Konrad Becker

Konrad Becker (born 9 January 1959 in Vienna) is an Austrian media researcher, activist, author, composer and producer in the field of art and electronic media. He lives in Vienna and is co-founder of the Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0, which he also directs, and initiator of Public Netbase and World Information.Org.

Konrad Becker has been an artist since the late 70s. 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 Award of the City of Vienna and others) and is characterized by numerous collaborations with well-known representatives of a new artistic practice. He was active in various fields of electronic arts and culture: audio and video, radio and television, multimedia productions and installations of software and virtual reality through a social sculpture. Becker can boast numerous publications, participations in international exhibitions and events about media culture as well as memberships in international committees and working groups on information and communication technology. As a book author and writer of texts to the policy of infosphere, which partly exist in multiple translations, he deals with the cultural and psychosocial implications of a particular technology information society. Konrad Becker is the initiator and co-organizer of a variety of interventions in public space, and organizer of numerous international festivals and conferences. As a founding member of the European Cultural Backbone (ECB ) and participants in various cultural networks, he contributed to the inter-regional cooperation of cultural workers in the field of new information and communication technologies.

Books by Konrad Becker

  • Psychonautic, Monotone product, Vienna, 1986
  • The policy of the infosphere, World-Information.Org, VS -Verlag of Social Science, 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 (Ultra Culture Publishing ), 2004
  • Becker, Konrad / Wassermair, Martin ( ed.): combat zones in art and media. Texts about Future Cultural Politics, Vienna ( Löcker ), 2008, ISBN 3854094833
  • Becker, Konrad / Wassermair, Martin ( ed.): Phantom cultural city. Texts about Future Cultural Politics 2, Vienna ( Löcker ), 2009, ISBN 3854095066
  • Becker, Konrad / Stalder, Felix (ed.): Deep Search. Politics of Search beyond Google, Innsbruck (Study Verlag ), 2009, ISBN 9783706547949
  • Becker, Konrad / Stalder, Felix (ed.): Deep Search. The Politics of Search beyond Google, Innsbruck (Study Verlag ), 2009, ISBN 9783706547956
  • Strategic Reality Dictionary. Deep Politics and Cultural Intelligence info, New York ( Autonomedia ), 2009, ISBN 9781570272028
  • Becker, Konrad / Fleming, Jim (ed.): 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 about Future Cultural Politics 3, Vienna ( Löcker ), 2011, ISBN 978-3-85409-552-1
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