Duration: 20 April–14 June 2015
Event type: Group Show
Organizer: A. Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia
Venue: MOMMA, Moscow, Russia
The sixth graduation exhibition of the Rodchenko School continues the series of previous ones. But the socio-political context forces us to perceive this ‘normal’ event in a situation where the very notion of normality is called into question.
what to say when there is nothing to say
what to say when there is nothing to say
what to say when there is nothing to say
This phrase is uttered with different rhythm, different voices, with different intonations by the actors of the theatrical crowd when it is necessary to depict the noise of the crowd on the stage. Diploma theses, which seem to be united by nothing but the formal framework of the end of the educational process, repeat with painful persistence the same questions: why does everything go on as it is? What will happen tomorrow? And will there be a tomorrow? What is expected of me? How do I react to it? Why do I do nothing? What is my role? How should I act?
Today, these questions are no longer rhetorical. It paralyses the course of the usual creative work, making the artist's smallest gesture the result of a political choice: to remain a statistic observer, to try to turn away from the drama being played out, or to intervene in its course. Our works in one way or another reflect the state of this forced choice, creating a polyphony of possible answers.
what to say when there is nothing to say
what to say when there is nothing to say
what to say when there is nothing to say
Duration: 20 April–14 June 2015
Event type: Group Show
Organizer: A. Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia
Venue: MOMMA, Moscow, Russia
The sixth graduation exhibition of the Rodchenko School continues the series of previous ones. But the socio-political context forces us to perceive this ‘normal’ event in a situation where the very notion of normality is called into question.
what to say when there is nothing to say
what to say when there is nothing to say
what to say when there is nothing to say
This phrase is uttered with different rhythm, different voices, with different intonations by the actors of the theatrical crowd when it is necessary to depict the noise of the crowd on the stage. Diploma theses, which seem to be united by nothing but the formal framework of the end of the educational process, repeat with painful persistence the same questions: why does everything go on as it is? What will happen tomorrow? And will there be a tomorrow? What is expected of me? How do I react to it? Why do I do nothing? What is my role? How should I act?
Today, these questions are no longer rhetorical. It paralyses the course of the usual creative work, making the artist's smallest gesture the result of a political choice: to remain a statistic observer, to try to turn away from the drama being played out, or to intervene in its course. Our works in one way or another reflect the state of this forced choice, creating a polyphony of possible answers.
what to say when there is nothing to say
what to say when there is nothing to say
what to say when there is nothing to say
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
Content Aware Studies
The New Color
Model Collapse Studies
Tactical Archiving
Exonomics
Air Kiss
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Auto-Esthetic Simulations
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#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.
#Cyberdolia #Infollution #Autoesthetics #Engistemics
A text-to-image AI model was given the prompt “A single chair on a white background.” After six iterations of retraining on its own outputs, the autocannibalised model lost ability to produce realistic chair images, but non-figurative digital noise instead. Thus revealing model collapse and its fragility to recursive data feedback loops.
#Autoesthtics #Cyberdolia #Engistemics
2025.
Written for Moscow Art Magazine №127
The essay explores the parallels between errors in AI image recognition and biases in human visual perception. It illustrates how both AI and humans misinterpret patterns for reasons that are both similar and different.
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