Exhibited Works: CAS_V05 Synthetic Portrait: Vertical Version, CAS_V08 Deep Portrait: 12 channel version, CAS_04 Parthenon_South_XI_31, CAS_10 Telephos Drapery, CAS_V06 Parthenon Frieze Misconstructions, CAS_V01 Parthenon Frieze Latent Space, CAS_13.2 Augmented Hercules, CAS_12.1 Caryatid Portrait
Duration: 27.11–29.02.2020
Event type: Solo show
Organizer: Ars Electronica
Venue: Moscow, Russia
Egor Kraft works at the intersection of arts, media, technology, film, critical design and research. Egor's work finds itself on the boundary between reality and its virtual misrepresentation, involving artificial information systems, computational technologies, films, and interventions often in conjunction with traditional media. As part of his research-based practice, he tends to develop speculative narratives questioning the co-existence of human irrational reasoning and ubiquitous impartial and quantitative orders rendered by machinic agency and technologies of today and tomorrow.
Structures of exponentially increasing capacities, synthetic intelligence, data monopolies as power structures, ubiquitous mechanic analysis and interpretation, planetary-scale computation, techno-politics vs geopolitics, speculative crypto-economies, DNA design and genetic machine developments – all these and many other cognitive perspectives reconstitute the aspect of human and a new geological epoch.
In how far is the human aspect subject to technology? To what degree and from what viewpoint is the human aspect autonomous, unpredictable, faulty, or irrational? How shall this human aspect coexist along with the precise, ubiquitous machinic automated organisation? Having once seen the surface under a microscope, we will never again see it as we knew it before. How may we redefine the ‘human’ after seeing the world through the lens other synthetic forms of perception and thinking? Investigating these political, ethical, philosophical and aesthetic questions constitutes new challenges for artistic production, as a primarily ‘human’ project.
Exhibition View
CAS_V05 Synthetic Portrait: Vertical Version
CAS_V08 Deep Portrait: 12 channel version
CAS_V08 Deep Portrait: 12 channel version
CAS_04 Parthenon_South_XI_31
CAS_10 Telephos Drapery
CAS_V01 Parthenon Frieze Latent Space and CAS_05 Julia Mamea
CAS_V06 Parhtenon Frieze Misconstructions
Exhibited Works: CAS_V05 Synthetic Portrait: Vertical Version, CAS_V08 Deep Portrait: 12 channel version, CAS_04 Parthenon_South_XI_31, CAS_10 Telephos Drapery, CAS_V06 Parthenon Frieze Misconstructions, CAS_V01 Parthenon Frieze Latent Space, CAS_13.2 Augmented Hercules, CAS_12.1 Caryatid Portrait
Duration: 27.11–29.02.2020
Event type: Solo show
Organizer: Ars Electronica
Venue: Moscow, Russia
Exhibition View
CAS_V05 Synthetic Portrait: Vertical Version
CAS_V08 Deep Portrait: 12 channel version
CAS_V08 Deep Portrait: 12 channel version
CAS_04 Parthenon_South_XI_31
CAS_10 Telephos Drapery
CAS_V01 Parthenon Frieze Latent Space and CAS_05 Julia Mamea
CAS_V06 Parhtenon Frieze Misconstructions
Egor Kraft works at the intersection of arts, media, technology, film, critical design and research. Egor's work finds itself on the boundary between reality and its virtual misrepresentation, involving artificial information systems, computational technologies, films, and interventions often in conjunction with traditional media. As part of his research-based practice, he tends to develop speculative narratives questioning the co-existence of human irrational reasoning and ubiquitous impartial and quantitative orders rendered by machinic agency and technologies of today and tomorrow.
Structures of exponentially increasing capacities, synthetic intelligence, data monopolies as power structures, ubiquitous mechanic analysis and interpretation, planetary-scale computation, techno-politics vs geopolitics, speculative crypto-economies, DNA design and genetic machine developments – all these and many other cognitive perspectives reconstitute the aspect of human and a new geological epoch.
In how far is the human aspect subject to technology? To what degree and from what viewpoint is the human aspect autonomous, unpredictable, faulty, or irrational? How shall this human aspect coexist along with the precise, ubiquitous machinic automated organisation? Having once seen the surface under a microscope, we will never again see it as we knew it before. How may we redefine the ‘human’ after seeing the world through the lens other synthetic forms of perception and thinking? Investigating these political, ethical, philosophical and aesthetic questions constitutes new challenges for artistic production, as a primarily ‘human’ project.
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
Content Aware Studies
The New Color
Model Collapse Studies
Tactical Archiving
Exonomics
Air Kiss
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Interpoesis
Auto-Esthetic Simulations
Early Work Archive
#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.
#Cyberdolia #Infollution #Autoesthetics #Engistemics
A text-to-image AI model was given the prompt “A single chair on a white background.” After six iterations of retraining on its own outputs, the autocannibalised model lost ability to produce realistic chair images, but non-figurative digital noise instead. Thus revealing model collapse and its fragility to recursive data feedback loops.
#Autoesthtics #Cyberdolia #Engistemics
2025.
Written for Moscow Art Magazine №127
The essay explores the parallels between errors in AI image recognition and biases in human visual perception. It illustrates how both AI and humans misinterpret patterns for reasons that are both similar and different.
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