A few sneak peeks into what occupied me mostly after February 2022 and what it brought upon us. Hashd0x — our collaborative open source and hacktivist software project and my recent work Proof Of War based on this tech stack. The work has been presented at this year's Ars Electronica festival and received S+T+ARTS Prize Honorary mention, an award initiated by the European Commission that honours projects that demonstrate the successful integration of science, technology, and art to contribute to social and economic innovation. Hashd0x & Proof of war Raspberry Pi based camera, custom-built software, mobile app, smart contract, web platform, LED screen, smartphone, server rack. Hashd0x (spelled [hæʃdɑːks]) is a tactical software, designed to combat disinformation by enabling instant and spoof-proof on-chain evidence capture and forensics tools through hashing content and data and storing it on blockchains. Proof of War showcases a 3D model of the remnants of a house in Borodyanka, the most destroyed city in the Kyiv region during the ongoing war in Ukraine. The images used to produce the photogrammetry based 3D-scan are captured via the hashd0x software on mobile and drone operated cameras. They will remain forever stored on the blockchain uncorrupted, uncensored and dated. Thereby, creating an on-chain memorial to the atrocities of war crimes and a prototype for an alternative methodology of documenting and archiving records of historical significance. The project was supported by IDSA x @arselectronica FOUNDING LAB, Polycular, European Federal Ministry, Republic of Austria Education Science and Research, European Media and Information Fund, Creative Europe programme of the European Union, @wkowien & the Austrian Blockchain Award.
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the capacities of AI models to reconstruct missing fragments of objects from classical antiquity and generate synthetic historical documents carved in stone.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.