Ralf Baecker – Order+Noise (Interface I)
Opening: 22 April 2016, 6pm
23 April– 18 June 2016
Opening hours Gallery Weekend:
29 April, 6-9pm
30 April, 3-7pm
NOME
Dolziger Straße 31, 10247 Berlin
http://nomeproject.com <http://nomeproject.com/>
NOME is pleased to open "Order+Noise (Interface I)", Ralf Baecker's most recent
solo show, on 22 April.
"Order+Noise (Interface I)" negotiates the boundary between two interacting
systems. Motors, strings and elastic bands are set in motion by the random
signals of Geiger-Müller tubes which pick up the natural ambient radiation of
the earth. The installation explores the interface at which these elements
influence one another, to reproduce space and time in constantly shifting
configurations.
Baecker has often emphasized the material substrate of computing machines and
media technologies. Here, what underlines the aesthetic experience is the
materiality by which action produces knowledge, transforming data space into
real space. As observers take in the rules, operations and parameters of the
work, they gain insight into their perception. The installation's mechanical
workings and network of strings allow us to explore the poetic potential of
technology via its materiality, so that Interface I sits on the boundary
between an imaginary field and an epistemological condition.
Research and experiments essential to the realization of this exhibition were
carried out within the framework of Baecker’s research project "Time of
Non-Reality".
Ralf Baecker is an artist with a background in computer science. His focus is
on the fundamental structures and conditions of our digital world. In his works
he addresses the material scope of technology and its cultural construction.
His systems seek to expose the relation between thinking and the world, thus
turning his machines into epistemological objects rather than just tools.
Ralf Baecker’s work has received several awards including an honorary mention
at the Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, second prize at the VIDA 14.0 Art &
Artificial Life Award, Madrid, and a stipend from the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media
Art Oldenburg in 2012. His work has been exhibited at the International
Triennial of New Media Art in Beijing (China), Malmö Konsthall (Sweden),
Künstlerhaus Wien (Austria), Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin (Germany), Center for
Contemporary Art WINZAVOD Moscow (Russia), and Laboral Centro de Arte Gijon
(Spain). Ralf Baecker is currently a fellow at the Graduate School at the
University of the Arts Berlin.
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