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The Press page features an archive of publications and various public materials featuring Kraft's work and interviews across books, magazines, videos, academic papers and more.

2026

Stunned by | Interview with Antonio Somaini, curator of the exhibition "The world according to AI"Feature

Stunned by | Interview with Antonio Somaini, curator of the exhibition The world according to AI.

ArtMajeur, online magazine

In The World According to AI at the Jeu de Paume, curator Antonio Somaini brings together contemporary artists - featuring the Content Aware Studies Series - to examine how AI reshapes vision, memory, and artistic creation.

2025

Investigating Decentralized Action in ArtFeature

Investigating Decentralized Action in Art

Baltan Laboratories

The book compiles essays, conversations, and artworks exploring how artists engage AI and decentralized technologies to reflect on infrastructures, extractive logics, and alternative economies.

The World through AI: Exploring Latent SpacesArticle

The World through AI: Exploring Latent Spaces

JBE Books

On the intersections of art and artificial intelligence, with contributions from Nick Montfort, Antonio Somaini and Quentin Bajac.

Jeu de Paume puts on wide-ranging survey of work created by artists working with artificial intelligence.Feature

Jeu de Paume puts on wide-ranging survey of work created by artists working with Artificial Intelligence

The Art Newspaper

The article reports that the Jeu de Paume exhibition Le Monde Selon L’IA (“The World Through AI”) presents a comprehensive survey of contemporary art engaging both analytical and generative AI, pairing historical context with critical works that explore social, environmental, and technological impacts of artificial intelligence.

Wo KI-Kunst 2025 wirklich stehtFeature

Jeu de Paume puts on wide-ranging survey of work created by artists working with Artificial Intelligence

Parnass

The PARNASS article explains that the Jeu de Paume exhibition offers a broad overview of the development of AI art - bringing together historical context and critical works that reveal both the creative potentials and societal blind spots of AI, prompting reflection on how machines shape images, power structures, labour and meaning in the digital age.

At the Jeu de Paume, AI in all its formsFeature

At the Jeu de Paume, AI in all its forms

La French Touch

The La French Touch article describes how Le Monde selon l’IA at the Jeu de Paume immerses visitors in a critical artistic exploration of AI’s impact - showing works that use generative models and latent spaces to probe biases, environmental costs, language, and alternative imaginaries, without technological fascination or fear, but with reflective depth.

The World Through AI. Essay by Warren NeidichFeature

The World Through AI. Essay by Warren Neidich

Zerodeux

The Zérodeux article frames The World Through AI at the Jeu de Paume as a sprawling exhibition that uses contemporary art to critique how AI and cognitive capitalism reshape labour, cognition, memory, and power - and positions artists as active agents exposing and challenging entrenched systems rather than passive observers.

2023

Cryptomania: Promises of the BlockchainArticle

'Cryptomania: Promises of the Blockchain' by Barbara Unterthurner

Eikon

The issue, published alongside the Cryptomania: Promises of the Blockchain exhibition at the Zeppelin Museum, explores the cultural and artistic dimensions of blockchain, featuring Egor Kraft and his work on cryptographic systems, authorship, and digital trust within contemporary media art.

BeeldrijmFeature

Beeldrijm

Uitgeverij Komma

The book collects over six years of the Beeldrijm column from Het Parool, pairing contemporary artworks - including those by Egor Kraft, Wes Anderson, William Kentridge, and others - with archival photographs to explore image‑rhyme, memory, and the dialogue between art and photography.

Êtes-vous normal ? pas très normal ? tout à fait normal ? Réponse dans l’expo Code & Algorithms chez iMALArticle

Êtes-vous normal ? pas très normal ? tout à fait normal ? Réponse dans l’expo Code & Algorithms chez iMAL

RTBF Actus

The RTBF article reports that the Code & Algorithms. Wisdom in a Calculated World exhibition at iMAL uses interactive artworks to make visible how algorithms shape everyday life and prompt visitors to question assumptions about normality, neutrality, bias, data privacy, and human–machine relations.

Lumen Prize WinnersArticle

Lumen Prize Winners

Crypto Art Award

The 2023 Lumen Prize included the Crypto Art Award winner Egor Kraft for his project Proof of War, recognising his work addressing misinformation and propaganda through technical and artistic proposals at the intersection of art and technology.

The artist in a science labInterview

The artist in a science lab

Le Monde Diplomatique

The Le Monde diplomatique article The artist in the science lab highlights how the Europe‑wide S+T+ARTS programme supports artists working with science and technology, noting Egor Kraft’s Content Aware Studies series that uses AI and 3D printing to explore machine learning’s reconstruction of damaged antiquities.

Die Mystik der VerschlüsselungArticle

Die Mystik der Verschlüsselung

Kulturmagazin

In the Kulturmagazin article Die Mystik der Verschlüsselung, Egor Kraft explores the philosophical tensions of AI through projects like Content Awareness Studies, using machine learning to reconstruct lost historical artifacts while highlighting the risks of meaningless or synthetic outputs that challenge our trust in historical documentation.

Poetics of Encryption. Art and the TechnoceneFeature

Poetics of Encryption. Art and the Technocene

Book by Nadim Samman

Poetics of Encryption: Art and the Technocene by Nadim Samman critically examines how 21st‑century art engages with the technosphere, exploring themes of confinement, access, and exclusion within encrypted infrastructures, and tracing a counterintuitive aesthetic across caves, cables, codes, satellites, and icons.

The Prix Ars Electronica 2023 CatalogueFeature

The Prix Ars Electronica 2023

Award Catalogue

The Prix Ars Electronica  2023 Catalogue is the official documentation of one of the world’s longest‑running and most prestigious media art competitions, presenting a curated overview of the award‑winning works, finalists, and juried selections from the 2023 Prix Ars Electronica.

2022

Lies, Half-Truths & Propaganda: Egor Kraft’s anti-disinformation machinesArticle

Lies, Half-Truths & Propaganda: Egor Kraft’s anti-disinformation machines

The Berliner

The Berliner article describes how Egor Kraft used blockchain‑based anti‑disinformation tools like Uncensorship Architecture and the Hashd0x app in his Lies, Half‑Truths & Propaganda exhibition to explore ways of resisting censorship and propaganda by decentralising and cryptographically securing journalistic material.

Feature article on NTAAFeature

NTAA’22 - Technologische kunst of kunstzinnige technologie

OKV Magazine

The OKV article NTAA’22 - Technologische kunst of kunstzinnige technologie highlights the New Technological Art Award biennial in Zebrastraat, Ghent, where international nominees - including Egor Kraft’s Content Aware Studies Series - showcase innovative intersections of contemporary art and cutting‑edge technology.

Recycling BeautyFeature

Recycling Beauty

Fondazione Prada

Recycling Beauty is the catalogue for the Fondazione Prada exhibition, exploring the reuse of Greek and Roman antiquities from the Middle Ages to the Baroque through essays, analyses, and visual documentation.

E-RelevanceFeature

E-Relevance. The Role of Arts and Culture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Council of Europe

E-Relevance: The Role of Arts and Culture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence is an edited anthology compiling critical texts and artworks that examine AI’s societal and cultural impacts, offering expert perspectives on algorithms, knowledge, and artistic practice during a pivotal moment of technological transition.

What does art bring to science and technology?Article

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What does art bring to science and technology?

Bijutsu Techo Magazine

The Bijutsu Techo article アートは科学とテクノロジーに何をもたらすのか？ reports on a Brussels networking event for the EU’s S+T+ARTS (Science, Technology & the ARTS) initiative, where artists, scientists and technologists showcased collaborative projects that integrate art with science and technology to open new human‑centred research and innovation possibilities.

Intelligence in ArtArticle

Intelligence in Art

Art Press

Art Press Issue 492 (2022) examines the intersection of AI, computer vision, and contemporary art, featuring Dominique Moulon’s discussion of form‑recognition neural networks in artistic practice.

The Practice of Art & AIFeature

The Practice of Art and Ai

Hatje Cantz

The Practice of Art and AI (2022), edited by Andreas J. Hirsch, Gerfried Stocker, and Markus Jandl, is a multidisciplinary volume from the European ARTificial Intelligence Lab and Ars Electronica, presenting essays, artist and researcher profiles.

He aprendido que tienes que rezar por lo que no conoces Obras de la Colección SOLOFeature

He aprendido que tienes que rezar por lo que no conoces. Obras de la Colección SOLO

Exhibition catalogue

The Sala Amós Salvador exhibition He aprendido que tienes que rezar por lo que no conoces in Logroño showcases 49 works from the Colección SOLO selected to explore contemporary art across media - ranging from traditional forms to AI and crypto art - without strict hierarchies, inviting reflection on the present moment and its cultural, technological, and conceptual entanglements.

Re Humanism. Define the boundariesFeature

Re: Humanism. RE: DEFINE THE BOUNDARIES

Kappabit Edizioni

Re: Humanism. RE: DEFINE THE BOUNDARIES (2022), edited and curated by Daniela Cotimbo, documents the work of artists including Egor Kraft and others, pairing essays by Cotimbo, Valentino Catricalà, Alex Estorick, Federica Patti, and Irini Mirena Papadimitriou with critical reflections on humanism, technology, and contemporary art practice.

New Technological Art Award 2022 CatalogueFeature

New Technological Art Award

Liedts‑Meesen Foundation

New Technological Art Award (NTAA ’22) (2022) documents the international 2022 NTAA exhibition at Zebrastraat, Ghent, highlighting 20 shortlisted artists - including Egor Kraft for his Content Aware Studies - whose innovative projects critically engage technology, AI, and cultural memory, situating experimental digital practices within broader artistic and societal debates.

2021

Negative SpaceFeature

Negative Space

ZKM

Negative Space: Trajectories of Sculpture in the 20th and 21st Centuries (2021), edited by Peter Weibel with Anett Holzheid, is the catalogue for the ZKM exhibition exploring the evolving role of negative space, sculpture, and media in contemporary art, serving as a key reference for scholars, artists, and curators.

‘Contemporary Classicism’ Copy of a Copy: Appropriating Classical Statues as Conceptual ReadymadesFeature

‘Contemporary Classicism’ Copy of a Copy: Appropriating Classical Statues as Conceptual Readymades

CLARA

The CLARA journal article “Contemporary Classicism: Copy of a Copy: Appropriating Classical Statues as Conceptual Readymades” argues that contemporary artists’ use of classical sculpture functions not merely as replication but as cultural “readymades” that prompt reflection on continuity, presence, and meaning in art today by engaging classical forms as conceptual referents rather than originals.

Artificial intelligence and you: Stegi's Exhibition on the Field of MarsArticle

Artificial intelligence and you: Stegi's Exhibition on the Field of Mars

Athena 984

The Athena 984 article reports that You and AI: Artificial Intelligence and You is a public art and festival‑style exhibition in Athens’s Pedion tou Areos by the Onassis Foundation’s Stegi, presenting 25 works that invite visitors to explore how AI and algorithms shape everyday life, public space, politics, and our relationship to the environment.

Re:define the boundariesArticle

Re:define the boundaries

Re:humanism #2

Re: define the boundaries (Re:Humanism #2), curated by Daniela Cotimbo at MAXXI in Rome, was a collective exhibition that used artists’ work to question and rethink fundamental human categories like body, identity, and our relationship with AI technologies amid their social and philosophical implications.

AI as experience of the LimitArticle

AI as Experience of the Limit

NERO Magazine

The AI as Experience of the Limit essay on NERO Editions reflects on how the Re:Humanism project confronts AI not just as a technology but as a force that challenges and redefines the boundaries between human and artificial experience, prompting critical inquiry into embodiment, identity, ecology, and our evolving relationship with machine learning and networked intelligence.

After Agency: Resistance, Adaptation, SpeculationFeature

After Agency: Resistance, Adaptation, Speculation

Adam Mickiewicz University

After Agency. Resistance. Adaptation. Speculation (2021) gathers essays, dialogues, and artistic research from the After Agency conference, examining how agency is reshaped by algorithmic systems, ecological crises, and posthuman conditions while proposing new models of resistance and speculative world-making.

2020

New Aesthetic: Power & Control / Part 2Feature

New Aesthetic: POWER & CONTROL – ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE / Part 2

Kurzfilmfestival Köln

Air Kiss is an experimental short film by Egor Kraft, Pekka Airaxin, Alina Kvirkveliia, and Karina Golubenko set in a futuristic Moscow 2050 where much of government is automated by artificial intelligence, presented in the New Aesthetic II programme at the Kurzfilmfestival Köln.

Top 50 most promising Russian artistsArticle

Top 50 most promising Russian Artists

The Art Newspaper

The Art Newspaper Russia article presents a Top 50 Most Promising Young Russian Artists list compiled by the publication’s experts, in which Egor Kraft is featured among emerging contemporary talents shaping the future of Russian art.

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