Exhibited Works: CAS_V08 Deep Portrait: 12-channel version, CAS_05 Julia Mamea, CAS_13.2 Augmented Hercules, CAS_12.1 Caryatid Portrait
Duration: 09.09–14.10.2023
Event type: Group show
Organizer: Charim Gallery
Venue: Vienna, Austria
Is the color white “neutral”? In many western cultures, whiteness is often considered the ideal, the norm, representing cleanliness, innocence or a fresh start. White conveys class and is used as a metaphor for perfection, piousness, and purity, like the proverbial white vest or the trustworthiness of white lab coats. Describing classical sculptures in his books, the German art historian and archaeologist Johann Joachim Winckelmann established the idea of a white antiquity.
He conveyed the idea that a beautiful body appears more beautiful the whiter it is, despite being well aware of the colorfulness of ancient statues. And in the art context, the white cube, well described by Brian O’Doherty, has become the epitome of exhibition spaces, providing the optimal setting for representing artworks. Lastly, white skin has been regarded as superior to people of other racial or ethnic backgrounds, resulting in the ideology of white supremacy. The exhibition “The Dark Side of White” sheds a critical light on the supposedly “neutral” characteristics of white gallery spaces, clothes, statues, and skin, which have been established through Western-centric and patriarchy-influenced discourses. The show will discuss the consequences of white privilege, power, and dominance in various spheres of life and attempt to dismantle the myths, authority and dominance that the color white has asserted over the past centuries.
Exhibition view in Charim Gallery, 2023
Exhibited Works: CAS_V08 Deep Portrait: 12-channel version, CAS_05 Julia Mamea, CAS_13.2 Augmented Hercules, CAS_12.1 Caryatid Portrait
Duration: 09.09–14.10.2023
Event type: Group show
Organizer: Charim Gallery
Venue: Vienna, Austria
Exhibition view in Charim Gallery, 2023
Is the color white “neutral”? In many western cultures, whiteness is often considered the ideal, the norm, representing cleanliness, innocence or a fresh start. White conveys class and is used as a metaphor for perfection, piousness, and purity, like the proverbial white vest or the trustworthiness of white lab coats. Describing classical sculptures in his books, the German art historian and archaeologist Johann Joachim Winckelmann established the idea of a white antiquity.
He conveyed the idea that a beautiful body appears more beautiful the whiter it is, despite being well aware of the colorfulness of ancient statues. And in the art context, the white cube, well described by Brian O’Doherty, has become the epitome of exhibition spaces, providing the optimal setting for representing artworks. Lastly, white skin has been regarded as superior to people of other racial or ethnic backgrounds, resulting in the ideology of white supremacy. The exhibition “The Dark Side of White” sheds a critical light on the supposedly “neutral” characteristics of white gallery spaces, clothes, statues, and skin, which have been established through Western-centric and patriarchy-influenced discourses. The show will discuss the consequences of white privilege, power, and dominance in various spheres of life and attempt to dismantle the myths, authority and dominance that the color white has asserted over the past centuries.
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
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#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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