Welcome to the website of artist, multi-disciplinary technologist, director, hacker, and composer Martin Backes

WELCOME TO PARADISE Exhibition

My Augmented Reality / Mixed Reality (AR) work called ‘What do I know? I am just a machine?!’ will be shown at NRW-Forum Düsseldorf as part of the group exhibition ‘Welcome to Paradise’ starting from August 26.

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New Artwork: Kinetic Walkers

‘Kinetic Walkers’ emerged from the project NOOSTOPIA I created together with Moritz Ostruschnjak for Theater Bielefeld. The work is a interactive robotic installation that consists of several robots. The robots could be controlled in various ways, which includes using real-time live control and pre-programmed control including a movement […]

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New Artwork: Music Automats

‘Music Automats’ grew out of the project NOOSTOPIA, a dance and theatre piece, I created together with the choreographer Moritz Ostruschnjak for Theater Bielefeld. The work is a interactive robotic sound installation that consists of several robotic instruments. The robots could be controlled in various ways, which includes […]

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THE WRONG TV Online Exhibition

The latest project to come out of The Wrong (which runs The Wrong Digital Art Biennale) is The Wrong TV, a new online tv platform for digital art, music & culture, with 24/7 free live streaming. David Quiles Guilló reached out to Ben Grosser to curate a program […]

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New Artwork: Noostopia

After months of hard work, I am happy to share some exciting news. Together with Choreographer Moritz Ostruschnjak, I created a dance and theatre piece for Theater Bielefeld called NOOSTOPIA. Expect lots of robots, a crazy stage & lightning design coming straight out of a virtual world, great […]

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