2015–2016.
Plexiglass, steel, led, 360-degree web-camera.
Website: http://this-is-the.link/between/the/real-and-virtual
Hashterms
The three-metre-long metal and plexiglass object with LED-illuminated text is intended for display in public spaces. A 360-degree camera on a tripod is positioned in front of it. The text is a URL and a sentence: http://this-is-the.link/between/the/real-and-virtual. The URL suggests the web link is active. Visiting it leads to a webpage with a live, 360-degree panoramic video stream of the object’s display site. By visiting the URL, the spectator effectively re-enacts the link’s text, appearing simultaneously in both the real and virtual situations, or as the artist puts it, in the ‘virtureal’ dimension.
The three-metre-long object is made of metal and plexiglass, with LED-illuminated text engraved into it. It is intended for display in various public spaces, alongside a 360-degree camera positioned on a tripod in front of it. The text is both a URL and a complete sentence stating –
http://this-is-the.link/between/the/real-and-virtual.
The syntax of the URL suggests that the web link is active. Visiting the URL leads to a webpage featuring a live, 360-degree panoramic video stream of the site on which the object is displayed. By visiting the URL, the spectator effectively re-enacts the transition manifested in the link's text, appearing simultaneously in both the real situation and its virtual replica, or perhaps more accurately, in between the two. This demonstrates how the two dimensions inform each other through displacement and intertwining, which is what the artists' self-coined term 'virtureal' describes.
'The Link' video documentation, 2015
Art Prospect festival, St. Petersburg RUS, 2017
Wimbergergasse, Vienna AUT, 2020
2015–2016.
Plexiglass, steel, led, 360-degree web-camera.
Website: http://this-is-the.link/between/the/real-and-virtual
Hashterms
The three-metre-long metal and plexiglass object with LED-illuminated text is intended for display in public spaces. A 360-degree camera on a tripod is positioned in front of it. The text is a URL and a sentence: http://this-is-the.link/between/the/real-and-virtual. The URL suggests the web link is active. Visiting it leads to a webpage with a live, 360-degree panoramic video stream of the object’s display site. By visiting the URL, the spectator effectively re-enacts the link’s text, appearing simultaneously in both the real and virtual situations, or as the artist puts it, in the ‘virtureal’ dimension.
The three-metre-long object is made of metal and plexiglass, with LED-illuminated text engraved into it. It is intended for display in various public spaces, alongside a 360-degree camera positioned on a tripod in front of it. The text is both a URL and a complete sentence stating –
http://this-is-the.link/between/the/real-and-virtual.
The syntax of the URL suggests that the web link is active. Visiting the URL leads to a webpage featuring a live, 360-degree panoramic video stream of the site on which the object is displayed. By visiting the URL, the spectator effectively re-enacts the transition manifested in the link's text, appearing simultaneously in both the real situation and its virtual replica, or perhaps more accurately, in between the two. This demonstrates how the two dimensions inform each other through displacement and intertwining, which is what the artists' self-coined term 'virtureal' describes.
'The Link' video documentation, 2015
Art Prospect festival, St. Petersburg RUS, 2017
Wimbergergasse, Vienna AUT, 2020
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.