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Zu Gast: Egor Kraft
Montag, 12.06.2023, 18:15 Uhr
Visuelle Kommunikation, 4. OG., Lecture Theatre (H8.04.26)

Egor Kraft (born 1986, St. Pe­ters­burg, Rus­sia) is an in­ter­dis­ci­pli­nary artist work­ing at the in­ter­sec­tion of arts, me­dia, tech­nol­ogy, film 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), Tokyo Gei­dai Uni­ver­sity of The Arts and ‘The New Nor­mal’ at Strelka In­sti­tute (RU). He was af­fil­i­ated as a re­search fel­low at the Uni­ver­sity of Southamp­ton (UK) and Tokyo Gei­dai Uni­ver­sity of the Arts (JP).

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 (UA) and a num­ber of in­ter­na­tional shows in­clud­ing those in State Her­mitage Mu­seum, Russ­ian Mu­seum, ZKM (DE), Garage Mu­seum (RU), MOMMA, MAMM, PERMM, Moscow Poly­tech­nic Mu­seum, Tretyakov Gallery, Onas­sis Foun­da­tion (GR), HAU Hebbel am Ufer (DE), Short Film Fes­ti­val Cologne (DE) and many other in­ter­na­tional events. He lec­tured and led guest sem­i­nars in Win­ches­ter Schools of Art (UK), New Me­dia Lab (RU), HSE Uni­ver­sity (RU) and other pro­grammes. His es­says and re­search pa­pers were pub­lished in peer re­viewed jour­nals and pre­sented at Art Ma­chines 2 (HK), Pol­i­tics Of The Ma­chines (DE), Im­pakt Fes­ti­val (NL) and other con­fer­ences.

Egor has re­ceived New Tech­no­log­i­cal Art Award in 2022 (BE). He was also nom­i­nated for var­i­ous prizes in­clud­ing the State In­no­va­tion Art Prize twice (RU), Kuryokhin Prize twice (RU), Kandin­sky Prize (RU), Cre­ative En­ter­prise Award (UK), the Pul­sar Prize (FR) and Lu­men Prize. He is a fel­low of STARTS Res­i­den­cies (EU/​UK), Garage Mu­se­ums Art & Tech­nol­ogy 2019 (RU/​DE) and BMKÖS Per­spec­tive, In­no­va­tion, Art 2021 (AT) grant pro­grammes.

In 2017 he was in­cluded in the New East 100, a list of peo­ple, places and pro­jects shap­ing our world to­day by Lon­don based Calvert Jour­nal.

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