2018 Leonardo Art, Science and Technology Lecture Series Time of Non-Reality
Date:
May 25, 2019 (Saturday)
Time:
3 – 5pm
Language:
English (with consecutive Chinese translation)
Venue:
Chronus Art Center (No.18, No.50 Mo Gan Shan Rd, Shanghai)
Co-organized by Chronus Art Center, CAFA Center for Art and Technology, CAFA Art Museum, Tongji University College of Art & Media
In collaboration with Leonardo / ISAST
The digital procedure, introduced in the 1940s, was intended to eliminate not only the noise in the channel and its surroundings but matter itself. The lecture “Time of Non-Reality” looks at the origin of the digital, its materiality, complex systems and proposes alternative modes of computing. Furthermore Baecker will show examples of his artistic practice that are embedded and intertwined with his research.
Ralf Baeker
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 technologies. In his representations and specializations of digital and technological processes he offers a poetic sight behind the surfaces of contemporary image making.
Since 2016 he teaches at the University of the Arts Bremen as Professor for Experimental Design of New Technologies. Baecker has been awarded multiple prizes and grants for his artistic work, including the grand prize of the Japan Media Art Festival in 2017, an honorary mention at the Prix Ars Electronica in 2012 and 2014. 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 in Karlsruhe, Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, WINZAVOD Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow, Laboral Centro de Arte in Gijon, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) and NTT InterCommunication Center in Tokyo.
