Exhibited Works: CAS_13.2 Augmented Hercules, CAS Film
Duration: 20.04–07.04.2019
Event type: Prize show
Organizer: Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Center
Venue: Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Center, St. Petersburg, Russia
Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award exhibition featuring several CYLAND MediaArtLab artists and projects opened in St. Petersburg. This year, CYFEST was named the Best Festival in the Field of Contemporary Art at the ceremony that took place at the second stage of Tovstonogov Big Drama Theatre. One of the goals of the Art Award is to find and support promising artists, curators and musicians, to raise the status of contemporary art and to integrate it into international cultural life. Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award is specifically focused on the principles of the «Popular Mechanics»: provocation, performance, improvisation and unexpectedness. Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award commemorates the synthesis of various forms of art, the search for new meanings and the revolutionary courage – the only kind that can change the world.
Exhibition view, 2019
Exhibition view, 2019
Exhibited Works: CAS_13.2 Augmented Hercules, CAS Film
Duration: 20.04–07.04.2019
Event type: Prize show
Organizer: Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Center
Venue: Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Center, St. Petersburg, Russia
Exhibition view, 2019
Exhibition view, 2019
Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award exhibition featuring several CYLAND MediaArtLab artists and projects opened in St. Petersburg. This year, CYFEST was named the Best Festival in the Field of Contemporary Art at the ceremony that took place at the second stage of Tovstonogov Big Drama Theatre. One of the goals of the Art Award is to find and support promising artists, curators and musicians, to raise the status of contemporary art and to integrate it into international cultural life. Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award is specifically focused on the principles of the «Popular Mechanics»: provocation, performance, improvisation and unexpectedness. Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award commemorates the synthesis of various forms of art, the search for new meanings and the revolutionary courage – the only kind that can change the world.
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.