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

LABoral SummerLAB 2017

Happy to announce that I will be part of this fantastic 2-day programme of workshops, roundtables and installations at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Gijón, Spain. The purpose of summerLAB is to exchange experiences of community work that promote the creative and critical use of […]

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Blackout Privacy – Conference and Exhibition

I’ve been invited by Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt to give a talk about privacy and to show one related artwork of mine in the context of their first ‘Blackout Privacy’ conference and exhibition. Unfortunately, due to time issues, I had to cancel the talk, but my Pixelhead will be […]

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Lectureship @ btk

The new semester starts and I am again responsible for the “Sound Communication and Design” course at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin…..great!

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