Exhibited Works: CAS_13.2 Augmented Hercules, CAS_12.1 Caryatid Portrait, CAS_08 Hellenistic Ruler, CAS_V03 Deep Portrait: 6 channel version, CAS_V05 Synthetic Portrait: Vertical Version
Duration: 12.09 – 01.12.2019
Event type: Group Show
Curator: Xiaoyu Weng
Organizer: NCCA
Venue: Ekaterinburg, Russia
The 5th Ural industrial Biennial opens on September 12 and will be on view through December 1, 2019. Entitled For a Multitude of Futures, the Main Project, curated by Xiaoyu Weng (Guggenheim Museum, New York), responds to this biennial’s theme of Immortality by investigating the evermore complex relationship between humanity and technology. It proposes a radical re-imagination of life and death, and of our materialist pursuit of immortality, in order to open up possibilities for a multitude of futures.
Exhibition view
CAS_V03 Deep Portrait: 6 channel version
CAS_V05 Synthetic Portrait: Vertical Version
CAS_12.1 Caryatid Portrait
CAS_13.2 Augmented Hercules
Exhibited Works: CAS_13.2 Augmented Hercules, CAS_12.1 Caryatid Portrait, CAS_08 Hellenistic Ruler, CAS_V03 Deep Portrait: 6 channel version, CAS_V05 Synthetic Portrait: Vertical Version
Duration: 12.09 – 01.12.2019
Event type: Group Show
Curator: Xiaoyu Weng
Organizer: NCCA
Venue: Ekaterinburg, Russia
Exhibition view
CAS_V03 Deep Portrait: 6 channel version
CAS_V05 Synthetic Portrait: Vertical Version
CAS_12.1 Caryatid Portrait
CAS_13.2 Augmented Hercules
The 5th Ural industrial Biennial opens on September 12 and will be on view through December 1, 2019. Entitled For a Multitude of Futures, the Main Project, curated by Xiaoyu Weng (Guggenheim Museum, New York), responds to this biennial’s theme of Immortality by investigating the evermore complex relationship between humanity and technology. It proposes a radical re-imagination of life and death, and of our materialist pursuit of immortality, in order to open up possibilities for a multitude of futures.
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
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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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