As summer draws to a close and my Weltschmerz (for lack of a better word) keeps me antisocial online, here’s a quick memo on my spring/summer movements:
11.04 @ Eindhoven, NL
→ STRP Scenario Conference x Baltan Laboratories
13.04 @ Bucharest, RO
→ One World Festival
15–19.04 @ Linz, AT
→ Workshop on AI Aesthetics @ Linz University of Art & Design
22–27.04 @ Madrid, ES
→ Postnatural Independent Program
13.05 @ Paris, FR
→ Exhibition “The Next Renaissance: Le Goût de L’invisible” @ Goethe Institute
17–21.06 @ Seattle, US
→ CVPR Conference, AI Art Gallery
17.06–05.07 @ Hangzhou, CN
→ Teaching @ Playshop, Trans-Boundary Curriculum, Liangzhu Campus, Chinese Academy of Art
Jul–Sep @ Tokyo, JP
→ Studio Work
27.09–27.11 @ Tokyo, JP
→ Ongoing Residency AWARD @ Art Center Ongoing
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the capacities of AI models to reconstruct missing fragments of objects from classical antiquity and generate synthetic historical documents carved in stone.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.