Text-Installation, 2010

The installation by Konrad Becker displays, carved in stone, what is probably the most deceitful medium of human expression, namely, text. Like codes of law he presents theses which speak of deception, insecurity and distrust, pointing us to the simultaneity and ambivalence of truth and delusion.

About the artist

Konrad Becker is active in electronic media as an artist, author, composer as well as curator, producer and organiser. Director of the Institute for New Culture Technologies/ t0, and World-Information Institute, a cultural intelligence provider, co-founder of the seminal Public Netbase (1994 - 2006) he also created Monoton, a pioneering electronic music act, and the Global Security Alliance for cultural risk management.

Becker's field of work and artistic production includes all areas of electronic art and culture, from audio to video, TV and radio, multimedia productions and installations, software, VR and digital networks to performance and activism. He has realised numerous electronic productions, exhibitions, conference series and event designs for international festivals and cultural institutions as well as a range of controversial interventions in public space. Media works and installations, electronic audiovisuals, and many video productions from experimental works to documentaries have been presented in galleries, museums, festivals as well as broadcast. His audio releases were singled out by The Wire magazine as among the 100 most important records of the twentieth century. His work has been characterised by extensive cooperation with influential collectives and protagonists of new artistic practices worldwide. Member of various boards for information technologies and a founding member of European cultural networks, he has contributed to policy recommendations towards a digital ecology of information landscapes.

Publications include theoretical texts and books on the politics of the infosphere. As an interdisciplinary communication researcher Becker investigates the cultural and social implications of technology in information societies. A particular emphasis is placed on the interrelations of the symbolic and the real, immaterial information regimes and tangible reality. His latest books include Strategic Reality Dictionary, Deep Infopolitics and Cultural Intelligence, (Autonomedia NY, 2009) Critical Strategies in Art and Media Konrad Becker, Jim Fleming (eds.), (Autonomedia NY, 2010) Deep Search - The Politics of Search beyond Google Konrad Becker, Felix Stalder (Eds.), (transaction, 2009), Phantom Kulturstadt Konrad Becker, Martin Wassermair (Eds.) (Löcker, 2009).

TRUST
30 July–5 September 2010

Dortmunder U – Centre for Art and Creativity
Floor U3
Leonie-Reygers-Terrasse
44137 Dortmund

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