Ralf Baecker
Ralf Baecker
Ralf Baecker is an artist working at the interface of art, science, and technology. Through installations and machines, Baecker explores fundamental mechanisms of new media and technology. In his representations and spatializations of digital processes, he offers a poetic sight behind the surfaces of contemporary image-making. At the core of his objects lies the entanglement of the virtual with the real. With a media-archaeological perspective, Baecker digs within obsolete devices for traces of functions and (power) structures that are still detectable in today’s technologies. He understands technology not as a tool but rather as an epistemological instrument to pose fundamental questions about a world perceived through technological impressions.
Baecker has been awarded multiple prizes and grants for his artistic work. His work has been presented in international festivals and exhibitions, such as the International Triennial of New Media Art 2014 in Beijing, Künstlerhaus Wien, ZKM | Center for Art and New Media in Karlsruhe, Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, WINZAVOD Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow, Laboral Centro de Arte in Gijón, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), NTT InterCommunication Center in Tokyo, Kasseler Kunstverein and Malmö Konsthall.