On my way to Venice to present a paper and a recent work as part of the conference The Ethics and Aesthetics of Artificial Images, taking place at Iuav University and Venice International University during the opening days of the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale. Where yours truly happens to be presenting the latest work, film and paper on model collapse, oddly titled 1 & ∞ ⑁. The conference is truly promising, with an outstanding programme including such brilliant scholars as Matteo Pasquinelli, Lev Manovich @levmanovich, Antonio Somaini @antonio.somaini , Neta Alexander, Francesco D’Isa, Neil Leach, Joanna Zylinska @joanna.zylinska and many brilliant others, who will be contributing talks, discussions and reflections on the philosophical, artistic and cultural implications of AI-generated imagery - its potentials, politics and poetics. #enroute # #Cognitecture #EngineeredEpistemics #Synthetic_Cognitions #Computational_Ecologies #Networked_Sovereignties #kraftblog
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the capacities of AI models to reconstruct missing fragments of objects from classical antiquity and generate synthetic historical documents carved in stone.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.