Content Aware Studies is now on view at Charim Galerie, Dorotheergasse in Vienna, as part of the curated by_ Vienna festival — this year curated by Jules & Aët.
Marble, polyamide, machine learning algorithms, 3D scanning, 3D printing, and video installation.
Begun in 2017, this ongoing series is an inquiry into reverse-archeology using artificial neural networks and machine learning systems to reconstruct missing fragments within sculptures of classical antiquity. It also explores speculative object-oriented historicism — proposing algorithmically generated, yet historically plausible, documents of synthetic pasts that never existed.
As always, I remain deeply grateful to everyone who has contributed to this series over the years.
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the capacities of AI models to reconstruct missing fragments of objects from classical antiquity and generate synthetic historical documents carved in stone.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.