Cognitectures, Datatopias & Technological Pluralisms is a keynote rich in audiovisual materials on topics researched by the author through practice-based inquiries into artificial memory, the aesthetics of automation, synthetic knowledge production and absorption, new networked cognitive infrastructures, and both real and seemingly real dichotomies between synthetic or ‘natural’, real or virtual, institutional or cloud-based, inevitable or optional, and other rapidly transforming notions and narratives at the core of the current industrial shift. The author addresses these not only through established academic research formats, but also through self-established practice-based art-science-case-study approaches leading to hybrid formats of representation.
BIO
Egor G. Kraft is an artist, thinker and critical designer whose work acknowledges the disrupted modern condition as a consequence of radical techno-cultural planetary reconfiguration.
Kraft completed studies in art, media & design philosophy at the Academy of Fine Arts (Vienna, AT), London’s Central St. Martin’s College and ‘The New Normal’ at Strelka Institute directed by Benjamin H. Bratton. He was a research fellow at the University of Southampton (Southampton, UK) and Geidai University (Tokyo, JP).
Kraft’s multi-award winning work has exhibited worldwide, including Ars Electronica Festival, Siggraph Asia, Impakt Festival, WRO Biennial, ZKM, MAXXI, Jeu De Paume and many other international museums and galleries.
Kraft is the recipient of the 2023 Lumen Prize (UK), the 2022 New Technological Art Award (BE), the 2023 S+T+ARTS Prize honourable mention (EU), the 2022 Austrian Blockchain Award (AT), and numerous other awards and nominations.
Kraft’s research-driven practice includes thought-objects, AI models, data-monuments, films, essays, hardware, web-based executions, virtual embodiments, investigative inquiries, hacktivist interventions, speculative proposals, hyper-poetry, and more.
