Installation by Ralf Baecker (DE)
// Project Space of
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
// 28.01.–19.02. › daily 12–19:00
As part of
The Crystal World Open Laboratory project, Ralf Baecker shows his installation "Irrational Computing", an artistic examination of the materials, aesthetics, and potential of digital processes, which are usually conceived logically and rationally. In exploring the deepest physical levels of digital systems – semiconductor crystals, the raw materials of information technology – the installation renders the underlying unpredictable processes of quantum mechanics visible, and thus forms a digital signal processing engine that operates on the dividing line between order and chaos. "Irrational Computing" reinforces the mystique of these materials, which are at the core of the technology all around us.
Ralf Baecker’s installation is a production of
dock-berlin in collaboration with the
Ernst Schering Foundation.
Ralf Baecker studied computer science, attended the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, graduating in 2007, and taught at the Bauhaus University in Weimar and at the Bremen University of the Arts. Baecker builds installations and sculptures that deconstruct the fundamental elements of symbolic and technological processes.
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