Fact Caching
2022.
Electronic Ink screens, Plexiglass, Swarm Blockchain and Swarm Nodes, Fragments of films of investigative journalists.
Hashterms
A form of environmental pollution that constitutes a vastly growing infoscape, resulting from the epidemics of information production and consumption.
Describes logistics of information which is an essential functional operation of any computing system.
Relates to the regimes of sovereignty that are produced in their own image by large software stacks and platforms. Softvereignty both competes with and overlaps with traditional forms of state sovereignty.
Relates to epistemic technological regimes capable of producing what may be perceived as truth. Could be applied to both factual and fictional events, narratives and evidences.
Fact Caching provides an infrastructural proposal to protect journalistic data and investigative work from censorship and blocking. Using decentralized blockchain storage infrastructures, simultaneously stored on thousands of nodes, previously banned journalistic archives become safe from censorship and IP-blocking.
Fact Caching provides an infrastructural proposal to protect journalistic data and investigative work from censorship and geopolitical blocks. Using decentralised blockchain storage infrastructures, journalistic archives become safe from censorship and IP-blocking. Displaying content hosted in a decentralised storage network: 6 E-ink screens feature excerpts of banned media in Russia, uploaded to a decentralised archive to protect them from repeated censorship. The data is distributed through Swarm nodes across the planet-wide infrastructure. Russia’s contested relationship with the free press has a long, ongoing history.
The Committee to Protect Journalists states that Russia was the country with the 10th largest number of journalists killed since 1992, 26 of them since the beginning of 2000, including four from the outlet ’Novaya Gazeta’.
Following 24 February 2022, the already difficult relationship with independent journalism reached a climax with the criminalisation of any news or information that did not align with the state narrative. Following the introduction of the 'fake news' law, several news outlets were forced to close as they refused to operate under state-imposed censorship. Among these were the last remaining independent live-breaking news agencies operating from within Russia. Just hours after journalists and staff said goodbye to their audience, government employees seized their data archive. Folliwng with, the entire archive, that existed on YouTube after many years of live coverage, was also deleted upon request from the local censorship agency. The government waged informational warfare on its own people by restricting their access to information.
Fact Caching, on view at the Lies, Half-Truths & Propaganda solo exhibition at the alexanderlevy Gallery, Berlin, DEU. 2022.
Fact Caching
Hashterms
A form of environmental pollution that constitutes a vastly growing infoscape, resulting from the epidemics of information production and consumption.
Describes logistics of information which is an essential functional operation of any computing system.
Relates to the regimes of sovereignty that are produced in their own image by large software stacks and platforms. Softvereignty both competes with and overlaps with traditional forms of state sovereignty.
Relates to epistemic technological regimes capable of producing what may be perceived as truth. Could be applied to both factual and fictional events, narratives and evidences.
Fact Caching provides an infrastructural proposal to protect journalistic data and investigative work from censorship and blocking. Using decentralized blockchain storage infrastructures, simultaneously stored on thousands of nodes, previously banned journalistic archives become safe from censorship and IP-blocking.
Fact Caching provides an infrastructural proposal to protect journalistic data and investigative work from censorship and geopolitical blocks. Using decentralised blockchain storage infrastructures, journalistic archives become safe from censorship and IP-blocking. Displaying content hosted in a decentralised storage network: 6 E-ink screens feature excerpts of banned media in Russia, uploaded to a decentralised archive to protect them from repeated censorship. The data is distributed through Swarm nodes across the planet-wide infrastructure. Russia’s contested relationship with the free press has a long, ongoing history.
The Committee to Protect Journalists states that Russia was the country with the 10th largest number of journalists killed since 1992, 26 of them since the beginning of 2000, including four from the outlet ’Novaya Gazeta’.
Following 24 February 2022, the already difficult relationship with independent journalism reached a climax with the criminalisation of any news or information that did not align with the state narrative. Following the introduction of the 'fake news' law, several news outlets were forced to close as they refused to operate under state-imposed censorship. Among these were the last remaining independent live-breaking news agencies operating from within Russia. Just hours after journalists and staff said goodbye to their audience, government employees seized their data archive. Folliwng with, the entire archive, that existed on YouTube after many years of live coverage, was also deleted upon request from the local censorship agency. The government waged informational warfare on its own people by restricting their access to information.
Fact Caching, on view at the Lies, Half-Truths & Propaganda solo exhibition at the alexanderlevy Gallery, Berlin, DEU. 2022.
Studio Addresses
Ikejiri, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Neubau, Vienna, Austria
Studio
E. G. Kraft – artist-researcher, founder
Anna Kraft – researcher, director
Contact:
mail[at]kraft.studio
Studio Addresses
Ikejiri, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Neubau, Vienna, Austria
Contact
mail[at]kraft.studio
Studio
E. G. Kraft – artist-researcher, founder
Anna Kraft – researcher, director
