Ralf Baecker is an artist working at the interface of art, science, and technology. Through installations, autonomous machines, and performances, he explores the underlying mechanisms of new media and technology. https://rlfbckr.io
The Collapse of a Microcosm – Sensory ecology that remembers
The Collapse of a Microcosm is a site-specific sound and light installation that engages in a continuous dialogue with its environment—a living archive of the present as it fades into the past.
Cybernetic Imagineries – Ralf Baecker
Located at the intersections of art, science, and technology, the artistic practice of Ralf Baecker (born 1977 in Düsseldorf, lives and works in Berlin and Bremen) explores fundamental mechanisms of the digital, cybernetics, artificial neural netw...
Floating Codes – The (spatial) topology of an artificial neural network
'Floating Codes' is a site-specific light and sound installation that explores the inner workings and hidden aesthetics of artificial neural networks – the fundamental building blocks of machine learning systems or artificial intelligence. The exh...
A Natural History of Networks / SoftMachine – A speculation about a heterogeneous technological culture
'A Natural History of Networks / SoftMachine' is an electrochemical algorithmic performance that probes an alternative computational and technological material regime.
Putting The Pieces Back Together Again – The order of chaos
Created by Ralf Baecker, Putting The Pieces Back Together Again is an artistic investigation and meditation about complex systems and scientific methodology. Consisting of 1250 stepper motors arranged in a two dimensional grid, each motor in the i...
Random Access Memory – Materialising mathematical process (algorithm)
Created by Berlin based Ralf Baecker, Random Access Memory is a fully functional digital memory. Instead of operating on semi-conducting components to represent either the binary states of 0 (zero) or 1 (one), the memory uses grains of sand as sto...
Order+Noise (Interface I) – Negotiating the boundary of randomness
Created by Ralf Baecker and opening this week at the NOME gallery in Berlin, Order+Noise (Interface I) investigates the boundary and space created by two interacting systems that are set in motion by the random signals of Geiger-Müller tubes.
Mirage – An optical projection apparatus by Ralf Baecker / LEAP
Created by Ralf Baecker and produced by the LEAP gallery in Berlin, Mirage is an installation that uses muscle wires to move a mirror that reflects a laser beam into a shape of a landscape.
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