Exhibited works: CAS_09 Colossal Head of Hercules, CAS_V01 Parthenon Frieze Latent Space, CAS_13.2 Augmented Hercules, CAS_12.1 Caryatid Portrait, CAS_05 Julia Mamea, CAS_06.2 Female Portrait, CAS_07 Telephos Frieze, CAS_V11 Deep Portrait, CAS_04 Parthenon_South_XI_31, CAS_V03 Deep Portrait: 6 channel version
Duration: 09.03–13.04.2019
Event type: Solo show
Organizer: alexanderlevy Gallery
Venue: Berlin, Germany
Content Aware Studies is based on generative and algorithmic reconstructions of the lost fragments in friezes and statues of Late Antiquity and the Hellenistic period. The sculptures are generated by machine learning algorithms, which are designed to fill and reconstruct areas of images as well as 3-D models where parts of sculptures have been lost or are missing. This process constitutes quasi-archaeological knowledge production and interpretations of history and culture in the era of ubiquitous computation.
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Exhibited works: CAS_09 Colossal Head of Hercules, CAS_V01 Parthenon Frieze Latent Space, CAS_13.2 Augmented Hercules, CAS_12.1 Caryatid Portrait, CAS_05 Julia Mamea, CAS_06.2 Female Portrait, CAS_07 Telephos Frieze, CAS_V11 Deep Portrait, CAS_04 Parthenon_South_XI_31, CAS_V03 Deep Portrait: 6 channel version
Duration: 09.03–13.04.2019
Event type: Solo show
Organizer: alexanderlevy Gallery
Venue: Berlin, Germany
Exhibition view
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Content Aware Studies is based on generative and algorithmic reconstructions of the lost fragments in friezes and statues of Late Antiquity and the Hellenistic period. The sculptures are generated by machine learning algorithms, which are designed to fill and reconstruct areas of images as well as 3-D models where parts of sculptures have been lost or are missing. This process constitutes quasi-archaeological knowledge production and interpretations of history and culture in the era of ubiquitous computation.
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.