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Studio Ègor Kraft
 * Selected Works
 * Events Index
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 * Bio & CV
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Studio Ègor Kraft

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George Ègor Kraft, or simply @kraft, is a research-driven artist working across
architecture and poetry of audiovisual mediation. He lives and works in Tokyo &
Vienna, or otherwise leads a highly mobile life.
Kraft is a lecturer at
European & Asian universities,
author of publications
and founder of a collective action wwww.work
His award-winning collaborations include
thought-objects,
texts,
concepts,
computational productions,
films,
investigative inquiries,
hacktivist interventions and
speculative proposals.
These efforts are informed by
such domains as
speculative philosophy,
ecologies and automations,
synthetic intelligence,
networked sovereignties,
technological pluralisms,
future industrial revolution¢,
latent spaces,
ambient security protocols,
new memory architectures,
algorithmic diffusions,
new epistemic challenges,
existential feedback loops,
deep timescales_



SELECTED WORKS

Content Aware Studies

Started in 2018, ongoing to this date

Artistic inquiry into technologies of artificial neural networks (AI) and
machine learning to reconstruct missing fragments in sculptures and friezes from
the periods of classical Antiquity as well as to generate never-existed, yet
genuine documents of synthetic histories.

Hashd0x [Proof of War]

2022

hashd0x is a series of tactical open source soft- & hard-ware prototypes,
designed to combat misinformation in photographic & video content. The software
tools revolve around issuance and registration of instant &
tamper-proof hashmark, blockchain native alternative of watermark and a proposed
fix for our computationally accelerated & disturbed information ecology.

1 & ∞ ⑁

2023

Images of chairs were generated by a Stable Diffusion deep learning model from
the prompt a single chair on a white background. The dataset was reused to
retrain the model, as if to enhance its understanding of the given prompt. After
six iterations, data cannibalism led the figurative chair image to become
abstract digital noise, exposing susceptibility to corruption of computational
ontology due to data feedback loops within Ai model echo chambers.

The New Color

Started in 2011, ongoing to this date


An on­line in­ter­ven­tion and mystification of a scientific break­through of a
discovery of pre­vi­ously ‘non-existent’ colour. Presented in a form of a
website of a fictitious American company, video ads and mockumentary interviews
became a viral sensation attracting mass attention on the internet.

SELECTED WORKS

URL Stone

2018

The work investigates the longevity of media carries by juxtaposing the same
information being held by two fundamentally different mediums: a text carved
into stone and a .jpeg file hosted on Wikipedia. The investigation is not
complete until one of them is lost, thus re­veal­ing its less durable
qual­i­ties in the site of the other. Which one will be lost first? Only time
will tell…

Decentralised %mbargo

2022

A 4-GPU computational sculpture. Using energy from a german provider, which
burns Russian gas to create electricity. The sculpture completes proof-of-work
in real-time for the Ethereum blockchain, thus mining Ethereum currency directly
into the official cryptocurrency wallet of Ukraine. Russian gas thus gets
directly monetised into humanitarian aid for the Ukrainian people, via the means
of the german hesitation to employ an embargo on Russian gas.

I Print, Therefore I Am

#sculpture #technology

A modified digital printer is able to continuously perform printing on a
looped-back sheet of paper, running throughout the entire duration of the show
(two month), is repeatedly reproducing one line of text: ‘I Print Therefore, I
Am’.

Chinese Ink

#ai

E-ink screens are set to display moving images streamlined by an AI (GAN)
algorithm trained on images of inkblots and set to generate similar images at
the rate of thousands a minute.

Twelve Nodes

#ai #intervention

'Twelve Nodes' highlights the importance of ethical treatment of personal data
and proposes the concept of Fair Data as a framework for better regulation and
control of data usage, aiming to address concerns about consent, ownership, and
economic value while promoting responsible data handling by organizations.

Kickback

#ai #meta_archeology

A series of interventions, where an newly purchased plain white T-shirts from a
fast-fashion clothing chain, were screen printed with the short text messages,
and returned them for a refund. Unaware of the modification, the store restocked
the T-shirts with artists messages, featuring them in the store prominently
displayed and available for purchasing.

Uncensorship Architecture

#ai #blockchain

Uncensorship Architecture, that provides an infrastructural proposal to protect
journalistic data & investigative work from censorship & blocking. Using
decentralized blockchain storage infrastructures, simultaneously stored on
thousands of nodes, previously banned journalistic archives become safe from
censorship and IP-blocking.

PropaGAN

#ai #blockchain

The generative GAN Algorithm is synced to an audio file to which it matches the
ongoing morphing moving image based on a dataset of explosions, smoke and
clouds.

The Link

#ai #meta_archeology

A luminous hyperlink is set up in various locations. The URL address is a full
sentence: http://this-is-the.link/between/the/real-and-virtual. Familiar syntax
suggests that it's an active weblink. A web page located at the address given in
the link, showing a streamed realtime 360-degree panorama camera view of its
location.

Air Kiss

#ai #meta_archeology

A film, presented in a form of 5-channel video installation, looking at a near
future, where governance has largely been outsourced to Artificial Intelligence
in the speculative context of Moscow in 2050 where a high degree of automation
is present.

This Very Moment

#installation #intervention

Emitting the brightest possible cold, white light - the text running across the
LED display board repetitively states: “...This very moment, has already become
the past – This very mo...”

Ascending Order

#meta_archeology

The general human question infinitely sinks in the depths of a sequence of
virtual space architecture. Each new mouse click takes us away from an answer
and question just as each following step of the development of media environment
and virtualization moves us further away from the understanding of what makes
reality real.




Events Index:
exhibitions, conferences etc.


VIEW YEARS:
2024 – 2022 | 2021 – 2019 | 2018 – 2016 | 2015 – 2010


2024

Title
Categories
Tags
Year
How are the “contexts” visualized in the world of non-linear narratives? |
Joshibi School Festival 2024 Tokyo JPN
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2024
Conference, Teaching
2024
CVPR 2024 AI Art | Seattle USA
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2024
Group Show
2024
SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 | Tokyo JPN
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2024
Conference, Prize Show
2024
Palyshop 2024 | China Academy of Arts Hangzhou CHN
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2024
Teaching
2024
Who owns the truth? | Ars Electronica Festival Linz AUT
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2024
Group Show
2024
The Next Renaissance. Le Goût de l’Invisible | Paris FRA 2024
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2024
Group Show
2024
The Epoch of Transformative Technologies | China Academy of Arts Hangzhou CHN
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2024
Teaching
2024
STRP Scenario x Baltan Laboratories Conference | STRP Festival Eindhoven NLD
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2024
Conference
2024
Museum of Fake | One World Festival Bucharest ROU
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2024
Group Show
2024


2023

Title
Categories
Tags
Year
AI, Big Data, Social Media, and People on the Move | Weizenbaum Conference 2023
Berlin DEU
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2023
Conference
2024
EDITION BOX II – Body of Concept | Geidai Art Plaza Tokyo JPN
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2023
Group Show
2023
University of Art & Design Linz | Linz AUT
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2023
Teaching
2023
Cryptomania | Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen DEU
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2023
Group Show
2023
The Dark Side of White | Vienna AUT
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2023
Group Show
2023


2022

Title
Categories
Tags
Year
He Aprendido Que Tienes Que Rezar Por Lo Que No Conoces | Sala Amós Salvador
Logroño ESP
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2022
Group Show
2022
NEAR+FUTURES+QUASI+WORLDS | Palazzo Borsa Bologna ITA
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2022
Group Show
2022
Things | ART4 Museum Moscow RUS
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2022
Group Show
2022
Navigating the digital realm | DG Connect Brussels BEL
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2022
Group Show
2022
Everything will be fine | Tactical Tech Berlin DEU
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2022
Group Screening
2022
Algorithms and Codes. Wisdom in a calculated world | Espacio Fundación
Telefónica Madrid ESP
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2022
Group Show
2022
NTAA’22, New Technological Art Award | Zebrastraat Ghent BEL
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2022
Prize Show
2022
Lies, Half-Truths & Propaganda [The Bad, the Worse, and the Worst] |
alexanderlevy gallery Berlin DEU
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2022
Solo Show
2022

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2021

Title
Categories
Tags
Year
Writing The History of the Future | ZKM Karlsruhe DEU
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2021
Group Show
2021
Millennials in Contemporary Russian Art | Russian Museum St.Petersburg RUS
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2021
Group Show
2021
Re:Humanism 2 | MAXXI Museo Nazionale Delle Arti Rome ITA
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2021
Group Show
2021
You & AI: Through the Algorithmic Lens | Onassis Foundation Athens GRC
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2021
Group Show
2021
OSMOS, Fluid aesthetics | Electromuseum Moscow RUS
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2021
Group Show
2021


2020

Title
Categories
Tags
Year
K60 opening at Wilhelm Hallen | alexanderlevy gallery Berlin DEU
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2020
Group Show
2024
Ars Electronica Garden: Datasets vs Mindsets | Electromuseum Moscow RUS
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2020
Group Show
2020
Still Human | Madrid ESP
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2020
Group Show
2020
Measure of Chaos. Science as a way of communication | Tsk19 Novosibirsk RUS 2020
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2020
Group Show
2020
Accrochage | alexanderlevy gallery Berlin DEU
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2020
Group Show
2020
NEAR + FUTURES + QUASI + WORLDS | STATE Studio Berlin DEU
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2020
Group Show
2020


2019

Title
Categories
Tags
Year
Kandinsky Prize Exhibition | MOMMA Moscow RUS
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2019
Prize Show
2019
WRONG Biennale #thescreenisnotthelimit
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2019
Group Screening
2019
Short Film Festival | Ludwig Museum Cologne DEU
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2019
Group Screening
2019
Kuryokhin Prize Nominees | St.Petersburg RUS
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2019
Prize Show
2019
Innovation Prize Show | Arsenal Nizhny Novgorod RUS
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2019
Prize Show
2019
Negative Space | ZKM Karlsruhe DEU
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2019
Group Show
2019
Charon Cycle Screening | TICK TACK Antwerp BEL
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2019
Group Screening
2019
Content Aware Studies | alexanderlevy gallery Berlin DEU
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2019
Solo Show
2019
Human (un)limited | Ars Electronica Export, Moscow RUS
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2019
Solo Show
2019
WRO Biennale | National Museum Wrocław PL
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2019
Group Show
2019
Non-Aligned Networks | Valletta Contemporary Malta MT
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2019
Group Show
2019
Artificial Intelligence and Intercultural Dialogue | The State Hermitage Museum
St. Petersburg RUS
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2019
Group Show
2019
Cosmoscow | Manezh, Moscow RUS
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2019
Art Fair
2019
5th Ural Industrial Biennial: Main Project | Yekaterinburg RUS
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2019
Group Show
2019
Art Düsseldorf | alexanderlevy gallery Düsseldorf DEU
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2019
Art Fair
2019
Learning Machines | Electromuseum Moscow RUS
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2019
Group Show
2019

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2018

Title
Categories
Tags
Year
Prototype #3 | Kuryokhin Center St.Petersburg RUS
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2018
Group Show
2018
Pulsar Art Prize | Paris FRA
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2018
Prize Show
2018
New State of The Living | RERMM Perm RUS
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2018
Group Show
2018
Daemons in the Machine | MMOMA Moscow RUS
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2018
Group Show
2018
Sciencefest | Russian Railways Museum St. Petersburg RUS
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2018
Group Show
2018
Cyfest 11 | Stieglitz Academy St.Petersburg RUS
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2018
Group Show
2018
Innovation as Method | The State Hermitage Museum St.Petersburg RUS
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2018
Group Show
2018
Vienna Contemporary | Solo Booth Vienna AUT
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2018
Art Fair
2018
Future Unhuman | Quartariata Residency St.Petersburg RUS
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2018
Group Show
2018
Ákkta | Anna Nova Gallery St. Petersburg RUS
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2018
Solo Show
2018
Open Codes | ZKM Karlsruhe DEU
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2018
Group Show
2018
Ars Electronica | The Galleries Linz AUT
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2018
Group Show
2018
Impakt Festival | Utrecht NLD
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2018
Group Show
2018


2017

Title
Categories
Tags
Year
Art Athens: Citizen 6 | Athens GRC
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2017
Group Screening
2017
Ambient Intelligence | Enclave Gallery London GBR
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2017
Group Screening
2017
Prototype #4 | Kuryokhin Center St.Petersburg RUS
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2017
Group Show
2017
The New Normal Showcase | Strelka Institute Moscow RUS
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2017
Showcase
2017
Par­al­lel Vi­enna | For­mat.STRK Vi­enna AUT
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2017
Group Show
2017
Innovation Prize | MUAR Moscow RUS
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2017
Prize Show
2017


2016

Title
Categories
Tags
Year
Play­room | Union Studios Lon­don GBR
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2016
Group Show
2016
It­inéraire Bis | Sa­lon-de-Provence FRA
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2016
Group Show
2016
Felt Book | Human Resources Los Angeles USA
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2016
Group Screening
2016
CYFEST Digital Media Program | Bogota, NYC, St.Petersburg, Mexico
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2016
Group Screening
2016
Corridor I: Onkalo | Insitu Berlin DEU
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2016
Group Show
2016
Rod­chenko Art School 10 Years | MAMM Moscow RUS
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2016
Group Show
2016
Deep In­side, V Moscow In­ter­na­tional Bi­en­nale for Young Art | Tryokhgornaya
Manufactory, Moscow RUS
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2016
Group Show
2016
Art Prospect Festival | St. Petersburg RUS
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2016
Group Show
2016
All Eyes On Me | Pech­er­sky Gallery Moscow RUS
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2016
Group Show
2016

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2015 – 2010

Title
Categories
Tags
Year
CYBERFEST | Salon Leisure and Fantasy, Bogota, St. Petersburg, Berlin, London,
Vilnius, Moscow, New York
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2015
Group Show
2015
What to say if there is nothing to say | Udarnik Moscow RUS
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2015
Group Show
2015
Wanderings 2.0 | Rundum Tallinn EST
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2015
Solo Show
2015
Kiev Biennale: Apocalypse & Rebirth | National Museum Of Russian Art, Kyiv, UKR
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2012
Group Show
2012
5th International Art Moves Festival | Toruń POL
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2012
Group Screening
2012
Night at the Museum | New Tretyakov Gallery Moscow RUS
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2012
Group Show
2012
Now is Just Right Now | Taiga Space St. Petersburg RUS
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2012
Group Show
2012
INDI_VISUAL | Multimedia Art Museum Moscow RUS
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2011
Group Show
2011
Media Act | Zhir Gallery Moscow RUS
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2010
Group Show
2010
II Young Art Biennale “Qui vive?” | Moscow RUS
Shows & Events, Shows & Events 2010
Group Show
2010












Newsfeed

5 September, 2024

A few stills from my public lecture at the Chinese academy of Art
@chinaacademyofart in Hangzhou, wh...

1 September, 2024

As the summer draws to a close and my Weltschmerz (for lack of a better word)
caused by all the ongoing political struggle keeps me antisocial on social
media, I thought I would leave it here as a memo on my moves this spring/summer.
11.04 @ Eindhoven, NL — STRP Scenario Conference x Baltan Laboratories 13.04 @
Bucharest, RO — One World Festival 15-19.04 @ Linz, AT — Linz University of Art
& Design, Workshop on Ai Aesthetics 22-27.04 @ Madrid, ES — Postnatural
Independent Program 13.05 @ Paris, FR — Exhibition The Next Renaissance, Le Goût
de L’invisible @...

2 June, 2024

I couldn't really write about it before. I was shattered and speechless when I
witnessed the extent of this bloody military invasion in early 2022. I still am,
and from today's point of view it's better to call it the beginning of a
full-blown horror that seems to have no end, only a downward spiral with
cascading catastrophic consequences for all the hostages of this bloodshed
humanitarian meltdown. I don't think we should allow our lives and practices to
be normalised alongside this bloody dynamic. And I'm glad I was able to do some
reactionary activist work, as well as some...

10 May, 2024

I'm in Paris this week to install the show THE NEXT RENAISSANCE LE GÔUT DE
L'INVISIBLE at Goethe-Institut Paris curated by @schoggivstock and produced by
@zkmkarlsruhe 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) #kraftblog

1 May, 2024

Over the course of last year and also very recently I had a privilege and some
quality time engaging with the students during my course on Art and Image in the
contexts of Ai’s at the Linz’s University of Arts, visual communication
department. The course has developed and calibrated over the years of performing
it in various educational contexts, and I’m looking forward to continuing it
soon at the Chinese Academy of Art in Hangzhou. I remain deeply thankful to the
brilliant viskom faculty of Linz’s Kunstuni, (a city and uni not alien to art
forms engaging with the new...

18 April, 2024

I’m back in ęüřøpẽ and after some escapist time, setting a new home in Tokyo,
glad to revitalise this feed with the glimpses from the recent panel at
@strpeindhoven festival. Massive thanks go to @baltanlaboratories who organised
it and the brilliant speakers Ramon Amaro and Ianis Dobrev. #ontour #kraftblog

24 December, 2023

Traditionally, approximately 15 minutes before landing in Tokyo, I take a
picture of Mt. Fuji from my aircraft window. Here’s a fresh one and a handful of
others from past trips. Kon'nichiwa to my favourite city on earth. #kraftblog
#fuji

20 November, 2023

Here’s my portrait feature altered by an Ai (artificial idiocy) in Vienna’s
biannual Kultur Magazine by @diepresse published this October. Big thanks goes
to @tenul_ and @charimgalerie #kraftblog

16 November, 2023

If in Brussels, join us tonight for the opening of the exhibition CODE &
ALGORITHMS. WISDOM IN A CALCULATED WORLD at @imal_brussels Curated by Manuela
Nuveau Featuring: Kyriaki Goni · Clara Boj & Diego Diaz · Mushon Zer-Aviv ·
Trevor Paglen · Manu Luksch · Shinseungback Kimyonghun · Danja Vasiliev · Egor
Kraft · Ahmed Jamal Abdelkader & Simon Weckert · Barcelona Supercomputing Center
#ontour #kraftblog

19 October, 2023

I'm genuinely honoured to receive the Lumen Prize this year and I couldn’t be
more grateful to everyone I collaborated with on this series of works. I'm
saddened and perhaps even devastated I wasn't given a chance to attend the
ceremony. The UK Immigration bureaucracy considered my visa application to not
be straightforward, which leads to undefined duration in processing time. As a
holder of a Russian passport, for the past 14 years, I have been wrestling with
the western immigration bureaucracy, while living, studying, and working in
England, Austria, Sweden, and Japan. I was on this escapist train, looking...

17 October, 2023

Hot from the press, the newest issue of the brilliant Neural magazine
(@neural_mag) features, amongst other things, our in—depth conversation on
synthetic cognition, new memory architectures and a deep dive into an extensive
bit of my work. I am honoured and humbled and honoured and humbled and h…
#kraftblog #press

14 October, 2023

It’s raining like cats and dogs in Kyoto tonight #ontour

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