'The Kickback' Multi-Channel Video Installation
'Content Aware Studies' installation
'Content Aware Studies' installation
'Content Aware Studies' installation
'Content Aware Studies' installation
CAS_V04 Hellenistic Portrait
CAS_11 Androgynous Portrait
CAS_V04 Hellenistic Portrait
CAS_11 Androgynous Portrait
CAS_08 Hellenistic Ruler
CAS_09 Colossal head of Hercules
CAS_08 Hellenistic Ruler
CAS_09 Colossal head of Hercules
CAS_10 Telephos Drapery
Content Aware Studies GAN Series
CAS_10 Telephos Drapery
Content Aware Studies GAN Series
CAS_10 Telephos Drapery
CAS_10 Telephos Drapery
'I Print Therefore I Am' exhibition view
'I Print Therefore I Am' exhibition view
'I Print Therefore I Am' exhibition view
'I Print Therefore I Am' film
Air Kiss, 5-Channel Video Installation
Air Kiss, 5-Channel Video Installation
Air Kiss, 5-Channel Video Installation
Air Kiss, 5-Channel Video Installation
'Air Kiss' Book
'New Now' Print
'Air Kiss' Book
'New Now' Print
Duration: 10.11.2018–23.02.2019
Event type: Solo show
Organizer: Anna Nova Gallery
Venue: St. Petersburg, Russia
ÁKKTA, Egor Kraft’s largest-ever presented solo show, brings together the artist's key projects of recent years, previously shown at various international art institutions. Kraft’s ongoing research “Content Aware Studies” is the central focus of the exhibition. Egor Kraft’s multidisciplinary practice has incorporated AI, video art, and interventions, as well as traditional media. He explores the blurred boundaries between the real and the virtual, creating narratives to question how human irrational subconscious reasoning will co-exist with a ubiquitous impartial and quantitative machinic agency rendered by the technologies of today and tomorrow.
Exhibition view
'The New Color' Multi-Channel Video Installation
'The Kickback' Multi-Channel Video Installation
'Content Aware Studies' installation
'Content Aware Studies' installation
CAS_V04 Hellenistic Portrait
CAS_11 Androgynous Portrait
CAS_08 Hellenistic Ruler
CAS_09 Colossal head of Hercules
CAS_10 Telephos Drapery
Content Aware Studies GAN Series
CAS_10 Telephos Drapery
'I Print Therefore I Am' exhibition view
'I Print Therefore I Am' exhibition view
Air Kiss, 5-Channel Video Installation
Air Kiss, 5-Channel Video Installation
'Air Kiss' Book
'New Now' Print
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
Content Aware Studies
The New Color
Model Collapse Studies
Tactical Archiving
Exonomics
Air Kiss
words.works
Interpoesis
Auto-Esthetic Simulations
Early Work Archive
#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.
#Cyberdolia #Infollution #Autoesthetics #Engistemics
A text-to-image AI model was given the prompt “A single chair on a white background.” After six iterations of retraining on its own outputs, the autocannibalised model lost ability to produce realistic chair images, but non-figurative digital noise instead. Thus revealing model collapse and its fragility to recursive data feedback loops.
#Autoesthtics #Cyberdolia #Engistemics
2025.
Written for Moscow Art Magazine №127
The essay explores the parallels between errors in AI image recognition and biases in human visual perception. It illustrates how both AI and humans misinterpret patterns for reasons that are both similar and different.
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