Konrad Becker (artist)
Konrad Becker (born January 9, 1959 in Vienna ) is an Austrian media researcher, activist, author, actor, composer and producer in the field of art and electronic media. He lives in Vienna and is co-founder of the Institute for New Cultural Technologies / t0 , which he also heads, as well as initiator of Public Netbase and World-Information.Org .
Life
Konrad Becker has been working as an artist since the late 1970s. His work has been featured in numerous publications, including many international newspapers and magazines with more than 3,500 articles, reports and interviews. His work as an artist in the field of electronic media and digital networks has received several awards ( Prix Ars Electronica , Prize of the City of Vienna, etc.) and is characterized by numerous collaborations with well-known representatives of a new artistic practice. He worked in various areas of electronic art and culture: from audio and video, radio and television, multimedia productions and installations, from software and virtual reality to social sculpture. Becker has numerous publications, participations in international exhibitions and events on the subject of media culture, as well as membership in international specialist committees and working groups on information and communication technology. As a book author and writer of texts on the politics of the infosphere, some of which are available in several translations, he deals with the cultural and psychosocial implications of an information society determined by technology. Konrad Becker is the initiator and co-organizer of a large number of interventions in public space and the organizer of numerous international festivals and conferences. As a founding member of the European Cultural Backbone (ECB) and participant in various cultural networks, he made a contribution to the supra-regional cooperation of cultural workers in the field of new information and communication technologies.
As a composer and performer , Konrad Becker founded Monoton , a project from the early days of electronic music . Monotonprodukt 07 was included in The Wire's "100 Records That Set The World On Fire (While No One Was Listening)" . At the intersection of audio art, microcomputer psycho-acoustics and electronic dance culture, genre boundaries have been crossed several times over the years and countless transformations and side projects have gone through. This ranges from meta-mathematical and performative multimedia installations, from industrial noise to audio software, from contributions to the early rave scene to music theater and stage productions.
Trivia
Konrad Becker plays in different episodes of the television series Kottan, once the corpse (episode "Night Gas Station"), and once the murderer (episode "House Visits").
Books by Konrad Becker
- Psychonautic, MonotonProdukt, Vienna, 1986.
- The politics of the infosphere , World-Information.Org, VS-Verlag für Sozialwissenschaft, Berlin (bpb), 2002, ISBN 3893314644 .
- Tactical Reality Dictionary, Cultural Intelligence and Social Control, New York (Autonomedia), 2002, ISBN 3852661943 .
- Tactical Reality Dictionary, Russian translation and Foreword by Oleg Kireev, Moscow (Ultraculture Publishing), 2004.
- Becker, Konrad / Wassermair, Martin (ed.): Combat zones in art and media. Texts on the future of cultural policy, Vienna (Löcker), 2008, ISBN 3854094833 .
- Becker, Konrad / Wassermair, Martin (eds.): Phantom Kulturstadt. Texts on the future of cultural policy 2, Vienna (Löcker), 2009, ISBN 3854095066 .
- Becker, Konrad / Stalder, Felix (eds.): Deep Search. Politics of Searching Beyond Google, Innsbruck (Studienverlag), 2009, ISBN 9783706547949 .
- Becker, Konrad / Stalder, Felix (eds.): Deep Search. The Politics of Search beyond Google, Innsbruck (Studienverlag), 2009, ISBN 9783706547956 .
- Strategic Reality Dictionary. Deep Infopolitics and Cultural Intelligence, New York (Autonomedia), 2009, ISBN 9781570272028 .
- Becker, Konrad / Fleming, Jim (eds.): Critical Strategies in Art and Media. Perspectives on New Cultural Practices, New York (Autonomedia), 2010, ISBN 9781570272141 .
- Becker, Konrad / Wassermair, Martin (ed.): After the end of politics. Texts on the future of cultural policy 3, Vienna (Löcker), 2011, ISBN 978-3-85409-552-1 .
- Dictionary of Operations - Deep Politics and Cultural Intelligence, with an introduction by Hakim Bey and an afterword by Franco Berardi Bifo, NY: Autonomedia 2012, ISBN 9781570272615 .
- Konrad Becker, Felix Stalder (eds.), Fiction and Power of Effect. A publication by the World-Information Institute, Vienna: Löcker 2016, ISBN 978-3-85409-663-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Konrad Becker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Interview with Konrad Becker
- Short bio (English). Archived from the original on July 14, 2009 ; accessed on October 30, 2018 .
- Konrad Becker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.discogs.com/artist/Konrad+Becker
- ↑ http://www.discogs.com/artist/Monoton
- ↑ Konrad Becker aka Monoton ( Memento from April 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/175/
- ↑ http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=8957
- ↑ http://brotpaket.blogspot.com/2008/12/monoton.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Becker, Konrad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian media researcher, musician and publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |