Exhibited Work: 'New Now' Film and App
Production: CYLAND MediaArtLab (St. Petersburg, Russia) in cooperation with The WYE (Berlin, Germany)
Curated by: Leah Stuhltrager
Venue Partners: Corferias in Partnership with SOFA (Bogota, CO), Made in New York Media Center (New York City, USA), TAIGA Art Center (St. Petersburg, RU), Cine Tonala (Mexico City, MX)
The CYFEST 10 DIGITAL MEDIA PROGRAM is a curated selection of short-format video works by established and emerging artists from cities where public screenings are to be held. Curated by Leah Stuhltrager, the program spans forms of screen-based art including animated gifs, net art, virtual reality, stop-motion, performance art, gaming, vgital collage, and technology based innovation in film.
Egor Kraft in collaboration with Alexander Letsius (RU), New Now App, 2016
“New Now App” displays one enigmatic line of text running in an infinite loop: “…This very moment, has already become the past” etc. By relentlessly manifesting the present moment, the app is a monument to the irreversibility of the flow of time and the complexity of commanding attention in the digital age.
NEW NOW Video loop
CYFEST Digital Media Program | Bogota NYC St.Petersburg Mexico 2016
Exhibited Work: 'New Now' Film and App
Production: CYLAND MediaArtLab (St. Petersburg, Russia) in cooperation with The WYE (Berlin, Germany)
Curated by: Leah Stuhltrager
Venue Partners: Corferias in Partnership with SOFA (Bogota, CO), Made in New York Media Center (New York City, USA), TAIGA Art Center (St. Petersburg, RU), Cine Tonala (Mexico City, MX)
NEW NOW Video loop
The CYFEST 10 DIGITAL MEDIA PROGRAM is a curated selection of short-format video works by established and emerging artists from cities where public screenings are to be held. Curated by Leah Stuhltrager, the program spans forms of screen-based art including animated gifs, net art, virtual reality, stop-motion, performance art, gaming, vgital collage, and technology based innovation in film.
Egor Kraft in collaboration with Alexander Letsius (RU), New Now App, 2016
“New Now App” displays one enigmatic line of text running in an infinite loop: “…This very moment, has already become the past” etc. By relentlessly manifesting the present moment, the app is a monument to the irreversibility of the flow of time and the complexity of commanding attention in the digital age.
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.