Today and tomorrow are the last days to see my show Lies, Half-Truths & Propaganda [The Bad, the Worse, and the Worst] at alexanderlevy gallery in their new space at Alt Moabit 110, Berlin. The show came about as a response to the brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine. It features a series of works of invited by me artists including those from Ukraine as well as a series of ideas and prototypes that utilise web3 and other developments to fight misinformation that is at the heart of propaganda tactics heavily instrumentalised in this warfare. I will post more on each of the included works later. Photo credit (c) Trevor Good PS I will be at the gallery tomorrow if you would like a guided tour. #kraftwork #kraftblog #egorkraft #hashd0x #alexanderlevy (at alexander levy) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cen76cPLz1N/?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=