Exhibited Works: CAS_12.1 Caryatid Portrait, CAS_05 Julia Mamea, CAS_V08 Deep Portrait: 12 channel version, CAS_13.2 Augmented Hercules
Duration: 05.05–29.05.2022
Event type: Group Show
Organizer: S+T+ARTS, European Commission
Venue: Bologna, Italy
NEAR + FUTURES + QUASI + WORLDS emphasizes the vital role that collaboration in science, technology and art can play in investigating the complexities of the contemporary world, as well as promoting the most innovative forms of contemporary artistic creation. The project wants to invite citizens, institutions, industry stakeholders, and the creative community to explore the key role that art-driven collaboration and transversal knowledge production are meant to play in a society where the fundamentals of future life need to be entirely reassessed.
Exhibition view
Exhibited Works: CAS_12.1 Caryatid Portrait, CAS_05 Julia Mamea, CAS_V08 Deep Portrait: 12 channel version, CAS_13.2 Augmented Hercules
Duration: 05.05–29.05.2022
Event type: Group Show
Organizer: S+T+ARTS, European Commission
Venue: Bologna, Italy
Exhibition view
NEAR + FUTURES + QUASI + WORLDS emphasizes the vital role that collaboration in science, technology and art can play in investigating the complexities of the contemporary world, as well as promoting the most innovative forms of contemporary artistic creation. The project wants to invite citizens, institutions, industry stakeholders, and the creative community to explore the key role that art-driven collaboration and transversal knowledge production are meant to play in a society where the fundamentals of future life need to be entirely reassessed.
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the capacities of AI models to reconstruct missing fragments of objects from classical antiquity and generate synthetic historical documents carved in stone.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.