I couldn’t write about it before. Witnessing the full-scale invasion in early 2022 left me speechless — and honestly, I still am. What began then has only spiraled further into a humanitarian catastrophe, one we must not allow to become normalised.
In the midst of this horror, I tried to stay sane through activist and artistic work. One such project, Content Aware Studies, received the New Technological Art Jury Award in 2022 and was later exhibited in Ghent. I’m humbled it stood alongside such exceptional work and in the company of artists I’ve admired for years — including past nominees like Sol LeWitt, Nam June Paik, and Chris Cunningham.
The award returns this year. I wish the best to all the artists involved. I remain deeply grateful to those who supported CAS and its unfolding.
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the capacities of AI models to reconstruct missing fragments of objects from classical antiquity and generate synthetic historical documents carved in stone.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.