LAB30 2021 Exhibition

Unfortunately, the lab30 media arts festival 2020 has been canceled due to Covid-19 and postponed to the end of March 2021! Let`s hope for the best and see you in March!?
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Welcome to the website of artist, multi-disciplinary technologist, director, hacker, and composer Martin Backes
Unfortunately, the lab30 media arts festival 2020 has been canceled due to Covid-19 and postponed to the end of March 2021! Let`s hope for the best and see you in March!?
Read MoreMy net art work „I am sitting in a machine;“ will be part of this year’s online edition of Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF) in Athens (Greece).
Read More‘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 […]
Read MoreThe 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 […]
Read MoreAfter 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 […]
Read MoreMy installation ‘What do machines sing of?’ will be shown next as part of the ‘BIENNIAL OF DIGITAL ARTS NÉMO’ at Le Centquatre-Paris. So if you happen to be around, see you there!
Read MoreMy installation ‘What do machines sing of?’ will be part of this years Nuit blanche in Paris (France). ‘Nuit Blanche – edition 18’ will take place at Le Centquatre-Paris on october 5th, 2019. It`s bascially a sort of pre-opening on October 5th, 2019 of the following ‘BIENNIAL OF […]
Read MoreAs part of the jury, I am very happy to announce the final VIA – VUT Indie Awards 2019 shortlist. 16 artists, labels and experiments are shortlisted for this year’s edition. VIA! is Germany’s most important award for the independent music industry. On September 19th, during the Reeperbahn […]
Read MoreMy installation ‘What do machines sing of?’ will be shown next as part of a group show called ‘Pandora’s Box Opened’ at whiteBOX in Munich. So if you happen to be around for the opening, see you there!
Read MoreI designed and built my very own noise synthesizer made out of simple electronics components (resistors, capacitors, transistors, LEDs, integrated circuit chips). By the use of such primitive analog computers in combination with feedback, sensors and other inputs, “Blue Noise Box” creates it`s very unique sound.
Read MoreI am presenting my latest work „I am sitting in a machine;“ at ‘It’s a book 2019‘ in Leipzig, Germany. It will be presented differently this time. You can experience the work in the form of an audio walk instead of a net art piece or a dubplate […]
Read MoreI am really happy to present my latest work „I am sitting in a machine;“ at KlangLand 17 in Kassel, Germany.
Read MoreI am really happy to present my new work “I am sitting in a machine;”. The work consists of two parts. One part is a web page application distributed via the Internet. The other part is a limited edition dubplate record consisting of 30 units.
Read MoreMy sound art piece Dron:ing will be part of SIGHT.SOUND [INTERACTION] 8 in Baltimore (USA).
Read MoreI cooperated with Georg Klein for the work ’toposonie : : spree’ – a participatory soundwalk along the river Spree in Berlin-Mitte.
Read MoreI will play live as part of the Laptop Ensemble Republic 111 at the University of Arts in Berlin.
Read MoreAs part of the Berlin Porn Film Festival closing night I will perform live at Berghain with Shu Lea Cheang and a bunch of other sound artists on Sunday, October 30, 2011. Join us on a LIVE CODE LIVE SPAM viral trip!
Read MoreI cooperated with australian artist Petrina Hicks to work on a new video installation called “Hippy and the Snake”. I did all the recording, processing and sound design for the two-channel video installation.
Read MoreOn October 30, 2010 I recorded the U-Bahn-Geräusche-Chor at 6 different subway locations in Berlin in order to produce a whole audio documentation.
Read MoreA reinterpretation of Alvin Luciers “Music On A Long Thin Wire” is permanently installed at University of Arts Berlin.
Read MoreI exhibited a new site specific sound installation for public space called “Irklang” at the Artsummer Schwaben 09, Kloster Irsee, Germany. Above are some photos about the work (setup, recording sessions and opening) and the place itself called Abbey Irsee. About Irklang Dimensions: variable Material: Mixed media sound […]
Read MoreOn the 22th of April 2009 I performed together with some other musicians a composition by and with Nicolas Collins at Pfefferberg/Berlin.
Read MoreI performed together with some other musicians the composition “Give me a F” for ship horns by Tilman Küntzel at the “Licht-Klang-Festival transNATURALE” at Bärwalder See/Germany.
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