Exhibited Works: CAS_04 Parthenon_South_XI_31, CAS_V04 Hellenistic Portrait, CAS_08 Hellenistic Ruler, CAS_V08 Deep Portrait: 12-channel version
Duration: 28.11.2018-17.02.2019
Event type: Group show
Curator: Dmitry Bulatov
Organizer: PERMM
Venue: PERMM , Perm, Russia
Presented within the famework of “THE NEW STATE OF THE LIVING” exhibition are artworks by Russian and international authors specializing in the field of contemporary technological art. The distinguishing characteristic of these works is a synthesis of artistic disciplines and scientific and technical developments. In this project, art presents itself before us a holistic creative practice which, alongside the utilization of the newest 21st century means – robotics, informational technologies and biomedicine – contains a not insignificant portion of “unscientific” elements: intuitions, metaphors and assumptions.
All the pieces that are included here as points of departure for conceptualization and figuration utilize the principles of fusing the “natural” and the “technological”, and they muster up in the exhibition into a play of interrelationships in which autonomy and creativity are not regarded to be attributes of only the human. The artists describe this complex of emerging in time, partially intersecting human and technical objects, by using such metaphors as “the flow of becoming” and the universal “vital impulse” – locating in these the elements of the new state of the living. The purpose of this project is to illustrate the kinds of work that artists undertake in their search for the means to “capture” this emerging novelty – work that is no less significant than that which is done for us by science and technology, history and philosophy of art.
Exhibition view, 2018
Exhibited Works: CAS_04 Parthenon_South_XI_31, CAS_V04 Hellenistic Portrait, CAS_08 Hellenistic Ruler, CAS_V08 Deep Portrait: 12-channel version
Duration: 28.11.2018-17.02.2019
Event type: Group show
Curator: Dmitry Bulatov
Organizer: PERMM
Venue: PERMM , Perm, Russia
Exhibition view, 2018
Presented within the famework of “THE NEW STATE OF THE LIVING” exhibition are artworks by Russian and international authors specializing in the field of contemporary technological art. The distinguishing characteristic of these works is a synthesis of artistic disciplines and scientific and technical developments. In this project, art presents itself before us a holistic creative practice which, alongside the utilization of the newest 21st century means – robotics, informational technologies and biomedicine – contains a not insignificant portion of “unscientific” elements: intuitions, metaphors and assumptions.
All the pieces that are included here as points of departure for conceptualization and figuration utilize the principles of fusing the “natural” and the “technological”, and they muster up in the exhibition into a play of interrelationships in which autonomy and creativity are not regarded to be attributes of only the human. The artists describe this complex of emerging in time, partially intersecting human and technical objects, by using such metaphors as “the flow of becoming” and the universal “vital impulse” – locating in these the elements of the new state of the living. The purpose of this project is to illustrate the kinds of work that artists undertake in their search for the means to “capture” this emerging novelty – work that is no less significant than that which is done for us by science and technology, history and philosophy of 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.