- Kunshan, China
Sturgeon Bay, WI, USA - +8618516293275
Benjamin L Bacon
Duke Kunshan University | 昆山杜克大学, Arts and Humanities, Faculty Member
- Art and Science, Design and Technology, New Media Art, Contemporary Art, Art Theory, Anthropology, and 19 moreInternational Relations, Arts and Design Technology, Sound Art, Computational Musicology, Computational Design, Art and Design, Design, Bioart, Physical Computing, Machine Learning, Visual Communication, Computer Progamming, Materials Science, Sound Design, Experimental biophysics, Art, Visual Arts, New Media, and Human Enhancementedit
- Benjamin Bacon is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and musician. His practice and research sit at the intersections of computational design, networked systems, machine art, digital fabrication, and sound. His body of work has been exhibited in various venues worldwide, including North America, Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East. Bacon’s practice centers around explorations into computation, its qualiti... moreBenjamin Bacon is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and musician. His practice and research sit at the intersections of computational design, networked systems, machine art, digital fabrication, and sound. His body of work has been exhibited in various venues worldwide, including North America, Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East.
Bacon’s practice centers around explorations into computation, its qualities and characteristics as a creative medium, and its changing relationship with society and industry perception. His creations have taken the form of mechanical sculptures, machine learning neural networks, networked systems, experimental interfaces, body-hacking, and sound. His methodology as an artist is fundamentally rooted in the design research process. It is experimental in its essence, often reliant on direct interaction with materials. His conceptual approach is at times playful, at times critical, at times commentary, and at times speculative.
Bacon’s work has been profiled by print magazines such as Design 360, IDEAT Magazine, and Modern Weekly, as well as online magazines and platforms such as the New York Times, Rizhome, Creators Project (China), LEAP, The Art Newspaper, Neural Magazine, and CLOT Magazine. Music and sound have maintained a strong presence in his practice. His music has been collected and released on compilation albums such as Thanks for Stopping By (Guangzhou Underground Records) under the stage name Artifact Unknown, Taxeee Tapes Vol. 3 (87Fei87 Records), Face the Beat Session 4 (Sideline Music), and Re-Charge Music Compilation Volume I (Mao Re-Charge) under the stage name SoundSpade. His work in technology, sound and music has led to interviews with RADII China and the German National Radio and an invited talk at TEDxNingbo.
Benjamin Bacon is currently an Associate Professor of Media and Art at Duke Kunshan University and co-director of the Design, Technology, and Radical Media Lab. He is also a lifetime fellow at V2_Lab for the Unstable Media since 2019 and the co-chair of the XResearch Cluster at V2_ with Boris Debackere.edit
Benjamin Bacon is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and musician. His practice and research sit at the intersections of computational design, networked systems, machine art, digital fabrication, and sound. His body of work has been... more
Benjamin Bacon is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and musician. His practice and research sit at the intersections of computational design, networked systems, machine art, digital fabrication, and sound. His body of work has been exhibited in various venues worldwide, including North America, Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East.
Bacon’s practice centers around explorations into computation, its qualities and characteristics as a creative medium, and its changing relationship with society and industry perception. His creations have taken the form of mechanical sculptures, machine learning neural networks, networked systems, experimental interfaces, body-hacking, and sound. His methodology as an artist is fundamentally rooted in the design research process. It is experimental in its essence, often reliant on direct interaction with materials. His conceptual approach is at times playful, at times critical, at times commentary, and at times speculative.
Bacon’s work has been profiled by print magazines such as Design 360, IDEAT Magazine, and Modern Weekly, as well as online magazines and platforms such as the New York Times, Rizhome, Creators Project (China), LEAP, The Art Newspaper, Neural Magazine, and CLOT Magazine. Music and sound have maintained a strong presence in his practice. His music has been collected and released on compilation albums such as Thanks for Stopping By (Guangzhou Underground Records) under the stage name Artifact Unknown, Taxeee Tapes Vol. 3 (87Fei87 Records), Face the Beat Session 4 (Sideline Music), and Re-Charge Music Compilation Volume I (Mao Re-Charge) under the stage name SoundSpade. His work in technology, sound and music has led to interviews with RADII China and the German National Radio and an invited talk at TEDxNingbo.
Benjamin Bacon is currently an Associate Professor of Media and Art at Duke Kunshan University and co-director of the Design, Technology, and Radical Media Lab. He is also a lifetime fellow at V2_Lab for the Unstable Media since 2019 and the co-chair of the XResearch Cluster at V2_ with Boris Debackere.
Bacon’s practice centers around explorations into computation, its qualities and characteristics as a creative medium, and its changing relationship with society and industry perception. His creations have taken the form of mechanical sculptures, machine learning neural networks, networked systems, experimental interfaces, body-hacking, and sound. His methodology as an artist is fundamentally rooted in the design research process. It is experimental in its essence, often reliant on direct interaction with materials. His conceptual approach is at times playful, at times critical, at times commentary, and at times speculative.
Bacon’s work has been profiled by print magazines such as Design 360, IDEAT Magazine, and Modern Weekly, as well as online magazines and platforms such as the New York Times, Rizhome, Creators Project (China), LEAP, The Art Newspaper, Neural Magazine, and CLOT Magazine. Music and sound have maintained a strong presence in his practice. His music has been collected and released on compilation albums such as Thanks for Stopping By (Guangzhou Underground Records) under the stage name Artifact Unknown, Taxeee Tapes Vol. 3 (87Fei87 Records), Face the Beat Session 4 (Sideline Music), and Re-Charge Music Compilation Volume I (Mao Re-Charge) under the stage name SoundSpade. His work in technology, sound and music has led to interviews with RADII China and the German National Radio and an invited talk at TEDxNingbo.
Benjamin Bacon is currently an Associate Professor of Media and Art at Duke Kunshan University and co-director of the Design, Technology, and Radical Media Lab. He is also a lifetime fellow at V2_Lab for the Unstable Media since 2019 and the co-chair of the XResearch Cluster at V2_ with Boris Debackere.
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The COVID-19 Memory Archival Project is an educational and scholarly initiative that seeks to preserve individual and shared experiences and reflections during the COVID-19 outbreak through rich media storytelling and geographic... more
The COVID-19 Memory Archival Project is an educational and scholarly initiative that seeks to preserve individual and shared experiences and reflections during the COVID-19 outbreak through rich media storytelling and geographic information system (GIS) mapping. In this chapter, we introduce the archive project and story map collection as an inquiry into participatory and immersive digital archiving as a means for understanding personal memory, experience, identity and agency in the media aftermath of a global pandemic. Originally initiated as a response to emergency online teaching during the early stages of the COVID-19 lockdown, we explore the pedagogical potential of the ArcGIS StoryMaps platform in the undergraduate classroom. Through analysis of archive story maps and comparative studies with earlier community-based disaster-oriented online archives, we present new insights into the media moment of 2020, and how that shapes perception and understanding of complex events. Finally, we reflect upon the function of virtual memorials and how they might facilitate discourse and contribute to broader geocultural dialogues.