Open Codes
Karlsruhe, DEU, 2019
Exhibited Works: Content Aware Studies dataset, Content Aware Studies generative deep portrait, CAS_06.2 Female Portrait, CAS_07 Telephos Frieze, CAS_05 Julia Mamea
Duration: 20 October 2017 – 2 June 2019
Event type: Group show
Curator: Peter Weibel
Organizer: ZKM
Venue: ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
The second phase of the Open Codes exhibition, titled Open Codes. The World as a Field of Data, explores the profound ways in which contemporary life is structured, mediated, and driven by digital information. Moving beyond the first phase, Open Codes. Living in Digital Worlds, which investigated examples of codes ranging from Morse to genetic sequences, this iteration situates data itself as the central lens for understanding the modern world.
The exhibition presents artworks that interrogate the pervasive role of algorithms, machine learning, and automated systems in shaping society, culture, and perception. Visitors encounter a spectrum of practices—from generative portraits and interactive datasets to sculptural interventions - each reflecting on the tension between human agency and the increasingly autonomous logic of computational environments. By highlighting how personal, social, and institutional behaviors are encoded and regulated through data, the show examines questions of privacy, surveillance, authorship, and representation in an era where every interaction leaves a trace in vast digital fields.
Open Codes frames the world as a constantly evolving informational ecosystem, where the visible and invisible interplay to define contemporary experience, and invites audiences to reflect on the ethical, aesthetic, and epistemological challenges posed by the ubiquitous presence of data.
Installation view of Content Aware Studies at ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2017–2019.
Open Codes
Karlsruhe, DEU, 2019
Exhibited Works: Content Aware Studies dataset, Content Aware Studies generative deep portrait, CAS_06.2 Female Portrait, CAS_07 Telephos Frieze, CAS_05 Julia Mamea
Duration: 20 October 2017 – 2 June 2019
Event type: Group show
Curator: Peter Weibel
Organizer: ZKM
Venue: ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
The second phase of the Open Codes exhibition, titled Open Codes. The World as a Field of Data, explores the profound ways in which contemporary life is structured, mediated, and driven by digital information. Moving beyond the first phase, Open Codes. Living in Digital Worlds, which investigated examples of codes ranging from Morse to genetic sequences, this iteration situates data itself as the central lens for understanding the modern world.
The exhibition presents artworks that interrogate the pervasive role of algorithms, machine learning, and automated systems in shaping society, culture, and perception. Visitors encounter a spectrum of practices—from generative portraits and interactive datasets to sculptural interventions - each reflecting on the tension between human agency and the increasingly autonomous logic of computational environments. By highlighting how personal, social, and institutional behaviors are encoded and regulated through data, the show examines questions of privacy, surveillance, authorship, and representation in an era where every interaction leaves a trace in vast digital fields.
Open Codes frames the world as a constantly evolving informational ecosystem, where the visible and invisible interplay to define contemporary experience, and invites audiences to reflect on the ethical, aesthetic, and epistemological challenges posed by the ubiquitous presence of data.
Installation view of Content Aware Studies at ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2017–2019.
Studio Addresses
Tokyo, Mishuku, JPN
Vienna, Neubau, AUT
Studio
Egor Kraft – artist-researcher, founder
Anna Kraft – researcher, director
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mail[at]kraft.studio
Studio Addresses
Tokyo, Mishuku, JPN
Vienna, Neubau, AUT
Contact
mail[at]kraft.studio
Downloads
Studio
Egor Kraft – artist-researcher, founder
Anna Kraft – researcher, director
