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Anna Engelhardt

 is an alias I use as a research-based video artist and writer based in Dover, UK. My investigative practice follows the traces of material violence, focusing on what could be seen as the 'ghost' of information. I work with toxic information environments that stem from structures of extraction, occupation and dispossession. I see through this data haze by combining satellite data, digital reconstruction and fictional devices. Informed by decolonial approaches, my work interrogates Russia's imperialist interventions. 

  



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My work has been shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), transmediale, Ars Electronica, Kyiv Biennial, BFI London Film Festival, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, The Henie Onstad Triennial for Photography and New Media, Steirischer Herbst, National Gallery of Art (Lithuania), Aksioma, V.O Curations, Vancouver International Film Festival, Gossamer Fog Gallery. I performed at Venice Biennale of Architecture, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Studio Voltaire, Foto Colectania. My texts have been published by e-flux, The Funambulist, Journal of Visual Culture, Visual and New Media Review, NERO Editions, Institute of Networked Cultures, Digital War Journal, European Review. I am a co-editor of "Chimeras: Inventory of Synthetic Cognition" (2022, Onassis Foundation).&#38;nbsp; 

Selected Projects&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; Terror Element &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 




&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 2025, 25’00 video installation, CGI, archival footage.
Set in a modern-day crime lab, this hybrid documentary explores how images of science are weaponised to project state power. Nina, a reclusive forensic expert, uncovers a videotape about a notorious series of explosions across Russia in 1999.Combining digital reconstructions and archival material, the film examines the contradictory statements presented by authorities to justify the second invasion of Chechnya. Drawn into the grainy television footage, Nina tries to understand how crime labs became tools in this cryptic powerplay. Slowly, her laboratory begins to resemble the televised one. Doubt seeps in: could her own methods be part of this haunting legacy?




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&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Onset &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp;




&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 2023, 25’00 video installation, CGI, found footage.

A demon roams through an ominous synthetic environment, reconstructed from satellite images of Russian air bases in Syria, Belarus, and Ukraine. In Onset, Engelhardt and Cinkevich craft an unholy alliance of medieval demonology, investigative research, and CGI animation to uncover the hidden life of these military outposts.



&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Trailer&#38;nbsp; ⊹&#38;nbsp; 
Full Project Details (PDF)











&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Death Under Computation





&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 2022, textile diagrams, holograms, CGI, website.An investigation into colonial logic of Russian warfare through the largely unknown history of Soviet military cybernetics. 
Looking into the hardware and software behind Russian invasions, Death Under Computation imagines how we can resist weapons developed in the age of algorithmic control.







&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Website&#38;nbsp; ⊹&#38;nbsp; Full Project Details (PDF)









&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Adversarial Infrastructure



&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 2020, 10’00 video, CGI, deepfake.Initial research into the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine yielded a key insight: logistical infrastructure is a form of hybrid warfare. The film delves into the history of the contemporary Crimean Bridge, a propaganda megaproject built to connect Crimea to Russia.







&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; VideoAwards

  





Film London Artists' Moving Image Network (FLAMIN) fellowship 23-24 〥 Artist-in-residence at Medialab Matadero Madrid, 23-24 〥 Artist-in-residence at transmediale festival in collaboration with Pro Helvetia, 08-10/22 〥 Resident at Berlin platform ‘Trust’ and 0x Salon, 03-05/22

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Artist-in-residence at Akademie Schloss Solitude, 09-11/21〥Artist-in-residence Garage Digital 02-12/20.

Affiliations





Core faculty of the MA Information Design, Design Academy Eindhoven 〥 MA graduate Center for Research Architecture (Forensic Architecture studio) 〥 External faculty of the ‘Digital Democracies Institute’ led by Wendy Chun and Svitlana Matviyenko 〥 Faculty of ‘Future Studies Program’.



	
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		<title>Circuits of Truth</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2022 14:37:52 +0000</pubDate>

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 &#38;nbsp; Circuits of Truth


machinic.info/circuits-of-truth The project scrutinises the notions of authenticity and fake, foundational for our digital realm. Its website, introducing users to the various steps the content goes through to become 'true', reveals the digital assembly line that manufactures authenticity. The networks the project highlights span from tracking devices that spread fake news to cyber weapons that engage verified accounts.&#38;nbsp;The installation represents the contents of the domain machinic.info as physical elements, highlighting the entanglement of digital and material worlds. It turns digital artefacts, central to the website, into physical holograms, welcoming cyber objects into a gallery space.&#38;nbsp;
‘The Production of Post-Truth’, at Ugly Duck (London, UK) 09-10/2022, 'The Green Room' exhibition, curated by Reem Shadid at V.O Curations (London, UK), 10-11/2021; 'Rainbows End' exhibition, curated by HERVISIONS (Utrecht, Netherlands), 03/2021; 'Garage Digital' exhibition, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow, Russia), 02/2021; 'Adversarial Hacking' Symposium, Transmediale (Berlin, Germany), 12/2020.




	
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		<title>Adversarial</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2022 20:29:58 +0000</pubDate>

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&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Adversarial &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Infrastructure&#38;nbsp;





	
	







2020. CGI, deepfake, website, video, text






Investigation into the volumetric history of the Crimean annexation that employs deepfake technology as a research method. Dissecting the Crimean Bridge, the crystallised artefact of Russian colonial violence that spans through cyberspace no less than offline landscape, this project aims to assemble the new image of logistical infrastructures as a type of hybrid warfare.







Presented: 67th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Germany),&#38;nbsp; 05/2021; Ars Electronica, 2020; Mute Magazine; DEMO Moving Image Festival &#38;amp; Gossamer Fog Gallery, (London, UK), 07/2020;&#38;nbsp;International Journal of Creative Media Research; Magazyn RTV; LOA Gallery, (London, UK), 03/2020; ISSMAG Gallery, (Moscow, Russia), 01/2020.






	
Press: Art Monthly, Calvert Journal, Calvert Journal



	
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		<title>Protocols</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2022 20:49:10 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Anna Engelhardt</dc:creator>

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&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Protocols of
&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Immanent Conflicts





	
	







2020. CGI, website, video, text






Brings together speculations on systems of holographic warfare and research on logistics as a colonial strategy that lies between a dichotomy of military and civilian. Setting itself on the threshold between fiction and reality, this project aims to explore the dynamics of latent warfare and structural violence that invisibly inform the contemporary socio-political order on a global scale. 
Project made in collaboration with AUDINT. Commissioned by DEMO Moving Image Festival, London, UK and Gossamer Fog Fallery, London, UK.

www.gossamerfog.com/protocols_of_immanent_conflicts.html








	




Press: CLOT Magazine, ANTImateria



	
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2022 00:15:03 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Anna Engelhardt</dc:creator>

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Circuits of Truth, 2021


	
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Colonial Sediments, 2020


	
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Protocols of Immanent Conflict, 2020



	

	
	
	








	

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Caring for the Shaky Ground, 2020


	
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&#38;nbsp;Jewellery, 2019


	
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2022 08:53:48 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Anna Engelhardt</dc:creator>

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ForthcomingOn Space and Territory in Cyberwar: The Case of Electronic Terraforming 
Book chapter in ‘Cyberwar Topologies: In Struggle for a post-American Internet’ ed. by Svitlana Matviyenko and Kayla Hilstob.

Death under Logistical Computation:&#38;nbsp;Soviet Cybernetics and Reconnaissance Book chapter in ‘Recursive Colonialism, Artificial Intelligence and Speculative Computation’ ed. by The Critical Computation Bureau.&#38;nbsp;



Circuits of Truth: Process-oriented approach to digital fakes and authenticity



Article.&#38;nbsp;The Journal of Digital War.

“For he will kill you with his horrible sight” Compiling Belarus Political Book of Beasts





Article co-authored with Mark Cinkevich.&#38;nbsp;The Undocumented Histories Archive.


&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 2022

&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Chimeras: Inventory of Synthetic CognitionBook co-edited with Ilan Manouach. Onassis Foundation. Download PDF

&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Death Under Computation. The long shadow of Soviet cybernetics Interview. We make money not art. (October, 2022)


&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;War by Any Other Name: Patterns of Russian Colonialism

Article. The Funambulist . (July, 2022)


&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Adversarial InfrastructuresArticle. Against Catastrophe. (June, 2022)




&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Crimean Tatar Infrastructures of Decolonial CareArticle co-authored with Sasha Shestakova. European Review Journal. (May, 2022)

&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Insurgent ComputingInterview by 
Shintaro Miyazaki. COUNTER-N. (April, 2022)&#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; Imperial Power Grid: The Role of Energy in Russia’s Colonial Expansion
 

Article co-authored with Mark Cinkevich. Berliner Gazette, Mediapart. (April, 2022)
 German translation in Berliner Gazette:&#38;nbsp;Imperiale Stromnetze: Die Rolle der Energie bei Russlands Expansionsbestrebungen
&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Caring for the Shaky Ground
Article co-authored with Sasha Shestakova. Kajet Journal. Issue 05, On EasternFuturism (February, 2022)


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2021&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Swarm. A (Plat)form of Care
Inteview by Anca Rujoiu and Thomas Dumke for Digital Solitude, (December, 2021)
&#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; Anti-Colonialism and Decolonisation: USSR and Palestine



Article co-authored with Sasha Shestakova.

 Journal of Visual Culture, (August, 2021).
&#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; Anna Engelhardt: “It’s more difficult than you think to make viral and viable deepfakes”
Interview for Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg blog, (August, 2021).
&#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; Infrastructural Inquiries:&#38;nbsp;an interview with Lisa Parks

Interview for the project ‘Circuits of Truth’, (Ferburay, 2021)


&#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; Reconsidering Cyberwar:
an interview with Svitlana Matviyenko
Interview for the project ‘Circuits of Truth’, (January, 2021)


&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 
2020&#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; Why a Colonial Invasion is a Structure, not an Event

Article co-authored with Sasha Shestakova.

 EastEast Journal, (November, 2020).

&#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; How the Logistical Revolution Defined Modern Colonialism

Article co-authored with Sasha Shestakova.

 EastEast Journal, (November, 2020).

&#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; The Crimean Bridge and Infrastructural DeepfakeArticle. The Creative Journal of Creative Media Research, (October, 2020). Issue 5. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33008/IJCMR.202023
&#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; On the Dichotomies of MovementArticle. RTV Magazyne, (August, 2020). Issue 11. Polish translation: Link

&#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; Logistics of Neocolonial Violence

Interview by Felice Moramarco. NERO Editions, (July 24th, 2020).

&#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; Adversarial Infrastructure: The Crimean BridgeArticle. Mute Magazine, (July 7th, 2020).&#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; Helen Hester on Xeno-Solidarity and the Collective Struggle for Free Time


Interview 

co-authored with Sasha Shestakova.

 

Strelka Mag,

 (July, 2020).



&#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; The Futures of Russian DecolonisationStrelka Mag, (March 18th, 2020).

This is Badland magazine (April, 2022).


 Xeno-Futurism magazine (August, 2021). Status Research Platform (June, 6th, 2021).Russian translation in K.R.A.P.I.V.A. Decolonization: Link




	



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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2022 21:23:17 +0000</pubDate>

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	Augmented Infrastructures at War


In her talk, Engelhardt will elaborate on her practice that engages 
technical infrastructures that cast information in 
projectiles. Weaving together her work on cyber warfare, propaganda 
backends, and smart weapons, she will lay out the logistics of 
perception that supplies Russian colonial wars. If there is a relationship between production and destruction, as Harun 
Farocki suggested, how do production and destruction relate in 
information structures? To explore this connection further, Engelhardt 
will examine web-based methods that make her infrastructures co-exist, 
clash, and infiltrate the networks under investigation.


 
The University of Chicago, 2023
Goldsmiths MFA, 2022
HFG Karlsruhe, 2022
Henie Onstad, Oslo, Norway, 2022
Counter-Futuring Symposium at the ICI Berlin, 2022

The World I/As The Image Symposium at DECK Singapore, 2022

RadicalxChange Warsaw, 2022
	

Hardwired Obsolescence of Russian Colonialism


Although the Russian military claims to use high-tech weaponry that ushers in a future of remotely controlled digital battles, these weapons often malfunction in the material world. Tanks get stuck in the mud; military phones have no reception; ‘precision’ weapons are guided by pen and paper. These weapons are obsolete as soon as they are deployed – yet Russian colonial violence persists. These intergenerational wars subject their targets to repeated cycles of fear and violence. As the dead of one war haunt the dead of another, Engelhardt considers how to further the hardwired obsolescence of the Russian war machine.




Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, 2023
Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2023
Winchester School of Art, 2023
Akademie Schloss Solitude Fragile Solidarity festival, 2022

Teatro San Leonardo, Bologna, Italy, 2022

The Cost Of Neutrality, Goldsmiths, 2022


	Onset ⊹ Applied Demonology


‘Applied demonology’ is a method developed by Anna Engelhardt and Mark Cinkevich for interrogating the spectre of colonial violence. Beginning with the deployment of Russian troops, the artists explore the horrors of colonialism through the processes of possession, those gradual impositions of control over organisms that lead to their destruction from within. To scrutinise Russian military strategy as possession, they create an unholy alliance between demonology and open-source intelligence tools. Engelhardt and Cinkevich invite the audience to apply these investigative tools in practice. The demo will conclude with a session in which participants will learn to search for the vulnerabilities of the demon. Participants will be provided with the GPS coordinates of Russian military infrastructure. Classified until now, these structures are open for attack.
 


 
transmediale, 2023
Aksioma, 2023
nGBK, 2023

	

Infrastructural Horror: Soaring, Sprawling, Vast


In the 19th century, a ruin was a landscape for gothic horror. Today, monsters pervade infrastructure. With sprawling limbs and hulking frames made beyond comprehension, towering oil platforms, writhing wires and bottomless mines are omens of contemporary dread. Ill adapted to our faculty of representation, they make us radically vulnerable.

This performance lecture by Anna Engelhardt and Mark Cinkevich will present the genre of infrastructural horror. The artists define this new genre as a way to work through the infrastructure of Russian expansion and its inherent monstrosity. Infrastructural horror, developed for their new film Onset, summarises their findings on terror, the sublime and scale.




Aksioma - Kino Šiška, 2023



	𝔈𝔩𝔢𝔠𝔱𝔯𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔠 𝔗𝔢𝔯𝔯𝔞𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔤 ⊹ 
How to unfold cyberwar


This performance treats the web as a sticky matter, showing 
space as a weapon of capture in cyberwar. Enacting the topology of a 
cyber domain, her work-in-progress invites a user to sneak into the 
folds of cyber territories, warped and fictionalised by cyberwarfare. 
Engelhardt theorises these violent disturbances in space as a powerful 
military capability that she calls 'electronic terraforming', used in 
the Russian invasion of Ukraine through electronic guns, fake cellular 
towers, and GPS jammers.

Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2022&#38;nbsp;
 

	


From Anti-Colonial Hacking to Decolonial Cyberwar



Since the inception of
 “cyberwarfare”, the threat of anti-colonial hacking has haunted 
military strategists. From cyberwarfare to drone swarms, high-end 
technologies have been instrumental in anti-colonial resistance—the 
liberation of South Africa, the Chechen wars for independence, and the 
ongoing Syrian war, among many. Sophie Toupin, a postdoctoral researcher
 of anti-colonial communication technologies, will explore the potential
 of cyber insurgency in conversation with Anna Engelhardt.



Trust x 0xsalon, 2022&#38;nbsp;





	
𝔖(𝔚𝔞𝔯)𝔪 
𝔐𝔞𝔠𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔢: The Military Techno-Episteme from Cybernetics to Chaoplexity





Although
 the Russian military inhabits a digital imaginary, its weapons often 
malfunction in the material world. Looking into the history of high-tech
 weapons, one can see why military phones have no reception, and 
'precision' weapons are guided by pen and paper. Antoine Bousquet, 
philosopher of military science and technology, will explore the 'cyber'
 of 'cyber warfare', its scientific foundations, and its hardwired flaws
 in conversation with Anna Engelhardt.





Trust x 0xsalon, 2022 


 

	




𝔗𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔪𝔬𝔫𝔲𝔠𝔩𝔢𝔞𝔯 ℭ𝔶𝔟𝔢𝔯𝔴𝔞𝔯:Nuclear and cyber dystopias of the live broadcast.




The
 age of cyberwar, conceived with an attack on a nuclear facility, 
brought about the types of violence 'particularly complimentary' to 
those of nuclear threat. Nuclear and cyber dystopias culminated this 
year with the live broadcast of the Russian army shelling a nuclear 
power plant in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. Svitlana Matviyneko, cyberwar 
philosopher whose most recent research project concerns the nuclear 
politics of Chernobyl NPP, will explore the reality of ongoing 
thermonuclear cyberwar in conversation with 
Anna Engelhardt.





Trust x 0xsalon, 2022 



	


	

Beginnings and Ends of Colonialism
Undoing Imperial Temporalities



Like a thread, colonialism twists and coils in multiple directions rather than moving forwards in time. As the dead of one war haunt the dead of another, Anna Engelhardt and Sasha Shestakova think about how to welcome the finitude and amplify the obsolescence of colonial regimes.
 
transmediale 2022, Berlin, Germany
Foto Collectania, Barcelona, Spain, 2022
	
Perspectives on Russia's Imperialism in Eastern Europe
The full-scale invasion of Russia in Ukraine on February 24 have shaken the whole world. All of a sudden, previously marginalized discourses about the neocolonial and imperial Russian politics in Eastern Europe gained stronger meaning. What is the history behind these politics?
Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany, 2022


	
Circuits of Truth

Lecture as a part of the Digital Arts, a third-year undergraduate unit offered at the University of Sydney; School of Literature, Art and Media; Department of Media and Communications. 09/2021


	
Reputation VolatilityThe political economy of cyberwar
Anna Engelhardt invites Emily Rosamond to elaborate on the key economic principles of cyberwar in general and reputation warfare in particular.

	
Digital Workers’ Conference

Co-organised with Sara Culmann and eeefff group at Garage Museum of Contemporary art. 03/2021
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Full conference page
	
Couriers Are Never Late
Racialised Algorithms of Russian Logistics
Recursive Colonialism, Artificial Intelligence &#38;amp; Speculative Computation Symposium. 11/2020

	

Solidarity, History, Resistance
Symposium organised in commemoration of the genocide against Crimean Tatars. Centre of Contemporary Art ‘Typorgaphy’. 05/2021.



Spectral Volumes of Russian Cyber Warfare 
Paper presented at Digital Democracies Institute. 04/2021. Link



Caring for the Shaky Ground: Colonial ‘Weather’ and Decolonial ‘Weathering’ in the Crimean Peninsula&#38;nbsp;

Paper presented at “Violence, Aesthetics, Anthropocenes: Colonialism, Racism, Extractivism”. LSE, 04/2021



	

Postcolonial Knowledge and Art
A free course given as a part of DCC for ‘Educational Environment’. 10/2020 - 12/2020: Link



Looking from where? Decolonial Image Production

Lecture given as a part of DCC for Moscow International Experimental Film Festival. Moscow, Russia, 10/2020



Volumetric Spectrums of Russian Cyber Warfare
Conference ‘Conceptualizing a ‘Post-American’ Internet: Technology, Governance, and Geopolitics.’ Zhejiang, China, 10/2020




	
 
	
Xenotemporality: Unnatural TimePublic talk with Diann Bauer. Strelka Institute. Moscow, &#38;nbsp;Russia, 08.2020





	
	
Situated Deepfakes Workshop
LOA Gallery (London, UK). 03/2020
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Chimeras&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Inventory of Synthetic Cognition

Edited by Anna Engelhardt and Ilan Manouach, Onassis Foundation, 2022.
ISBN 978-618-85361-8-0




This volume attempts to disassemble and reformulate what one might understand as AI by taking apart both notions of 'artificiality' and 'intelligence' and seeing what new meaning they produce when recombined. It is an inventory in which one can find contributions from scholars and artists with interspecies, disability, monstrous, feminist, and decolonial approaches, as well as thinkers and technologists engaged in a broader field of AI. By questioning fabricated norms that constitute and maintain notions of 'artificial' and 'intelligence', this book acts as a toolbox one can use to merge these terms into a novel chimera.



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We summon the trickster of the natural order, chimera, both a mythical creature and a genetic phenomenon. In Greek mythology a chimera is a conspicuously fractured female monster, a lioness with a separate goat head stitched to her back and a snake for a tail. In genetics, a chimera is similarly defined as an organism whose disparate parts remain partially autonomous, resisting totalization into a whole. Chimeras are synthetic — i.e., produced through synthesis, a combination of parts forming a unified entity —rather than artificial— a copy from the authentic model defined by its opposition to the original. Drawing upon chimerism allows us to broaden 'artificial intelligence' into 'synthetic cognition'⁠—an approach that highlights the duality of 'artificial' and 'authentic', amplifies non-human methods of cognition and anticipates modes of symbiosis.


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Contributors !Mediengruppe Bitnik, 00Zhang, AA Cavia, Bassam Al-Sabah, K Allado-McDowell, Jamie Allen, Alexandra Anikina, Clemens Apprich, Sadie-Mae Arellano AKA ex.icon, Cris Argüelles, Marwa Azelmat, Olivia Banner, Medina Bazargali, Katherine Behar, Olga Boichak, Liliana Bounegru, Antoine Bousquet, Tega Brain, Vera Bühlmann, Mercedes Bunz, Louise Emily Carver, Guo Cheng, Imani Cooper Mkandawire, Matt Colquhoun, Juan Covelli, Florian Cramer, Laurent de Sutter, José Luis de Vicente, Stephanie Dinkins, Ezekiel Dixon-Román, Sean Dockray, Theodora Dryer, Mathew Dryhurst, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Grayson Earle, Diane Edwards, Paul N. Edwards, eeefff, Hasan Elahi, Fantastic little splash, fields harrington, Kaley Flowers, Fragmentin, Laura Forlano, Agata Foryciarz, Michele Gabriele, Pietro Gagliano, Alexandre Gefen, Anastasis Germanidis, Steve Goodman, Olga Goriunova, Anna Greenspan, Sam Gregory, Rafael Grohmann, Eran Hadas, Orit Halpern, Felicity Hammond, Rian Ciela Hammond, Lelia Marie Hampton, Stephanie Hankey, Adam Harvey, Florian Hecker, Line Henriksen, Holly Herndon, Louise Hickman, Joey Holder, Amy Ireland, Özgün Eylül İşcen, Natalia Janula, Adan Jerreat-Poole, Julia Kaganskiy, Christopher Kardambikis, Stella Andrada Kasdovasili, Elaine Kasket, Botond Keresztesi, Os Keyes, Kite aka Suzanne Kite, Anastasya Kizilovа, Bogna Konior, Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Chloê Langford, Lawrence Lek, Laura Lotti, Geert Lovink, Mattin, Robin Mackay, Umber Majeed, Kumbirai Makumbe, Suhail Malik, Christina Maraboutaki, Gena Marvin, Gabriel Massan, Svitlana Matviyenko, Isabel Millar, Constantinos Miltiadis, An Xiao Mina, Thomas Moynihan, Alejandra Muñoz, Nina Muro, Mycological Twist, Reza Negarestani, Mihalis A. Nicolaou, Simone C. Niquille, Bahar Noorizadeh, Rodrigo Ochigame, Omsk Social Club, Bianka Oravecz, Yannis Panagakis, Eva Papamargariti, Luciana Parisi, Oana Pârvan, Victoria Pacheco, Philippe Pasquier, Porpentine Charity Heartscape, Luiza Prado de O. Martins, PWR, Oleksiy Radynski, Patricia Reed, Kalli Retzepi, Tabita Rezaire, Jennifer Rhee, Miro Roman, Emily Rosamond, Rachel Rossin, Bassem Saad, Anne-Françoise Schmid, Pete Sharp, Yannis Siglidis, Caroline Sinders, Lex Sokolin, James Steinhoff, Abram Stern (aphid), Jenna Sutela, Tok Thompson, Miró Ingmar Tiebe, Viktor Timofeev, Natasha Tontey, Theo Triantafyllidis, Trust, Francis Tseng, Prodromos Tsiavos, Ayatgali Tuleubek, Marek Tuszynski, Lesia Vasylchenko, VOJD, Martin Zeilinger, Liliia Zemnukhova, Joanna Zylinska, zzyw




Edited by Anna Engelhardt and Ilan Manouach&#38;nbsp;

Design Typical Organization&#38;nbsp;
Publication year 2022&#38;nbsp;Language English&#38;nbsp;Pages 536 ISBN 978-618-85361-8-0






	



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Conceived before the Russian escalation of its ongoing war against Ukraine, this work was finished in the time of numerous war crimes inflicted by Russia on Ukrainian territory and people. As a Russian, I strongly condemn Russian colonial expansion and demand to halt Western sponsorship of the Russian war machine through the consumption of Russian gas and oil.
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A hidden presence tracks American soldiers through the rainforest. The military team, rendered as colourful bodies through the infrared vision of the stalker, sense the threat. Spooked, they peer into the foliage but cannot locate the creature who hunts them down, one by one. It is camouflaged, translucent, almost impossible to target and destroy. Enraged and hopeless, the soldiers start shooting blindly into the trees.





 
	


	
	 
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What drives the plot of the 1987 film 'Predator' is the formula ‘visibility equals death' (Bousquet, 2018). Regardless of the lethality of a gun, one cannot aim at an enemy one cannot see. Simultaneously, exposure to the enemy's gaze means exposure to their violence.

The Predator is akin to the guerilla warrior or resistance fighter, less visible and better informed than their numerically superior enemies. Their advantage depends on knowledge of the terrain — its valleys, hills, foliage, and topography. In colonial wars, resistance fighters rely on this information asymmetry to succeed with their tactics and strategies — ambush, sabotage, and constant discreet movement of supplies and forces.






	



	
	

During the 1950s, the Soviet Union developed an intricate sensorial apparatus to counter the persistent lack of information in its colonial wars — the processing systems that guided missiles, rockets, and drones. The key to this 'nervous system' was the real-time data processing enabled by military cybernetics, a classified scientific field developed in the early 1950s. The schematic diagram of a Tu-123 drone flying over its target explains the goals of military cybernetics. Operated remotely, the drone allowed rapid mechanised data collection and processing, moving beyond manual data entry such that recording could keep pace with ongoing battles in real-time.



Below: S-25, air-defence system, USSR, 1955.1.Object under defence 2.Control centre 3.Radiolocation of the target and altitude measurement 4.Guided missiles



	
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Tu-123, drone, USSR, 1960


	
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Cybernetic weapons are intrinsically location machines. They find targets, not map space. Still, they must compute a range of spatial categories and synthesise them into coordinates to aim at someone or something. To calculate their target, these weapons must analyse the space in which the target body exists. Digital maps like radar and GPS do not represent actual space but only reduce it to chess-like boards. Location machines portray space as voids. The grid renders territory hollow.




	


	
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Missiles cannot hide in the air. Unlike the guerilla on familiar territory, missiles cannot conceal themselves in a ravine or fade into the forest. Air defence systems can disregard space and still shoot down missiles, but the nuances of the landscape — hills, valleys, forests, tunnels — break the offensive of colonial wars.





Below: Diagram of&#38;nbsp;an automated military control system.
Signs top to bottom: Selection of the target; “Memory”; New position;&#38;nbsp;Gunfir; An arithmetic unit; Result.



	



	
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Born to serve the colonial gaze, military cybernetics can only sense targets, discarding the space they use to hide. The martial sensorium is hardwired with this inherent flaw of the cybernetic paradigm. Shooting into the woods with the vast spectrum of sensors, soldiers drown in information, still unable to see.






	
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Anna Engelhardt for HMKV (Hartware MedienKunstVerein). 2022

Title, diagrams’ treatment by Anamika Singh
&#38;nbsp;First GIF from Predator (1987)
 Diagrams from Cybernetics in Military Affairs (1963) Goncharenko, M. N. 1963. Moscow, DOSAAF (Volunteer Society for Cooperation with the Army, Aviation, Navy).Quote from The Eye of War: Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone (2018) Bousquet, A.



	

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