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
SELECTED WORKS
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Egor G. Kraft is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and film-maker whose interest spans: doubles, models, gimmicks, ruses, prototypes, and shock-and-awe campaigns, tactical trickery shuttle between fact and speculation, action and script. Egor G. Kraft is an interdiscipli- nary artist, researcher and film-maker whose interest spans: doubles, models, gimmicks, ruses, prototypes, and shock-and-awe campaigns, tactical trickery shuttle between fact and speculation, action and script.
Egor G. Kraft is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and film-maker whose interest spans: doubles, models, gimmicks, ruses, prototypes, and shock-and-awe campaigns, tactical trickery shuttle between fact and speculation, action and script. Egor G. Kraft is an interdiscipli- nary artist, researcher and film-maker whose interest spans: doubles, models, gimmicks, ruses, prototypes, and shock-and-awe campaigns, tacti cal trickery shuttle between fact and speculation, action and script.
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Egor G. Kraft is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and film-maker whose interest spans: doubles, models, gimmicks, ruses, prototypes, and shock-and-awe campaigns, tactical trickery shuttle between fact and speculation, action and script. Egor G. Kraft is an interdiscipli- nary artist, researcher and film-maker whose interest spans: doubles, models, gimmicks, ruses, prototypes, and shock-and-awe campaigns, tacti cal trickery shuttle between fact and speculation, action and script.
Egor G. Kraft is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and film-maker whose interest spans: doubles, models, gimmicks, ruses, prototypes, and shock-and-awe campaigns, tactical trickery shuttle between fact and speculation, action and script. Egor G. Kraft is an interdiscipli- nary artist, researcher and film-maker whose interest spans: doubles, models, gimmicks, ruses, prototypes, and shock-and-awe campaigns, tacti cal trickery shuttle between fact and speculation, action and script.
WORK ARCHIVE
EXHIBITIONS
NEWS
Along with some of my beloved colleagues work, mine has been featured in the Russia Z, a list by @calvertjournal featuring the New Generation of Russian Artists #kraftblog ...
My piece “Kickback” from 2015 is currently on view as part of the show “Things” @annanova_gallery Kickback is a series of interventions into global fast fashion retail stores, in which the modified goods have been returned for further retail to establish critical commentaries on current consumption-production ethics. #kraftblog ...
I’m glad to be joining a panel discussion tomorrow titled “The Internet Culture and the Artists” organised by The Russian Museum as part of their series of talks on Russian Art. The talk will start at 5pm, Moscow time. GMT+3 #russianmuseum #virtualrussianmuseum #kraftblog ...
One of the CAS pieces I did in late 2019 and overlooked sharing here.
CAS_06 Female Portrait
From Content Aware Studies Series
Date Created:2019
Marble, Polyamide, GAN algorithms, custom 3D scanned dataset
Dimensions
26 x 20 x 23 cm
#egorkraftwork #cas #contentawarestudies #kraftblog ...
I’m happy to be part if this years @arselectronica programme as part of the show at @electromuseum Dataset vs Mindsets curated by @helenanikonole & @olgavad with one of the latest ongoing works Twelve Nodes, based on my research and cooperation with Fair Data and the team of Ethereum Foundation on data policies, decentralised approach to legislation of data, digital sovereignty, genesis and collapse of law and code as law #law #twelvenodes #kraftblog #arselectronica #ethereum more soon ...
While I continue to be horrified with this world being on fire, both physically and metaphorically, I’m also delighted to share that Content Aware Studies has been selected for the 2020 Lumen Prize @lumen_prize Shortlist which puts it through the final round of judging #contentawarestudies #cas #kraftblog #egorkraftwork ...
I'm #seriously honoured to share that Content Aware Studies have been long-listed for the international Lumen Art Prize along with a lot of seriously big work by most favourite colleagues of mine, incl. Casey Reas, Guy Ben-Ary and many others (see link below)
shorturl.at/diETW
#cas #lumenartprize #egorkraftwork #kraftblog ...
Something that I overlooked and didn’t share, but earlier this year my film on Content Aware Studies research featuring an interview with Jussi Parikka, had been included in the Exhibition programme of the project “Measure of Chaos” in Novosibirsk, Russia. The programme includes works by contemporary artists in the field of Art & Science. The selected projects is represented via three discursive trajectories incl: - Quantum in the Arts, Life Forms and Non-Life Forms. More new work soon. #cas #contentawarestudies #chaosemasure #egorkraftwork #kraftblog ...
Egor Kraft
b. 1986 Saint-Petersburg, Russia Lives and works in Moscow and Berlin
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studio[at]egorkraft.com
EDUCATION
2008 Gerlesborg School of Fine Art / SWE
2011 The Rodchenko Art School / prof. A. Shulgin, Moscow, RUS
2014 Academy of Fine Arts / prof. C. Ruhm, Vienna, AUT
2015 Central Saint Martins College / London, GBR 2017 Strelka Institute, The New Normal / prof. B. Bratton, Moscow, RUS
Cosmoscow / Moscow, RU
5th Ural Industrial Biennial: Main Project / Yekater- inburg, RU
2018
Ars Electronica / Post City, Linz, AUT
Open Codes / ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE
The New State of The Living / PERMM, RU
Akkta / Solo Show / Anna Nova, St. Petersburg, RUS
Vienna Contemorary / Solo booth / Vienna, AUT Impakt Festival / Utrecht, NLD
BIO
Egor Kraft works at the intersection of arts, media, technology, film, critical design and research.
Egor acquired his education from Gerlesborg School of Fine Art (SE), Moscow Rodchenko Art School (RU), Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT), Central Saint Martin’s College (UK) and ‘The New Normal’ at Strelka Institute (RU).
He participated in Ars Electronica (AT), ‘Open Codes’ at ZKM (DE), 5th Ural Industrial Biennial, 5th and 2nd Moscow International Biennials for Young Art, WRO Biennial (PL), IMPAKT Festival (NL), Vienna Contemporary (AT), Manifesta X (RU), WRONG Biennale (WEB), 1st Kyiv Biennale and a number of shows including Hermitage, ZKM, Garage, MOMMA, MAMM, PERMM, Polytechnic Museum (Moscow), Tretyakov Gallery, Short Film Festival Cologne and many other international events.
Egor was nominated for various prizes including the State Innovation Art Prize twice (RU), Kuryokhin Prize twice (RU), Kandinsky Prize (RU), Creative En- terprise Award (UK) and the Pulsar Prize (FR).
STATEMENT
Egors work concerns itself with epistemic systems of humans and nonhuman agencies, speculative models and domain ontologies of information tech- nologies often expressed in a form of thought–ob- ject experiment practices. It involves artificial infor- mation systems, computational technologies, films, interventions often in conjunction with traditional medias. As part of his research based practice he tends to develop speculative narratives questioning co-existence of human irrational reasoning and a ubiquitous impartial and quantitative orders ren- dered by machinic agency and technologies of today and tomorrow.
Structures of exponentially increasing capacities, synthetic intelligence, data monopolies as power structures, ubiquitous mechanic analysis and inter- pretation, planetary scale computation, techno-pol- itics vs geopolitics, speculative crypto-economies, DNA design and genetic machine developments – all these and many other cognitive perspectives re- constitute the aspect of what we define as human in a new geological epoch.
In how far is the human aspect subject to technolo- gy? To what degree and from what viewpoint is the human aspect autonomous, unpredictable, faulty, ir- rational? How shall this human aspect coexist along with the precise ubiquitous machinic automated or- ganisation? Having once seen the surface under a microscope, we will never again see it as we knew it before. How may we redefine the 'human' after seeing the world through the lens of other synthetic forms of perception and cognition? Investigating these political, ethical, philosophical and aesthetic questions constitutes new challenges for artistic production, as primordially a ‘human’ project, yet perhaps not necessarily a human-centric one.
HONOURS AND AWARDS
2014
Creative Enterprise Award nominee / London, UK Kuryokhin Prize nominee, RUS
2015
Nova Art Prize nominee, RUS
2017
Innovation Prize / New Generation nominee, RUS 2017
Included in the New East 100 / Calvert Journal, UK 2018
Pulsar Prize Finalist / Paris, FRA
2019
Kuryokhin Prize nominee, RUS
STARTS Residencies fellow, EU
Innovation State Prize / Artist of the Year nominee, RUS Garage Museum Art & Technology Grant winner, RUS / DE Kandinsky Prize / Young Artist of the Year, RU
SELECTED TALKS
Winchester School of Art / Guest seminar, prof Jussi Parikka, UK
Impakt Festival 2018 / Utrecht, NLD
Smolny College / Liberal Arts & Sciences / St. Pe- tersburg, RUS
Content Aware Studies in conversation with Nadim Samman / Alexander Levy, Berlin, DEU
Human (un)limited / Ars Electronica Export, Moscow, RUS
ITMO University / St. Petersburg, RUS
National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow HSE, RUS
MMOMA, Daemons in the machine / Moscow, RUS ICA Moscow / Moscow, RUS
Geek Picnic / Moscow, RUS
Cyfest 11 / St. Petersburg, RUS
SOLO SHOWS
2008 State of Mine / Gerlesborgskolan, SE
2012 Now is Just Right Now / Taiga Space, St. Pe- tersburg, RU
2014 Wanderings 2.0 / Rundum, Tallinn, EE
2018 Ákkta / Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg, RU 2019 Content Aware Studies / Alexander Levy, Berlin, DE
t2019 Human (un)limited / Ars Electronica Export, Moscow, RUS
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS & FESTIVALS
2020
Still Human / Colección Solo, Madrid, ESP Accrochage / alexanderlevy gallery, Berlin, DE NEAR + FUTURES + QUASI + WORLDS / STATE Studio, Berlin, DE
2019
Art Dusseldorf with alexander levy / Dusseldorf, DE Kandinsky Prize Exhibition / MOMMA, Moscow, RU WRONG Biennale / WEB
Kuryokhin Prize Nominees 2019 / St. Petersburg, RU WRO Biennale 2019 / Wrocław, PL
Non-Aligned Networks / Valletta Contemporary, Malta, MT
AI & Intercultural Dialogue / Hermitage, St. Peters- burg, RU
State Innovation Prize Show / Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod, RU
Writing the History of the Future / ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE
Innovation as Method / Hermitage, St. Petersburg, RUS
Pulsar Art Prize / Paris, FRA
Daemons in the Machine / MOMMA, Moscow, RUS Cyfest 11 / Stiglitz Academy, St. Petersburg, RUS Paradoxical Hybrids / Electromuseum, Moscow / Vladivostok / RUS
Obsolete Progress / Polytechnic Museum, Moscow, RUS
2017
Citizen 6, Video Programme, Art Athens / Athens GRC
Innovation State Art Prize Show / MUAR, Moscow RUS
The New Normal Showcase / Strelka Institute, Moscow RUS
Parallel Vienna / Format.STRK Project statement / Vienna, AUT
Ambient Intelligence / screening at Enclave Gallery / London, UK
Prototype #4 / Kuryokhin Center, St. Petersburg RUS
2016
Playroom / Union Studios, London, UK
Deep Inside, V Moscow International Biennale for Young Art
Rodchenko Art School 10 Years / MAMM / Moscow RUS
Itinéraire Bis / Salon-de-Provence FRA
All Eyes On Me / Pechersky Gallery / Moscow RUS Then We Would Not Know It / Moscow RUS
How We Became Each Other / Moscow RUS
Art Prospect / Public Art Festival / St.-Petersburg RUS
Corridor I: Onkalo / Insitu, Berlin, Germany GER
2015
What to say when there’s nothing to / Udarnik, Moscow RUS
Reflecting on the Boundaries / Kuryokhin Center, St. Petersburg RUS
On the trail of "Pop Mechanics” / Kuryokhin Center, St. Petersburg RUS
2014
Printed Matter / Manifesta 10 Programme / St. Pe- tersburg, RUS
2013
Art En Face / Manezh, St. Petersburg, RUS
No Translation / Museum for Applied Arts, Moscow, RUS
Pop Up / Tretyakov Gallery Krymsky Val, Moscow, RUS
2012
Apocalypse & Rebirth / Chocolate House, Kiev UKR Originalcopy / Fluc am Praterstern, Vienna, AUT 5th International Art Moves Festival / Toruń, POL
2011
Infiltration Series 6 / Paradiso, Amsterdam, NLD The Ribbons / The Galleries, Sydney, AUS INDI_VISUAL / Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, RUS
No Limitation / Presidential library, St Petersburg, RUS
Insight & Foresight / Garage Museum, Moscow, RUS
2010
II Young Art Biennale “Qui vive?” / Moscow, RUS
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