Egor Kraft is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher working with ideas, objects, texts, ¤moving image and sound; his interest spans aesthetics of industrialisation©, shock-and-awe ©ampaigns, tactical trickery shuttle between fact and speculation, fully automated ruralisms, speculative narratives≠, thought-Õbjects prototypes, deep timescales, proto-continental geographies, self-declared enclaves® and self~sovereign network systems, ultra-wideband wireless planetary connectivity, exponentially increasing capacities{}, monopolised™ data echo chambers, geology of media, logistics of information superhighways, their domain ontologies, crude materials for •planetary computation assembly, synthetic cognition and sensation, epistemic focal biases, quantitative machine-rendered∷ regimes, nonhuman agencies, rhythms of low-pitch corrupt data sounds, ultrasonic interventions, big-time proposals, ambient security protocols, recoding and rewiring storage architectures, unfettered bulk data collection powers of wholesale surveillance, bypassing corporate hardware monopolies, unstable climates, seriously old remnants and existential feedback loops
Egor Kraft is an interdisciplinary artist working with ideas, objects, moving image, sound and texts; his interest spans #aesthetics of industrialisation, Shock-and-awe campaigns, ∷tactical trickery between facts & fiction, →fully automated ruralisms, ☼︎️speculative narratives, ◉thought-objects prototypes, ↨deep timescales, ░proto-continental geographies, ☑self-declared enclaves & ✓self-sovereign network systems, ╫ultra-wideband wireless planetary connectivity, ↔exponentially increasing capacities, ¤monopolised data echo chambers, *geology of media, ═logistics of information superhighways, ○content & ●domain ontologies, ■crude materials for techno-organic bodies, øpolitics of planetarity, ◊synthetic cognition and sensation, ≈epistemic focal biases, ☐quantitative machine-rendered regimes, …non-human agencies, low frequency sounds of corrupt data streams, ultrasonic interventions, ⁄big-time proposals, ()ambient security protocols, †rewiring memory architectures, unfettered bulk data collection regimes & wholesale surveillance™, ©digital autocracy circumvention, ®unstable climates, ±open-source hardware, ¿seriously old remnants and ∞existential feedback loops
Egor Kraft is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher working with ideas, objects, texts, ¤moving image and sound; his interest spans aesthetics of industrialisation©, shock-and-awe ©ampaigns, tactical trickery shuttle between fact and speculation, fully automated ruralisms, speculative narratives≠, thought-Õbjects prototypes, deep timescales, proto-continental geographies, self-declared enclaves® and self~sovereign network systems, ultra-wideband wireless planetary connectivity, exponentially increasing capacities{}, monopolised™ data echo chambers, geology of media, logistics of information superhighways, their domain ontologies, crude materials for •planetary computation assembly, synthetic cognition and sensation, epistemic focal biases, quantitative machine-rendered∷ regimes, nonhuman agencies, rhythms of low-pitch corrupt data sounds, ultrasonic interventions, big-time proposals, ambient security protocols, recoding and rewiring storage architectures, unfettered bulk data collection powers of wholesale surveillance, bypassing corporate hardware monopolies, unstable climates, seriously old remnants and existential feedback loops
2022
NTAA’22, New Technological Art Award at Zebrastraat Ghent, BEL
He Aprendido Que Tienes Que Rezar Por Lo Que No Conoces at Sala Amós Salvador, Logroño, ESP
NEAR+FUTURES+QUASI+WORLDS at Palazzo Borsa, Bologna, ITA
Things at ART4 Museum, Moscow, RUS
Everything will be fine at Tactical Tech, Berlin, DEU
Codes and algorithms. Wisdom in a calculated world at Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid, ESP
Navigating the Digital Realm at DG Connect, Brussels, BEL
2021
Millennials in Contemporary Russian Art at Russian Museum, St.Petersburg RUS
Writing The History of the Future at ZKM, Karlsruhe, DEU
Re:Humanism 2 at MAXXI Museo Nazionale Delle Arti, Rome, ITA
You & AI: Through the Algorithmic Lens at Onassis Foundation, Athens, GRC
OSMOS, Fluid aesthetics in Electromuseum, Moscow, RUS
Charon Cycle Screening at Tick Tack, Antwerp, BEL
Content Aware Studies at Alexander Levy, Berlin, DEU
Human (un)limited at Ars Electronica Export, Moscow, RUS
2018
Cyfest 11 at Stieglitz Academy, St.Petersburg, RUS
Innovation as Method at Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg, RUS
Vienna Contemporary, Solo Booth at Vienna, AUT
Future Unhuman at Quartariata Residency, St.Petersburg, RUS
Ákkta at Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg, RUS
Open Codes at ZKM, Karlsruhe, DEU
Ars Electronica at The Galleries, Linz, AUT
Impakt Festival at Utrecht, NLD
2017
The New Normal Showcase at Strelka Institute, Moscow, RUS
Still Human | Colección Solo, Madrid, ESP |
Chaos Measure | Tsk19, Novosibirsk, RUS |
Accrochage | alexanderlevy gallery, Berlin, DEU |
2023
Acting Department Head (Permanent Head on Sabbatical) | Design Academy Eindhoven The Critical inquiry Lab | Eindhoven, NL |
Design Academy Eindhoven The Critical Inquiry Lab | Tutor / Master Thesis Mentorship | Eindhoven, NL |