Whole Earth Archive by Julius von Bismarck—the last exhibition in the old premises of alexander levy gallery on Rudi-Dutschke-Strasse 26, 10969 Berlin—is on view through 1 May.

Three massive rotating slate stones with retroreflective mirror surfaces entitled Time Apparatus float at the centre of the exhibition space. Evoking images of orbiting asteroids, the sculptures represent models of von Bismarck’s envisioned space archive: “Looking far into space means looking far back in time; this leads to the conclusion that, reversely, an observer in space, would see Earth as it appeared in the past.” “Combining the principle of the limited speed of light with a set-up of huge mirrors in the cosmos would allow us to access this past. The light radiating away from Earth can be understood as a storer, the mirrors placed in the cosmos as a provider of data.” The retroreflective structure of the Time Apparatus-sculptures formulates this idea by using microscopic mirror planes that bounce back each image to its source.

In the exhibition Lies, Half-Truths & Propaganda [The Bad, the Worse, and the Worst] the Russian-Austrian artist Egor Kraft will be presenting new works at alexander levy. As a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kraft is unable to complete the work he had originally planned. Nonetheless, he believes that it is absolutely necessary to react to the current acts of war. Kraft will show a series that was already part of his ongoing research. It explores the technological potential for combating the spread of misinformation and propaganda that is at the heart of the continuing warfare in Ukraine. Independent and serverless technologies make it possible to verify the authenticity of still and moving images. With this in mind, he has developed a series of prototypes that provide journalists—including war correspondents—with a blockchain-based toolset to record the extended metadata of their footage. This allows it to be registered and stored in a forgery-proof format as soon as the images are captured. Thus introducing a decentralised public evidence archive and a next generation tool for effective fact-proofing.