Exhibited Works: Content Aware Studies series, 'I print, Therefore I Am' video installation
Duration: 09.10–17.10 2019
Event type: Prize Show
Organizer: BREUS Foundation
Venue: MOMMA, Moscow, Russia
Exhibition of the 12th Kandinsky Prize nominees.
The exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art's Petrovka building showcases thirty art projects that were shortlisted for the Prize after two rounds of voting by the expert council. In the main nomination ‘Project of the Year’ 15 works are presented, 10 belong to young artists and 5 books claim to be the best research in the field of history and theory of contemporary art.
Egor Kraft in front of Content Aware Studies sculptures, 2019. Credit: Press archives
Exhibited Works: Content Aware Studies series, 'I print, Therefore I Am' video installation
Duration: 09.10–17.10 2019
Event type: Prize Show
Organizer: BREUS Foundation
Venue: MOMMA, Moscow, Russia
Egor Kraft in front of Content Aware Studies sculptures, 2019. Credit: Press archives
Exhibition of the 12th Kandinsky Prize nominees.
The exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art's Petrovka building showcases thirty art projects that were shortlisted for the Prize after two rounds of voting by the expert council. In the main nomination ‘Project of the Year’ 15 works are presented, 10 belong to young artists and 5 books claim to be the best research in the field of history and theory of contemporary art.
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the capacities of AI models to reconstruct missing fragments of objects from classical antiquity and generate synthetic historical documents carved in stone.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.