Cybernetic Imaginaries is the first monographic catalog of the artist Ralf Baecker (born 1977 in Düsseldorf, lives and works in Berlin and Bremen). The catalog is a comprehensive documentation of his experimental poetic machines, installations and performances. Baecker’s works explore fundamental mechanisms of the digital, cybernetics, artificial neural networks and artificial life. His complex and poetic objects oscillate between the algorithmic/artificial and the organic/nature-like. As translations and spatializations of digital processes, they offer an alternative sight behind the surfaces of contemporary technology and its power structures. His work has been presented at international festivals and exhibitions, including Ars Electronica (@arselectronica), the International Triennial of New Media Art in Beijing, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, ZKM in Karlsruhe , Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, New Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, LABoral Centro de Arte in Gijón, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, InterCommunication Center in Tokyo, Kasseler Kunstverein and Malmö Konsthall. In addition to photographs, sketches, technical drawings, and detailed descriptions of Baecker’s central works, media-theoretical and art-historical essays by Siegfried Zielinski, Andreas Broeckmann, and an interview with the curator Daria Parkhomenko contextualize the artistic work of Ralf Baecker.