I am massively honoured to have my work on the exterior and interior of the Jeu De Paume, Paris @jeudepaumeparis as part of ‘The World According to AI’ brilliantly welded together by Antonio Somaini (@antoniosomaini), with associate curators Ada Ackerman, Alexandre Gefen, and Pia Viewing. Exhibition artists include Nora Al-Badri, Nouf Aljowaysir, Jean-Pierre Balpe, Patsy Baudoin and Nick Montfort, Samuel Bianchini, Erik Bullot, Victor Burgin, Julian Charrière, Grégory Chatonsky, Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler, Linda Dounia Rebeiz, Justine Emard, Estampa, Harun Farocki, Joan Fontcuberta, Dora Garcia, Jeff Guess, Adam Harvey, Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst, Hervé Huitric and Monique Nahas, David Jhave Johnston, Andrea Khôra, Agnieszka Kurant, George Legrady, Christian Marclay, John Menick, Meta Office, Trevor Paglen, Jacques Perconte, Julien Prévieux, Inès Sieulle, Hito Steyerl, Sasha Stiles, Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert and Alexia Achilleos, aurece vettier, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Gwenola Wagon and yours truly.
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the capacities of AI models to reconstruct missing fragments of objects from classical antiquity and generate synthetic historical documents carved in stone.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.