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Ralf Baecker (*1977 Düsseldorf, Germany) 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. His objects perform physical realizations of thought experiments that act as subjective epistemological objects to pose fundamental questions about the digital, technology and complex systems and their entanglements with the socio-political sphere. His projects seek to provoke new imaginaries of the machinic, the artificial and the real. A radical form of engineering that bridges traditionally discreet machine thinking with alternative technological perspectives and a new material understanding that makes use of self-organizing principles.

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, 2014 and 2023, the second prize at the VIDA 14.0 Art & Artificial Life Award in Madrid, a working grant of the Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn, the Stiftung Niedersachsen work stipend for Media Art 2010 and the stipend of the Graduate School for the Arts from the University of the Arts in Berlin and the Einstein Foundation.

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, The International Digital Art Biennial Montreal, Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, MOCA Taipei, New Tretjakow Galerie Moscow, Laboral Centro de Arte in Gijón, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), NTT InterCommunication Center in Tokyo, Kasseler Kunstverein and Malmö Konsthall.

Since 2016 he has been teaching at the University of the Arts Bremen as Professor for Experimental Design of New Technologies in the Digital Media program.

TEACHING

  • since 2016  Professor for Experimental Design of New Technologies
    University of the Arts, Bremen DE
  • 2014 - 2015  Visiting Professor
    ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Arnhem NL
  • 2007 - 2008  Lecturer
    University of the Arts, Bremen DE
  • 2007 - 2008  Artistic Associate (Künsterlischer Mitarbeiter)
    Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar DE

    • AWARDS, GRANTS & COMMISSIONS

  • 2023  Honorary Mention – Prix Ars Electronica 2023 (Sound Art/Digital Music)
    Ars Electronica, Linz AT
  • 2022  Publication Funding, Berlin Senate
    Berlin Senate - Department of Culture, Berlin DE
  • 2019  NTAA 19 Award in collaboration with the STARTS-program of the European Commission
    New Technological Art Award / Foundation Liedts-Meesen, Ghent BE
  • 2017  Grand Prize Japan Media Arts Festival 2017
    Japan Media Arts Festival / Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan, Tokio JP
  • 2015  Honorary Mention – Prix Ars Electronica 2015 (Hybrid Art)
    Ars Electronica, Linz AT
  • 2014  Stipend of the Graduate School for the Arts
    University of the Arts + Einstein Foundaton, Berlin DE
  • 2014  Jury Selection "Japan Media Arts Festival 2014"
    Japan Media Arts Festival / Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan, Tokio JP
  • 2013  Second Prize "VIDA 14.0 Art & Artificial Life Award"
    Vida / Fundaction Telefonica, Madrid ES
  • 2012  Fellowship / Residency "art in progress"
    Hanse Wissenschafts Kolleg, Delmenhorst DE
  • 2012  Honorary Mention Prix Ars Electronica 2012 (Hybrid Art)
    Ars Electronica, Linz AT
  • 2011  Production Stipend Schering Stiftung/DOCK e.V.
    Schering Stiftung, Berlin DE
  • 2010  Stiftung Niedersachsen work stipend for Media Art 2010
    Edith-Russ-Site for Media Art, Oldenburg DE
  • 2009  Second Prize "Share Prize 2009"
    Share Festival, Turin IT
  • 2008  Honorary mention "CYNETart 2008"
    CYNETart, Dresden DE
  • 2008  Honorary mention "digital sparks award 08"
    digital sparks, Bonn DE
  • 2008  Work stipend
    Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn DE
  • 2007  Award for Media Art of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW)
    North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf DE

    • EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES

    2025

  • 13th Momentum Biennial. Between Worlds. Resonant Ecologies. | upcomming
    Galleri F 15, Moss false
  • NTAa '25 - New Technological Art awards | upcomming
    Zebrastraat, Ghent BE
  • SYMPTOMATICA | HORIZON | upcomming
    798 CUBE Art Center, Beijing CN

    • 2024

  • (Performance) Cellular Performance at WeSA Festival 2024
    Thila Ground, Seoul KR
  • Floating Codes | solo
    KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art praxis, Zagreb HR
  • Ξὑλͻgяάφ; The Post-Human Condition
    Galerie Sara lily Perez, Berlin DE
  • Future Tense: Art, Complexity, and Predictability
    Beall Center for Art + Technology, Irvine US
  • (Performance) A Natural History of Networks at Hidden Layers Conference
    Köln Internatinal School of Design, Cologne DE
  • (Performance) A Natural History of Networks @ Expanded Program
    Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Oberhausen DE

    • 2023

  • From the Past we Love, To the Future we Need - Festival X
    Alserkal Avenue, Dubai UE
  • (Performance) A Natural History of Networks/Softmachine | solo
    Meinblau Projektraum, Berlin DE
  • (Performance) Flatpack Festival
    Flatpack Festival, Birmingham UK
  • Fragments - FIBER Festival 2023
    Door Open Space, Amsterdam NL
  • Topologies of the Real: CAFAM Techne Triennial
    Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning, Shenzhen CN
  • Máquina Orgánica
    Teatros del Canal de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid ES
  • DIS/PLAY | solo
    Horst-Görtz-Institut Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum DE

    • 2022

  • (Performance) Maintenant Festival
    Les Champs Libres, Rennes FR
  • (Performance) Vector Hack Festival
    Vector Hack Festival, Zagreb HR
  • Beijing Art and Technology Biennale
    798 CUBE Art Center, Beijing CN
  • Ars Electronica - STUDIO(dys)TOPIA – At the Peak of Humankind
    Ars Electronica, Linz AT
  • Indivisible
    New Media Gallery, Vancouver CA
  • Near + Futures + Quasi + Worlds
    Palazzo Borsa, Sala Biagi, Bologna IT
  • (Performance) Anachronism
    Schwankhalle, Bremen DE
  • (Performance) Electrons Libres
    Stereolux, Nantes DE
  • Weltmaschine / World Machine - Art and Science - An artistic homage to Johannes Kepler
    OÖ Kulturquartier, Linz AT
  • (Performance) Symposium New Elements
    Laboratoria / New Tretjakow Galerie, Moscow RU
  • Gaia: Gene, algorithm, intelligent design, automata ＿A mirage self, The Other Realm
    MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art), Taipei TW

    • 2021

  • New Elements
    Laboratoria / New Tretjakow Galerie, Moscow RU
  • (Performance) Shiny Toys Festival
    Ringlokschuppen Ruhr, Mülheim an der Ruhr DE
  • Future Media Art Festival
    Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB), Taipei TW
  • May The Others Live in Me
    Laboratoria / New Tretjakow Galerie, Moscow RU
  • (Performance) A Natural History of Networks/Softmachine
    STATE Studio, Berlin DE

    • 2020

  • Near + Futures + Quasi + Worlds
    S+T+ARTS at STATE Studio, Berlin DE
  • Floating Codes | solo
    gnration, Braga PT
  • Trondheim international biennale for art and technology / Meta.Morf X – Digital Wild
    Trondheim Kunstmuseum Gråmølna, Trondheim NOR

    • 2019

  • International Art Exhibiton for New Technology
    Zebrastraat, Ghent BE
  • Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Computers So Uncanny, So Nonsensical?
    Chronus Art Center, Shanghai CN
  • Todays Art 2019
    TodaysArt, Den Hague NL
  • Ars Electronica 2019
    Ars Electronica, Linz AT
  • Experientia!
    Château de Lunéville, Luneville FR
  • Liquid Crystal World
    Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), Middlesbrough UK
  • Computing Spaces | solo [more]
    Stereolux, Nantes FR

    • 2018

  • Device_art 6.018: Machines Are Not Alone
    The Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb / KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art, Zagreb HR
  • A new State of the Living
    PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm RU
  • Thinking Machines. Ramon Llull and the ars combinatoria
    EPFL ArtLab, Lausanne CH
  • Putting the Pieces Back Together Again | solo
    Drehmoment / KulturRegion Stuttgart, Kircheim unter Teck / Stuttgart DE
  • Liquid Crystal World
    Site Gallery, Sheffield UK
  • The International Digital Art Biennial (BIAN/ELEKTRA)
    Arsenal Contemporary Art, Montreal CA
  • Singularity Now
    Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athen GR
  • DIA-LOGOS. Ramon Llull und die Kunst des Kombinierens
    Zentrum für Kunst und Medien (ZKM), Karlsruhe DE

    • 2017

  • unREAL. The Algorithmic Present
    Chronus Art Center, Shanghai CN
  • Japan Media Arts Festival 2017
    NTT Inter Communication Center [ICC], Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokio JP
  • Datumsoria. The Return of the Real
    Zentrum für Kunst und Medien (ZKM), Karlsruhe DE
  • Galerie Gerken at Ars Electronica Festival 2017
    Ars Electronica, Linz AT
  • kinetical patterns
    Galerie Gerken, Berlin DE
  • unREAL. The Algorithmic Present
    Haus der elektronischen Künste (HeK), Basel CHE
  • Prima Materia
    Fiber Festival 2017, Amsterdam NL
  • Interface I - Ljubljana | solo [more]
    Kresija Gallery, Ljubljana SLO

    • 2016

  • Interferences
    KIKK Festival 2016, Namur BE
  • No New Kind of Duck - Graduale 16
    Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin DE
  • Alchemists of our Time
    Ars Electronica 2016, Linz AT
  • The Thinking Machine - Ramon Llull and the Ars combinatoria
    Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona ES
  • The Paradox of Knowing Universals | solo
    Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel DE
  • Order + Noise. Interface I | solo
    NOME Gallery, Berlin DE

    • 2015

  • Tektonics / ACT Festival
    ACT Center, Asia Culture Center (ACC), Gwangju KR
  • Artistic needs & Institutional desires
    Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin DE
  • Superconduction. Challenge of art & technology
    Pop-up exhibition by Laboratoria Moscow, Riga LV
  • CyberArts 2015, Prix Ars Electronica Exhibition
    OK Center, Linz AT
  • The Secret of the Machines | solo
    Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana SLO

    • 2014

  • International Triennial of New Media Art 2014 / thingWorld
    National Art Musuem of China, Beijing CN
  • Obsessive Sensing
    LEAP, Berlin DE
  • Dernières Nouvelles de L’Éther
    La Panacée, Montpellier FR
  • ArtHackDay - Going Dark
    LEAP, Berlin DE

    • 2013

  • In Search for Precise Pleasures | solo
    LEAP, Berlin DE
  • Conversations Électriques
    La Panacée, Montpellier FR
  • Rauchwolken und Luftschlösser
    Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst, Bremen DE

    • 2012

  • A Matter of Feeling - META.MORF 2012
    Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim NOR
  • synergy - Lexus Hybrid Art
    ARTPLAY, Moscow RU
  • The Power of Things
    Dutch Electronic Art Festival, Rotterdam NL
  • The Crystal World / CTM 12
    Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin DE

    • 2011

  • Irrational Computing | solo
    Schering Stiftung, Berlin DE
  • re-active platform
    MOCA Studio, Taipei TW
  • Produced @ 10 Jahre Stipendium für Medienkunst
    Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Oldenburg DE
  • Kunstfrühling 2011
    Gleishalle am Güterbahnhof, Bremen DE
  • Life - Science version
    Center for Contemporary Art WINZAVOD, Moscow RU

    • 2010

  • NODE10 - Forum for digital arts
    Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main DE
  • New.Brave.World! - META.MORF 2010
    Trøndelag Centre for Contemporary Art, Trondheim NOR
  • WeltWissen. 300 Jahre Wissenschaften in Berlin
    Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin DE
  • Space Inventions. Der künstliche Raum
    Künstlerhaus, Wien AT
  • When Process becomes Paradigm
    LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijon ES
  • The Poetics of Space - Sonic Acts XIII
    Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam NL
  • re-active platform
    glasmoog, Cologne DE

    • 2009

  • Share Festival - Experiences in digital art & culture
    Share Festival, Turin IT
  • genau. mathematische Strategien und künstlerische Prozesse
    Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund DE
  • Rechnender Raum | solo
    Kunstverein Bochum, Bochum DE
  • 32. Bremer Förderpreis für Bildende Kunst 2008
    Städtische Galerie im Buntentor, Bremen DE

    • 2008

  • Electrohype 2008 – the fifth biennial for computer based and technological art
    Konsthall, Malmö SE
  • CYNETart 2008
    Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden DE
  • Artbots 2008
    Science Gallery, Dublin IE
  • Zur Zeit - Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
    Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz AT

    • 2007

  • LAB 30
    Abraxas, Augsburg DE
  • Wolfgang von Kempelen. Mensch-[in der]-Maschine
    ZKM Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe DE
  • Rechnender Raum | solo
    Moltkerei Werkstatt, Cologne DE
  • From Reality and Back
    Mejan Labs / Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm SE
  • Nowhere Nr. 4 | solo
    Melkweg Media Space, Amsterdam NL
  • Zähler
    Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf DE

    • 2006

  • autopsía - Sonderausstellung der KHM
    Art Cologne 2006, Cologne DE
  • Altitude 06
    Academy of Media Arts, Cologne DE
  • Intermezzo
    Academy of Media Arts, Cologne DE

    • 2005

  • Expanded Arts No. 2
    Kunstverein Gütersloh, Gütersloh DE
  • (Performance) Audiovisual Performance
    Cymatics Festival 2005, Brussels BE
  • (Performance) Audiovisual Performance
    22. Dokfest Kassel, Kassel DE
  • (Performance) Audiovisual Performance
    Lab.30 Festival, Augsburg DE
  • (Performance) Frischzelle 2005
    Stadtgarten, Köln DE
  • (Performance) Audiovisual Performance (KHM in Concert)
    Museum für Angewandte Kunst - Alte Cinemathek, Cologne DE
  • European Media Art Festival - Helden der Künste
    EMAF, Osnabrück DE
  • (Performance) mit Sebastian Weber und Michael Thies at Frischzelle 2004
    Stadtgarten, Cologne DE

    • 2004

  • Expanded Arts (curated by VALIE EXPORT)
    Art Cologne 2004, Cologne DE
  • Altitude 2004
    Academy of Media Arts, Cologne DE
  • Transcodex
    on CyberArts Festival, Boston US

    • 2005

  • Expanded Arts No. 2
    Kunstverein Gütersloh, Gütersloh DE
  • (Performance) Audiovisual Performance
    Cymatics Festival 2005, Brussels BE
  • (Performance) Audiovisual Performance
    22. Dokfest Kassel, Kassel DE
  • (Performance) Audiovisual Performance
    Lab.30 Festival, Augsburg DE
  • (Performance) Frischzelle 2005
    Stadtgarten, Köln DE
  • (Performance) Audiovisual Performance (KHM in Concert)
    Museum für Angewandte Kunst - Alte Cinemathek, Cologne DE
  • European Media Art Festival - Helden der Künste
    EMAF, Osnabrück DE
  • (Performance) mit Sebastian Weber und Michael Thies at Frischzelle 2004
    Stadtgarten, Cologne DE

    • 2004

  • Expanded Arts (curated by VALIE EXPORT)
    Art Cologne 2004, Cologne DE
  • Altitude 2004
    Academy of Media Arts, Cologne DE
  • Transcodex
    on CyberArts Festival, Boston US

    • TALKS/LECTURES

    2024

  • Lecture "Performing Complexity"
    Claire Trevor School of the Art’s – University of California, Irvine US
  • Lecture at Hidden Layers Conference
    Köln International School of Design, Cologne DE

    • 2023

  • Artist Talk "Cybernetic Imaginaries"
    MAT Series, Media Arts and Technology – University of California, Santa Barbara US
  • Artist Talk with Siegfried Zielinski
    Meinblau Projetspace, Berlin DE

    • 2022

  • Lecture at Digital Matters Symposium
    Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (GTA) and The Institute of Technology in Architecture (ITA) at ETH, Zürich CH
  • Lecture / Panel
    MoCA Taipei, Taipei TW
  • Artist Talk
    Laboratoria Art&Science Foundation – State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow RU

    • 2021

  • Artist Talk (remote)
    MAT Series, Media Arts and Technology – University of California, Santa Barbara US

    • 2020

  • Machine Archaeology (Online Discussion with Theo Jansen, Richard Guzmán, Emma Záhradníková & Tomáš Danielis)
    Sensorium Festival + Goethe Institute Bratislava + Slovak Design Centre, Bratislava SK
  • Artist Talk (remote)
    Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Porto / Braga PT
  • Panel discussion Art beyond Digital /Empathic AI – Art shapes Industry (Symposium)
    STATES Studio / S+T+ARS, Berlin DE

    • 2019

  • Jourfixe / Artist Talk
    Akademie der Bildenen Künste München, Munich DE
  • Time of Non-Reality (Artist Talk)
    Chronus Art Center (in cooperation with Tongji University), Shanghai CN
  • Time of Non-Reality (Artist Talk)
    Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing CN

    • 2018

  • Panel / Autonomous relations: actions, reactions and tangled sovereign systems
    Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Zagreb HR
  • Artist Talk
    PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm RU
  • Artist Talk
    ArtTech Forum 2018, Geneva CH
  • Artist Talk / Matter Matters
    Retune Festival, Berlin DE

    • 2017

  • KISDtalk / Matter Matters
    Köln International School of Design, Köln DE
  • Artist Talk at Goethe Institute Shanghai
    Goethe Institute Shanghai, Shanghai CN
  • Artist Talk at Japan Media Art Festival
    NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], Tokyo DE
  • Artist Talk / Datumsoria. The Return of the Real
    ZKM, Karsruhe DE
  • Seperation - Purification - Combination
    Fiber Festival 2017, Amsterdam NL
  • Noise - Space - Matter
    IMD _Institute of Media and Design, TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig DE
  • Noise - Space - Matter
    Resonate, Belgrade SRB

    • 2016

  • How I Stopped Worring and Started to Love the Turing Machine
    Performing Encounters @ Haus am Luetzowplatz, Berlin DE

    • 2015

  • From Transparency to Obscurity
    ACT Center 2016, Gwuangju KR
  • Datum I: Über die Autonomie der Technosphäre | Peter K. Haff, Jennifer Gabrys, Mark B. N. Hansen
    (Projection of Mirage used in Mark Hansens Lecture)
    Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin DE
  • Zeichen - Körper - Instrument / Über das Entstehen technologischer Artefakte /mit Julian Stubbe
    Salon für Ästhetische Experimente / Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin DE
  • Lines, Robes and Computational Spaces
    Fiber Festival 2015, Amsterdam NL
  • Lines, Robes and Computational Spaces @ Variable World - A Symposium on Simulation
    AVANT/LEAP Berlin DE, Berlin DE
  • Presentation and Lectue, Media Archeology as Artistic Practice
    CTM/Transmediale @ Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin DE

    • 2013

  • Cybernetic Bubblegum (Lecture + Workshop)
    Kunsthochschule Kassel, Kassel DE

    • 2012

  • Rauchwolken und Luftschlösser - Temporäre Räume
    Hochschule für Künste Bremen, Bremen DE
  • Machine Poetics (Lecture)
    Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst DE
  • Lecture
    Center for Contemporary Art WINZAVOD, Moscow RU
  • Lecture
    Share Festival, Turin IT

    • 2008

  • Artist Talk
    Kunstverein Bochum, Bochu DE

    • 2006

  • Artist Talk
    3. SuMa-eV Forum, Berlin DE
  • Artist Talk @ Upgrade! Amsterdam 2.0: [The Graduates]
    Merlkweg, Amsterdam NL

    • BIBLIOGRAPHY

    2023

  • Ralf Baecker - Cybernetic Imaginaries (Monogrpaphy)
    DISTANZ Verlag, Ed. by Carsten Seiffarth, 2023
  • Prix Ars Electronica 2023 (Catalog)
    Hatje Cantz, Ed. by Markus Jandl, Gerfried Stocker, 2023

    • 2022

  • Ars Electronica 2022 - Welcome to Planet B. A Different Life is Possible! But How? (Catalog)
    Hatje Cantz, Ed. by Gerfried Stocker / Christine Schöpf / Hannes Leopoldseder, 2022
  • Unconventional Computing, Arts, Philosophy (Text Contribution)
    World Scientific, Ed. by Andrew Adamatzky, 2022

    • 2021

  • The Dynamic Archive 03 - Issue 1 (Text Contribution)
    Ed. by Andrea Sick and Irena Kukric, 2021
  • The Age of Data: Embracing Algorithms in Art & Design (Catalog)
    Niggli Verlag (Ed. by Christoph Grünberger), 2021

    • 2020

  • Reenactments in Art, Design, Science and Technology - Salon Digital Band / Vol. 1 (Publication)
    Textem Verlag, Ed. by Ralf Baecker, Dennis Paul, Andrea Sick (Hochschule für Künste Bremen), 2020
  • META.MORF X - DIGITAL WILD (Catalog)
    TEKS.press, Espen Gangvik, Zane Cerpina (Eds.), 2020

    • 2019

  • DIA–LOGOS Ramon Llull’s Method of Thought and Artistic Practice (Catalog)
    The University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis / Amador Vega, Peter Weibel, Siegfried Zielinski (eds.), 2019
  • The New Technological Art Award 2019 (Catalog)
    Liedts-Meesen Foundation, Zebrastraat Ghent, 2019
  • Ars Electronica 2019 - Out of the Box (Catalog)
    Hatje Cantz, Edited by Gerfried Stocker / Christine Schöpf / Hannes Leopoldseder, 2019

    • 2017

  • Machine Art in the Twentieth Century (Image / reference)
    MIT Press, by Andreas Broeckmann, 2017

    • 2016

  • No New Kind of Duck - Would I know how to say what I do? (Publication)
    Diaphanes, ed. Jan Verwoert, 2016
  • The Thinking Machine. Ramon LLull ant the Ars Combinatoria (Catalog)
    CCCB and Direcció de Comunicació de la Diputació de Barcelona, 2016
  • Ars Electronica 2016 - Radical Atoms and the alchiminsts of our time (Catalog)
    Hatje Cantz, Herausgegeben von Hannes Leopoldseder, Gerfried Stocker, 2016
  • Ralf Baecker. Order + Noise (Catalog)
    NOME Projects, 2016

    • 2015

  • Mathematics and Art. A Cultureal History (Image / reference)
    Princton University Press, by Lynn Gamwell, 2015
  • CyberArts 2015 - International Compendum Prix Ars Electronica (Catalog)
    Hatje Cantz, Herausgegeben von Hannes Leopoldseder, Gerfried Stocker, 2015
  • Experiencing the Unconventional (with Mitchell Whitelaw)
    World Scientific, ed. Theresa Schubert and Andrew Adamatzky, 2015

    • 2014

  • Rauchwolken und Luftschlösser. Temporäre Räume (Contribution)
    Textem Verlag, Herausgegeben von Dennis Paul / Andrea Sick, 2014

    • 2012

  • CyberArts 2012 - International Compendum Prix Ars Electronica (Catalog)
    Hatje Cantz, Herausgegeben von Hannes Leopoldseder, Christine Schöpf, Gerfried Stocker, 2012

    • 2011

  • A Touch of Code (Contribution)
    Gestalten Verlag, 2011
  • produced@ (Catalog) (Exhibition catalog)
    Revolver Berlin, 2011

    • 2010

  • Weltwissen. 300 Jahre Wissenschaften in Berlin (exhibition catalog)
    Hirmer Berlin, 2010
  • Code und Material Exkursionen ins Undingliche (contribution)
    Springer Vienna, Georg Trogemann, 2010
  • Space Inventions. Der künstliche Raum (Catalog) (exhibition catalog)
    Schlebruegge, P. Bogner/G. Hattinger, 2010

    • 2009

  • Process as Paradigm (Catalog) (exhibition catalog)
    LABoral Gijon, 2009

    • ARTICLES/PRESS

    2023

  • Wild Alchemy Journal - Aether Edition
    Wild Alchemy Lab, 2023

    • 2022

  • Floating Codes – The (spatial) topology of an artificial neural network
    Creative Applications, 2022

    • 2021

  • Natural History of Networks / SoftMachine, electrochemical performance
    Neural Magazine, 2021
  • A Natural History of Networks / SoftMachine – A speculation about a heterogeneous technological culture
    Creative Applications, 2021

    • 2020

  • Revealing the mechanisms of computation
    Interview with Clot Magazine, 2020

    • 2018

  • Putting the Pieces Back Together Again, sorting out complexity
    Neural Magazine, 2018
  • Wie ein Ameisenhaufen oder Schwarm
    Stuttgarter Zeitung, 2018

    • 2016

  • Prof. Georg Trogemann: Von poietischen Prozessen und poetischen Maschinen
    Kasseler Kunstverein, 2016
  • Régine Debatty: Order+Noise, a tug of war for motors, strings and rubber bands
    Interview, We Make Money Not Arte, 2016

    • 2015

  • Alessandro Ludovico: Interview on Complexity
    Neural Issue 52, COMPLEXITY ISSUE(S), Autum 2015, Milan IT, 2015
  • Karin Nord: Poetische Maschinen
    Mundus Kunstmagazin, Ausgabe, 2015
  • Aurelio Cianciotta: Mirage – intelligent projection apparatus
    Neural Issue 50, Winter 2015, Milan IT, 2015
  • Ryan Jordan: DIY Electronics. Revealing the Material Systems of Computation
    LMJ 25, MIT Press, Boston US, 2015

    • 2014

  • Mitchell Whitelaw: Digital Mirage
    POSTmatter, London UK, 2014
  • Nadja Sayej: An Artist Has Made A Primitive Computer Out Of Earth Crystals
    The Creators Project, London UK, 2014
  • Olivia Solon: Computer ‘dreams’ projected with lasers
    Wired UK, London UK, 2014
  • Filip Visnjic: Mirage – An optical projection apparatus by Ralf Baecker
    Creative Applications, London UK, 2014
  • Ralf Baecker: Mirage
    Amusement, London UK, 2014
  • Siofra McSherry: Obsessive Sensing
    This is Tomorrow, London UK, 2014

    • 2013

  • Martin Dunkelmann: Die Ästhetik des Digitalen
    Videoportrait von Arte Creative, Berlin DE, 2013
  • Mitchell Whitelaw: Sheer Hardware
    Scan | Journal of Media Arts Culture Volume 10 Number 2, Sydney AU, 2013
  • Pau Waelder: Interview with Ralf Baecker
    VIDA Telefonica, Madrid ES, 2013

    • 2012

  • Mitchell Whitelaw: Proto-Computing
    the teeming void, Canberra AU, 2012
  • Christiane Meixner: Der Maschinist
    Tagesspiegel, Berlin DE, 2012

    • 2011

  • Dr. Andreas Broeckmann: Einführung in die Ausstellung Irrational Computing
    Schering Stiftung, 2011
  • Dan Smith: Sculpture uses magnetism to redesign itself continuously
    Wired UK, London UK, 2011

    • 2010

  • Prof. Anthony Moore: History-producing Machines
    published in Space Inventions Exhibition Catalog Künstlerhaus Wien, 2010
  • Régine Debatty: El proceso como paradigma. The Autonomous Automat
    we make money not art, London UK, 2010

    • 2009

  • Alessandro Ludovico: Rechnender Raum
    Centerfold in Neural Magazin – Machine Affection, Print Issue 32, 2009

    • 2006

  • Alessandro Ludovico: Nowhere, rhizomatic sculpture
    Neural, Milan IT, 2006
    • © Ralf Baecker 2004 – ∞