Exhibited Works: Chinese Ink Series
Duration: 06.06–07.07.2019
Event type: Group Show
Curator: Dmitry Ozerkov
Organizer: The State Hermitage Museum
Venue: The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
The exhibition is organized by The State Hermitage Museum and The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, within The Hermitage 20/21 project. It will be launched during this year’s St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) and will be a part of the forum’s cultural program. Fourteen artists and creative teams from ten different countries are taking part in the exhibition.
AI technology is used to process large bulks of data, including images. In the last few years, the use of AI has helped to achieve revolutionary results in cybersecurity, banking and marketing due to the facial recognition technology.
Exhibition view
'Chinese Ink' installation fragment
'Chinese Ink' installation fragment
'Chinese Ink' installation fragment
'Chinese Ink' installation fragment
Exhibited Works: Chinese Ink Series
Duration: 06.06–07.07.2019
Event type: Group Show
Curator: Dmitry Ozerkov
Organizer: The State Hermitage Museum
Venue: The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Exhibition view
'Chinese Ink' installation fragment
'Chinese Ink' installation fragment
'Chinese Ink' installation fragment
'Chinese Ink' installation fragment
The exhibition is organized by The State Hermitage Museum and The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, within The Hermitage 20/21 project. It will be launched during this year’s St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) and will be a part of the forum’s cultural program. Fourteen artists and creative teams from ten different countries are taking part in the exhibition.
AI technology is used to process large bulks of data, including images. In the last few years, the use of AI has helped to achieve revolutionary results in cybersecurity, banking and marketing due to the facial recognition technology.
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.
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#Infodemics #Infollution #Knowlegistics #EngineeredTruth
Initiated in 2011, ongoing.
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