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A wonderful outdoor show curated by brilliant @tactical_tech had opened in front of Berlin's @deutschestechnikmuseum last week as part of @berlinartweek and followed by a screening programme at @hauberlin Amongst many great things it features works by some of my favourite colleagues across the space incl, @disnovation, @nikolasmaigret, Vladan Joler, Agnieszka Kurant, @liam_y, @coralievogelaar and yours truly. #kraftwork #egorkraftwork #kraftblog (at Berlin Technik Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/CivGpGyLeGc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Save the date: EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE AN OUTDOOR EXHIBITION BY TACTICAL TECH Berlin. DE. Outside the German Museum of Technology. Opening Event: 14 Sep, 7:00 pm. The outdoor exhibition by Tactical Tech, co-produced by HAU Hebbel am Ufer, explores through the lens of technology how people get informed, make decisions and respond to current global crises like climate change, pandemics or political polarisation. Dear Berliners, you've been missed, hope to CU this coming Wednesdays evening at Tempelhofer Ufer / corner to Trebbiner Straße. The lineup is fantastic and includes the work of over 50 artists, researchers and technologists, including Paolo Cirio, Marjolijn Dijkman, Disnovation.org, Olalekan B. Jeyifous, Vladan Joler, Egor Kraft, Agnieszka Kurant, Sybille Neumeyer, Liam Young, and more. I'm glad to be showing good old 'The New Color' #kraftwork #egorkraftwork #kraftblog https://www.instagram.com/p/CiVX3wkOFX_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The Lisbon edition of the show NEAR + FUTURES + QUASI + WORLDS recently ended. After having traveled for a while the pieces are to be displayed again in Madrid this coming October. The travelling exhibition NEAR + FUTURES + QUASI + WORLDS was presenting the selection of artworks from twelve artists in Berlin, Lisbon and Bologna, thus surveying seven years of S+T+ARTS: an initiative of the European Commission to foster collaborations between art, science, and technology since 2015. Massive thanks to @startseu, curators Manuel Cirauqui and Silvana Fiorese, State Studio and the colleagues who took part in the show incl. Evelina Domnich and Dmitry Gelfand, Félicie d’Estienne d’Orves, Forensic Architecture, Iris van Herpen, Julia Koerner, So Kanno and Takayuki Yamaguchi, Kasia Molga & Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner, and Etsuko Yakushimaru. #kraftwork #egorkraftwork #kraftblog https://www.instagram.com/p/CidFv8EMh6C/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Here's a few more details from the recent piece Decentralised Embargo [2022] EnBW (client of Gazprom Germania) electricity contract, rack case, open frame server including four Nvidia 3090 GPUs, custom water loop, Ethereum blockchain mining software In May 2022, a month after Russian armed forces invaded Ukraine, the gallery in Berlin was requested by the artist to sign an electricity supply contract with the energy provider EnBW. Known for being a client of Gasprom Germania, a daughter company of a major Russian state-owned multinational energy corporation ranked as the largest publicly listed natural gas company in the world, EnBW generates electricity by burning Russian fossil fuels. In this gallery, the artist set up an ultra-powerful computing server; powered with EnBW-supplied electricity it was mining Ethereum cryptocurrency throughout the duration of the show. This network participation was rewarded with Ethereum tokens, that were transferred to the official wallet address for donations to the government of Ukraine, an invaded country at war. Thus suggesting a strategic diversion at the largest issue within the European economies today - dependence on Russian gas as an infrastructural necessity despite the apparent misalliance with Russian outward politics, and the resulting armed conflict. #kraftwork #egorkraftwork #kraftblog (at alexander levy) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChpN7ynM6Yk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Decentralised Embargo (2022) EnBW (client of Gazprom Germania) electricity contract, rack case, open frame server including four Nvidia 3090 GPUs, custom water loop, Ethereum Blockchain mining software The gallery in Berlin, where the installation was initially exhibited in May 2022, was requested by the artist to sign an electricity supply contract with the energy provider EnBW. The company is known for being a client of Gasprom Germania, a daughter company of a major Russian state-owned multinational energy corporation ranked as the largest publicly listed natural gas company in the world. EnBW generates electricity for the German market by burning Russian fossil fuels. This electricity is then supplied to a powerful computing server set up by the artist as part of his exhibition in the Berlin-based gallery. Custom-assembled hardware components perform the energy-consuming algorithmic process of validating blocks on the Ethereum blockchain, a so-called cryptocurrency mining operation throughout the entire duration of the exhibition. This network participation is rewarded with Ethereum tokens, tradable at their market price. While the machine is mining, these tokens are being transferred to the official Ethereum wallet address for donations to the government of Ukraine, an invaded country at war. Via this chain of events, the installation suggests a strategic diversion at perhaps the largest issue within the European economies today - dependence on Russian fossil fuels as an infrastructural necessity despite the apparent misalliance with Russian outward politics, its agenda regarding Ukraine's political inclination towards Europe, and the resulting atrocious armed conflict. The work was initially presented as part of my solo show Lies, Half-Truths & Propaganda [The Bad, the Worse, and the Worst] at alexanderlevy gallery during the gallery weekend in Berlin. #kraftwork #egorkraftwork #kraftblog https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg_3vKdupOr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

I meant to post it earlier when we had a short relief of the bloody Facebook and other nonsense being off for a bit. I did this image and a t-shirt for my hacktivist folks at Fair Data Society, the DAO working on a community governed legislation of Fair Data Principles and a corresponding certificate to become a standard in Web3. I'm a proud member of the team and the project. #dao #fds #fairdata #egorkraftwork #kraftblog https://www.instagram.com/p/CU-aTiwsXoR/?utm_medium=tumblr

I'm honoured to share that my first written piece, titled 'On Content Aware & Other Case Studies' will debut as a published paper followed by tomorrows presentation at Art Machines 2 Conference in Hong Kong. The paper was co-written along with my friend and colleague Ekaterina Kormilitsyna. I will also hold a separate artist talk as part of the conference. This work is somewhat dear to me as a format in which I'm looking to further extend and unpack my research besides practical outcomes. It is also a result of limited mobility and access to means of production in which these ongoing circumstances have put me along with many of my colleagues. Massive thanks to Jussi Parikka for all the feedback and to Matthew Lenkiewicz for conversations that triggered this piece. #artmachines2 #artmachines #cas #contentawarestudies #egorkraftwork #kraftblog (at 𝙃𝙊𝙉𝙂 𝙆𝙊𝙉𝙂) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQCe1sjHDBN/?utm_medium=tumblr

Working on building a new website from scratch. It’ll feature new films, texts and things I have been patiently working these past months. More soon. #www #moresoon #egorkraftwork (at The Internet) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFuJtbMndgP/?igshid=1x5d4r9wb0hcr