2022.
Electronic Ink screens, Plexiglass, Swarm Blockchain and Swarm Nodes, Fragments of films of investigative journalists.
Hashterms
Drafts for Exo-Censorship Tactics, that provides an infrastructural proposal to protect journalistic data and investigative work from censorship and blocking. Using decentralized blockchain storage infrastructures, simultaneously stored on thousands of nodes, previously banned journalistic archives become safe from censorship and IP-blocking.
Drafts for Exo-Censorship Tactics provides an infrastructural proposal to protect journalistic data and investigative work from censorship and geopolitical blocks. Using decentralised blockchain storage infrastructures, journalistic archives become safe from censorship and IP-blocking. Displaying content hosted in a decentralised storage network: 6 E-ink screens feature excerpts of banned media in Russia, uploaded to a decentralised archive to protect them from repeated censorship. The data is distributed through Swarm nodes across the planet-wide infrastructure. Russia’s contested relationship with the free press has a long, ongoing history.
The Committee to Protect Journalists states that Russia was the country with the 10th largest number of journalists killed since 1992, 26 of them since the beginning of 2000, including four from the outlet ’Novaya Gazeta’.
Following 24 February 2022, the already difficult relationship with independent journalism reached a climax with the criminalisation of any news or information that did not align with the state narrative. Following the introduction of the 'fake news' law, several news outlets were forced to close as they refused to operate under state-imposed censorship. Among these were the last remaining independent live-breaking news agencies operating from within Russia. Just hours after journalists and staff said goodbye to their audience, government employees seized their data archive. Folliwng with, the entire archive, that existed on YouTube after many years of live coverage, was also deleted upon request from the local censorship agency. The government waged informational warfare on its own people by restricting their access to information.
Drafts for Exo-Censorship Tactics, on view at the Lies, Half-Truths & Propaganda solo exhibition at the alexanderlevy Gallery, Berlin, DEU. 2022.
2022.
Electronic Ink screens, Plexiglass, Swarm Blockchain and Swarm Nodes, Fragments of films of investigative journalists.
Hashterms
Drafts for Exo-Censorship Tactics, that provides an infrastructural proposal to protect journalistic data and investigative work from censorship and blocking. Using decentralized blockchain storage infrastructures, simultaneously stored on thousands of nodes, previously banned journalistic archives become safe from censorship and IP-blocking.
Drafts for Exo-Censorship Tactics provides an infrastructural proposal to protect journalistic data and investigative work from censorship and geopolitical blocks. Using decentralised blockchain storage infrastructures, journalistic archives become safe from censorship and IP-blocking. Displaying content hosted in a decentralised storage network: 6 E-ink screens feature excerpts of banned media in Russia, uploaded to a decentralised archive to protect them from repeated censorship. The data is distributed through Swarm nodes across the planet-wide infrastructure. Russia’s contested relationship with the free press has a long, ongoing history.
The Committee to Protect Journalists states that Russia was the country with the 10th largest number of journalists killed since 1992, 26 of them since the beginning of 2000, including four from the outlet ’Novaya Gazeta’.
Following 24 February 2022, the already difficult relationship with independent journalism reached a climax with the criminalisation of any news or information that did not align with the state narrative. Following the introduction of the 'fake news' law, several news outlets were forced to close as they refused to operate under state-imposed censorship. Among these were the last remaining independent live-breaking news agencies operating from within Russia. Just hours after journalists and staff said goodbye to their audience, government employees seized their data archive. Folliwng with, the entire archive, that existed on YouTube after many years of live coverage, was also deleted upon request from the local censorship agency. The government waged informational warfare on its own people by restricting their access to information.
Drafts for Exo-Censorship Tactics, on view at the Lies, Half-Truths & Propaganda solo exhibition at the alexanderlevy Gallery, Berlin, DEU. 2022.
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.