Interdisciplinary artist & researcher Egor Kraft lives and works in Tokyo & Berlin. His practice is informed by media theory, speculative philosophy, computer science, Ai, film & research-based art.
While the new website is in the works, this page serves as a temporary showcase of selected works, CV and links. Kraft teaches at Kunstuniversität Linz and other European universities. His recent written work includes peer-reviewed papers on AI & historiography published by City University Hong Kong and Museum of Synthetic Histories published as conference paper for Politics of Machine 2021 at the University of Arts, Berlin.
You can view selected works below or download portfolio.pdf and selected cv.pdf, view films on Vimeo or send an email. For updates, you may follow Instagram & Twitter.
Egor Kraft is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher working with ideas, objects, texts, ¤moving image and sound; his interest spans aesthetics of industrialisation©, shock-and-awe ©ampaigns, tactical trickery shuttle between fact and speculation, fully automated ruralisms, speculative narratives≠, thought-Õbjects prototypes, deep timescales, proto-continental geographies, self-declared enclaves® and self~sovereign network systems, ultra-wideband wireless planetary connectivity, exponentially increasing capacities{}, monopolised™ data echo chambers, geology of media, logistics of information superhighways, their domain ontologies, crude materials for •planetary computation assembly, synthetic cognition and sensation, epistemic focal biases, quantitative machine-rendered∷ regimes, nonhuman agencies, rhythms of low-pitch corrupt data sounds, ultrasonic interventions, big-time proposals, ambient security protocols, recoding and rewiring storage architectures, unfettered bulk data collection powers of wholesale surveillance, bypassing corporate hardware monopolies, unstable climates, seriously old remnants and existential feedback loops
Egor Kraft is an interdisciplinary artist working with ideas, objects, moving image, sound and texts; his interest spans #aesthetics of industrialisation, Shock-and-awe campaigns, ∷tactical trickery between facts & fiction, →fully automated ruralisms, ☼︎️speculative narratives, ◉thought-objects prototypes, ↨deep timescales, ░proto-continental geographies, ☑self-declared enclaves & ✓self-sovereign network systems, ╫ultra-wideband wireless planetary connectivity, ↔exponentially increasing capacities, ¤monopolised data echo chambers, *geology of media, ═logistics of information superhighways, ○content & ●domain ontologies, ■crude materials for techno-organic bodies, øpolitics of planetarity, ◊synthetic cognition and sensation, ≈epistemic focal biases, ☐quantitative machine-rendered regimes, …non-human agencies, low frequency sounds of corrupt data streams, ultrasonic interventions, ⁄big-time proposals, ()ambient security protocols, †rewiring memory architectures, unfettered bulk data collection regimes & wholesale surveillance™, ©digital autocracy circumvention, ®unstable climates, ±open-source hardware, ¿seriously old remnants and ∞existential feedback loops
Egor Kraft is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher working with ideas, objects, texts, ¤moving image and sound; his interest spans aesthetics of industrialisation©, shock-and-awe ©ampaigns, tactical trickery shuttle between fact and speculation, fully automated ruralisms, speculative narratives≠, thought-Õbjects prototypes, deep timescales, proto-continental geographies, self-declared enclaves® and self~sovereign network systems, ultra-wideband wireless planetary connectivity, exponentially increasing capacities{}, monopolised™ data echo chambers, geology of media, logistics of information superhighways, their domain ontologies, crude materials for •planetary computation assembly, synthetic cognition and sensation, epistemic focal biases, quantitative machine-rendered∷ regimes, nonhuman agencies, rhythms of low-pitch corrupt data sounds, ultrasonic interventions, big-time proposals, ambient security protocols, recoding and rewiring storage architectures, unfettered bulk data collection powers of wholesale surveillance, bypassing corporate hardware monopolies, unstable climates, seriously old remnants and existential feedback loops
2022
NTAA’22, New Technological Art Award at Zebrastraat Ghent, BEL
He Aprendido Que Tienes Que Rezar Por Lo Que No Conoces at Sala Amós Salvador, Logroño, ESP
NEAR+FUTURES+QUASI+WORLDS at Palazzo Borsa, Bologna, ITA
Things at ART4 Museum, Moscow, RUS
Everything will be fine at Tactical Tech, Berlin, DEU
Codes and algorithms. Wisdom in a calculated world at Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid, ESP
Navigating the Digital Realm at DG Connect, Brussels, BEL
2021
Millennials in Contemporary Russian Art at Russian Museum, St.Petersburg RUS
Writing The History of the Future at ZKM, Karlsruhe, DEU
Re:Humanism 2 at MAXXI Museo Nazionale Delle Arti, Rome, ITA
You & AI: Through the Algorithmic Lens at Onassis Foundation, Athens, GRC
OSMOS, Fluid aesthetics in Electromuseum, Moscow, RUS
Charon Cycle Screening at Tick Tack, Antwerp, BEL
Content Aware Studies at Alexander Levy, Berlin, DEU
Human (un)limited at Ars Electronica Export, Moscow, RUS
2018
Cyfest 11 at Stieglitz Academy, St.Petersburg, RUS
Innovation as Method at Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg, RUS
Vienna Contemporary, Solo Booth at Vienna, AUT
Future Unhuman at Quartariata Residency, St.Petersburg, RUS
Ákkta at Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg, RUS
Open Codes at ZKM, Karlsruhe, DEU
Ars Electronica at The Galleries, Linz, AUT
Impakt Festival at Utrecht, NLD
2017
The New Normal Showcase at Strelka Institute, Moscow, RUS
Still Human | Colección Solo, Madrid, ESP |
Chaos Measure | Tsk19, Novosibirsk, RUS |
Accrochage | alexanderlevy gallery, Berlin, DEU |
2023 Expand+
Curated By & Charim Gallery | Charim Gallery | Vienna, AUT |
EDITION BOX II -Body of Concept | Geidai Art Plaza | Tokyo, JPN |
Ars Electronica Festival | Linz, AUT | |
Cryptomania | Zeppelin Museum | Friedrichshafen, DEU |
Navigating the Digital Realm | DG Connect | Brussels, BEL |
Codes and algorithms.Wisdom in a calculated world | Fundacion Telefonica | Madrid, ESP |
Duration: 19.09.2017–24.09.2017
Event type: Group show
Curator: Annet Holzheid
Organizer: ZKM
Venue: Goethe-Institut, Paris, FRA
The exhibition includes works by Zbyněk Baladràn (CZ), Thijs Biersteker (NL), Michèle Boulogne (NL), Thomas Feuerstein (AT), Linu Grönlund & Okku Nuutilainen (FI), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (CA), Manfred P. Kage (DE), Egór Kraft (AT/JP), Dorcas Müller (DE), Joel Ong (CA), Jean Painlevé (FR), Helen Pynor (AU) and Joel Sherwood-Spring (AU)
Duration: 19.09.2017–24.09.2017
Event type: Group show
Curator: Annet Holzheid
Organizer: ZKM
Venue: Goethe-Institut, Paris, FRA
The exhibition includes works by Zbyněk Baladràn (CZ), Thijs Biersteker (NL), Michèle Boulogne (NL), Thomas Feuerstein (AT), Linu Grönlund & Okku Nuutilainen (FI), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (CA), Manfred P. Kage (DE), Egór Kraft (AT/JP), Dorcas Müller (DE), Joel Ong (CA), Jean Painlevé (FR), Helen Pynor (AU) and Joel Sherwood-Spring (AU)
Events Index:
exhibitions, conferences etc.
2024
STRP Scenario x Baltan Laboratories Conference | STRP Festival | Eindhoven. NLD |
The Epoch of Transformative Technologies | China Academy of Arts | Hangzhou, CHN |
The Next Renaissance. Le Goût de l’Invisible | Goethe-Institut Paris | Paris, FRA |
Playshop 2024 | China Academy of Arts | Hangzhou, CHN |
Museum of Fake | One World Festival | Bucharest, ROU |
2023
Curated By & Charim Gallery | Charim Gallery | Vienna, AUT |
EDITION BOX II -Body of Concept | Geidai Art Plaza | Tokyo, JPN |
Who owns the truth? | Ars Electronica Festival | Linz, AUT |
Cryptomania | Zeppelin Museum | Friedrichshafen, DEU |
Navigating the Digital Realm | DG Connect | Brussels, BEL |
Codes and algorithms.Wisdom in a calculated world | Fundacion Telefonica | Madrid, ESP |
2022
NTAA’22, New Technological Art Award | Zebrastraat | Ghent, BEL |
He Aprendido Que Tienes Que Rezar Por Lo Que No Conoces | Sala Amós Salvador | Logroño, ESP |
NEAR+FUTURES+QUASI+WORLDS | Palazzo Borsa | Bologna, ITA |
Things | ART4 Museum | Moscow, RUS |
Everything will be fine | Tactical Tech | Berlin, DEU |
Writing The History of the Future | ZKM | Karlsruhe, DEU |
2021
You & AI: Through the Algorithmic Lens | Onassis Foundation | Athens, GRC |
Millennials in Contemporary Russian Art | Russian Museum | St.Petersburg, RUS |
Re:Humanism 2 | MAXXI Museo Nazionale Delle Arti | Rome, ITA |
OSMOS, Fluid aesthetics | Electromuseum | Moscow, RUS |
2020
Still Human | Colección Solo | Madrid, ESP |
Measure of Chaos. Science as a way of communication | Tsk19 | Novosibirsk, RUS |
Accrochage | alexanderlevy gallery | Berlin, DEU |
NEAR + FUTURES + QUASI + WORLDS | STATE Studio | Berlin, DEU |
Ars Electronica Garden: Datasets vs Mindsets | Ars Electronica | Moscow, RUS |
2019
Kuryokhin Prize Nominees 2019 | Sergey Kuryokhin Centre | St. Petersburg, RUS |
WRO Biennale | National Museum | Wrocław, POL |
Negative Space | ZKM | Karlsruhe, DEU |
Non-Aligned Networks | Valletta Contemporary | Malta, MLT |
Artificial Intelligence and Intercultural Dialogue | The State Hermitage Museum | St. Petersburg, RUS |
Cosmoscow | Manezh | Moscow, RUS |
Innovation Prize Show | Arsenal | Nizhny Novgorod, RUS |
Kandinsky Prize Exhibition | MOMMA | Moscow, RUS |
5th Ural Industrial Biennial: Main Project | Yekaterinburg, RUS | |
Art Düsseldorf | alexanderlevy gallery | Düsseldorf, DEU |
Short Film Festival | Museum Ludwig | Cologne, DEU |
WRONG Biennale #thescreenisnotthelimit | Online WEB | |
Learning Machines | Electromuseum | Moscow, RUS |
Charon Cycle Screening | Tick Tack | Antwerp, BEL |
Content Aware Studies | alexanderlevy gallery | Berlin, DEU |
Human (un)limited | Ars Electronica Export | Moscow, RUS |
2018
Cyfest 11 | Stieglitz Academy | St.Petersburg, RUS |
Innovation as Method | Hermitage Museum | St.Petersburg, RUS |
Vienna Contemporary | Solo Booth | Vienna, AUT |
Prototype #3 | Kuryokhin Center | St.Petersburg, RUS |
Future Unhuman | Quartariata Residency | St.Petersburg, RUS |
Ákkta | Anna Nova Gallery | St. Petersburg, RUS |
To Touch The Sky | NCCA | Kalinigrad, RUS |
Open Codes | ZKM | Karlsruhe, DEU |
Ars Electronica | The Galleries | Linz, AUT |
Impakt Festival | Utrecht, NLD | |
Sciencefest | Russian Railways Museum | Saint Petersburg, RUS |
Pulsar Art Prize | Paris, FRA | |
Daemons in the Machine | MMOMA | Moscow, RUS |
The New State of Living | PERMM | Perm, RUS |
2017
Art Athens: Citizen 6 | Athens, GRC | |
Innovation Prize | MUAR | Moscow RUS |
The New Normal Showcase | Strelka Institute | Moscow, RUS |
Parallel Vienna | Format.STRK | Vienna, AUT |
Citizen 6 part of Art Athens | Athens, GRC | |
Ambient Intelligence | Enclave Gallery | London, GBR |
Prototype #4 | Kuryokhin Center | St.Petersburg RUS |
2016
Rodchenko Art School 10 Years | MAMM | Moscow RUS |
Deep Inside, V Moscow International Biennale for Young Art | Tryokhgornaya Manufactory | Moscow RUS |
Art Prospect Festival | St. Petersburg, RUS | |
All Eyes On Me | Pechersky Gallery | Moscow, RUS |
Playroom | Union Studios | London, GBR |
Itinéraire Bis | Salon-de-Provence, FRA | |
Felt Book | Human Resources | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
Corridor I: Onkalo | Insitu | Berlin, DEU |
Felipe Castelblanco’s Program | Royal Academy America | NYC, USA |
CYFEST Digital Media Program | Bogota, NYC, St.Petersburg, Mexico |
2015
Wanderings 2.0 | Rundum | Tallinn, EST |
What to say if there is nothing to say | Udarnik | Moscow, RUS |
Musing the Boundaries | Kuryokhin Center | St.Petersburg, RUS |
'Pop Mechanics' Trail | Kuryokhin Center | St. Petersburg, RUS |
CYBERFEST | Salon Leisure and Fantasy | Bogota, St. Petersburg, Berlin, London, Vilnius, Moscow, New York |
2012
Kiev Biennale: Apocalypse & Rebirth | National Museum Of Russian Art | Kyiv, UKR |
Originalcopy | Fluc am Praterstern | Vienna, AUT |
5th International Art Moves Festival | Toruń, POL | |
Now is Just Right Now | Taiga Space | St. Petersburg, RUS |
No Translation | Museum for Applied Arts | Moscow, RUS |
Night at the Museum | New Tretyakov Gallery | Moscow, RUS |
2011
Infiltration Series 6 | Paradiso | Amsterdam, NDL |
Ribbons | The Galleries | Sydney, AUS |
INDI_VISUAL | Multimedia Art Museum | Moscow, RUS |
Insight & Foresight | Garage Museum | Moscow, RUS |
2008
State of Mine | Gerlesborgskolan, SWE |