A short and cropped excerpt from Air Kiss (2017) — a film (HD, 19’38”) accompanied by a website and book. The project was produced during our participation in The New Normal, a research programme at the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design, directed by Benjamin Bratton. The film was a collaborative effort between Alina Kvirkveliya, Pavel Semyonovich (pxkkx), Karina Golubenko, and myself.
Air Kiss explores a speculative near-future in which governance has been largely outsourced to artificial intelligence. The backdrop of the narrative outlines a strategy for decentralised AI-governance systems. It raises questions about the sociopolitical, cultural, and spatial implications of a world where computation has become the environmental condition itself. When algorithms predict, decide, and even mediate inner dialogues, what remains of personal agency? The envisioned system is a real-time, universally fair democracy that operates by continuously polling users through behaviour and active input, shaping cities and landscapes algorithmically.
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the capacities of AI models to reconstruct missing fragments of objects from classical antiquity and generate synthetic historical documents carved in stone.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.