Exhibited Works: CAS_V04 Hellenistic Portrait, CAS_08 Hellenistic Ruler, CAS_09 Colossal head of Hercules, CAS_10 Telephos Drapery, URL Stone, CAS_11 Androgynous Portrait, URL Stone
Duration: 27.09–30.09.2018
Event type: Solo booth
Organizer: Anna Nova Gallery
Venue: Vienna Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
Egor Kraft's "Content Aware Studies Series" initiates an inquiry into the possibilities of Artificial Intelligence and particularly Machine Learning to reconstruct and generate lost antique friezes and sculptures by the means of algorithmic analysis of 3D scans of antiquity. It concerns the potentialities of methods involving data, ML, AI and other forms of automation turning into semi- and quasi– archaeological knowledge production and interpretations of history and culture in the era of ubiquitous computation.
Installation view
Installation view
Installation view
CAS_08 Hellenistic Ruler
CAS_08 Hellenistic Ruler
CAS_09 Colossal head of Hercules
CAS_09 Colossal head of Hercules
CAS_V04 Hellenistic Portrait
'URL Stone' Installation
CAS_11 Androgynous Portrait
Exhibited Works: CAS_V04 Hellenistic Portrait, CAS_08 Hellenistic Ruler, CAS_09 Colossal head of Hercules, CAS_10 Telephos Drapery, URL Stone, CAS_11 Androgynous Portrait, URL Stone
Duration: 27.09–30.09.2018
Event type: Solo booth
Organizer: Anna Nova Gallery
Venue: Vienna Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
Installation view
Installation view
Installation view
CAS_08 Hellenistic Ruler
CAS_08 Hellenistic Ruler
CAS_09 Colossal head of Hercules
CAS_09 Colossal head of Hercules
CAS_V04 Hellenistic Portrait
'URL Stone' Installation
CAS_11 Androgynous Portrait
Egor Kraft's "Content Aware Studies Series" initiates an inquiry into the possibilities of Artificial Intelligence and particularly Machine Learning to reconstruct and generate lost antique friezes and sculptures by the means of algorithmic analysis of 3D scans of antiquity. It concerns the potentialities of methods involving data, ML, AI and other forms of automation turning into semi- and quasi– archaeological knowledge production and interpretations of history and culture in the era of ubiquitous computation.
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.