Egor Kraft CV Last Updated July 31, 2025
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Born 1986 in St. Petersburg. Lives and works in Tokyo & Vienna Web: kraft.studio Links & Info: kraft.bio Email: [email protected]
Egor Kraft (japanese 空羅太 瑛士) is an artist & thinker whose work acknowledges the disrupted modern condition as a consequence of radical techno-cultural planetary reconfiguration. He lives a mobile life, splitting his time between Europe and Asia, with homes in Tokyo and Vienna, as well as deep ties to London, Berlin and previously Moscow. Kraft's multi-award winning work has exhibited worldwide, including festivals Ars Electronica [AT], Siggraph Asia [JP], Impakt Festival, [NL], WRO Biennial [PL], and such institutions as ZKM [DE], MAXXI [IT], Jeu De Paume [FR], Onassis Foundation [GR], Hermitage Museum [RU], Espacio Fundación Telefónica [ES], iMAL [BE] and many other 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 honorable mention [EU], the 2022 Austrian Blockchain Award [AT], and numerous other awards and nominations. He is a lecturer at European and Asian universities, author of publications and speaker at international conferences. His research driven practice involves thought-objects, Al models, data-monuments, films, essays, hardware contraptions, web-based executions, virtu-real embodiments, investigative inquiries, hacktivist interventions, speculative proposals, hyper-poetry and other forms.
These efforts are informed by phenomena, developments, ideas, and terms coined by contemporary thinkers—whether self-made or part of the general discourse—including speculative philosophies, cosmotechnics, technological pluralisms, histories of industrial revolutions, latent spaces, ambient security protocols, new memory architectures, algorithmic diffusions, new epistemic challenges, existential feedback loops, domain ontologies, speculative narratives, big-time proposals, deep timescales, geologies of media, unstable climates, automated ruralisms, post-Westphalian politics, self-sovereign networks, ultra-wideband connectivities, information superhighways, planetary logistics, data extractivisms, algorithmic echo chambers, post-scarcity, engineered cognitions, quantitative regimes, ultrasonic interventions, networked incentives, tactical trickery, open-source hardware, Westphailures, techno-cultural pluralisms, non-human agencies, tactical hacktivisms, metafictions, reverse archaeologies, synthetic histories, cognitectures, softveriegnties, algocracies, epistemachineries, engineered cognoscapes, thinkware, knowlegistics, computecologies, AIsthetics, engineered truths, networked sovereignties, AIgencies, the intelligence of things and more.
2024 Institute for Postnatural Studies | Madrid, ESP PgD Postnatural Independent Program
2022-2023 Geidai University of the Arts | Tokyo, JPN Visting Researcher | Intermedia Arts department under supervision of prof. Kiyoshi Furokawa
2017 Strelka Institute: The New Normal | Moscow, RUS PgD Postgraduate research programme, directed by Benjamin H. Bratton
2014-2015 Central Saint Martins College | UAL London, GBR BA (Hons) Fine Arts, track 4D
2011-2016 Academy of Fine Arts | Vienna, AUT MFA Mag. in Arts & Digital Media
2009-2011 The Rodchenko Art School | Moscow, RUS BFA, Media Art | Class prof. Alexei Shulgin
2007-2008 The Gerlesborg School of Fine Art | Bohuslän, SWE Foundation studies
1998-2004 Art School №1 | St. Petersburg, RUS Prelimiary Artistic Studies
2024 Keynote at the Field of Art & Design for Spatial Experience Department | Joshibi University, Tokyo, JPN
2024 Playshop | China Academy of Arts, Hangzhou, CHN The Epoch of Transformative Technologies | Hangzhou, CHN
2023 ****University of Art & Design Linz | Kunstuniversität Linz, AUT Department: Institut für Medien & Visuelle Kommunikation Course leader: Art and image production in the context of Al
2022 NECS Lecture Series “Content Aware and Other Case Studies” | European Network for Cinema and Media Studies
2020 Winchester School of Arts | Talking Heads Lecture Series, GBR
2020 Winchester School of Art | Guest seminar on AI and speculative narratives with AMT Research group prof Jussi Parikka & Ryan Bishop, GBR
2020 ITMO University | St. Petersburg, RUS Art & Science MA programme. Course tutor: The Work of Art in the Age of Algorithmic Reproduction
2017–2022 Artistic & design direction at Ethereum Swarm | A software and a protocol for decentralised storage on a blockchain network
ZKM, Center for Art & Media, Karlsruhe, DEU; Colección Solo, Madrid, ESP; Cyland Video Archive, USA | RUS; MAMM Multimedia Art Museum Moscow, RUS; Ripley’s, Orlando, FL, USA; Sergey Kuryokhin Center for Modern Art, RUS
