Book Presentation, Artist Talk and Performance
Ralf Baecker

Saturday September 30th 2023, 7 p.m

Program
Book Presentation: Cybernetic Imaginaries (edited by Carsten Seiffarth)
19:00 Artist Talk with Siegfried Zielinski (moderation Daria Parkhomenko)
20:00 Performance: A Natural History of Networks/Softmachine
Cybernetic Imaginaries (Distanz Verlag)
Cybernetic Imaginaries (edited by Carsten Seiffarth) is the first monographic catalog of the artist Ralf Baecker. The catalog is a comprehensive documentation of his experimental poetic machines, installations and performances. 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.
 
A Natural History of Networks/Softmachine
A Natural History of Networks/Softmachine is an audiovisual performance. A custom-built electrochemical experimental apparatus (SoftMachine) creates a dynamic fluidic self-organizing microcosm that performs a continuous becoming of form, structure and material narrations.
(free entry)