Konrad Becker

Konrad Becker (born 9 January 1959 in Vienna) is an Austrian media researcher, artist, author, composer, producer and actor working in the field of art and electronic media. He is director of the Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0 and the World-Information Institute / World-Information.Org, and was co-founder and chairman of Public Netbase, which operated from 1994 to 2006.

Music and acting

As an actor, Becker appeared in Austrian and German film and television productions. His film roles include Kassbach – Ein Porträt (1979), Exit... nur keine Panik (1980) and the role of Bockstiegel in Wolfgang Petersen's anti-war film Das Boot (1981).

In 1979 Becker founded the electronic music project Monoton. The project released Monotonprodukt 07 in 1982. In 1998, The Wire included the album in its list of “100 records that set the world on fire”.

Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0, Public Netbase and World-Information.Org

Becker is associated with the Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0 and with several media-culture initiatives in Vienna. Public Netbase, co-founded by Becker and Francisco de Sousa Webber, operated from 1994 to 2006 as a platform for digital culture, net art and media activism.

The Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0 and its related projects included Public Netbase and World-Information.Org. The current World-Information Institute describes its focus as digital culture, information politics, research and knowledge transfer.

Becker has conceptualized conferences, exhibitions and research projects in the fields of media culture, information politics and digital networks. Konrad Becker and Felix Stalder, eds. Deep Search: The Politics of Search beyond Google. Studienverlag, Innsbruck, 2009. . Strategic Reality Dictionary: Deep Infopolitics and Cultural Intelligence. Autonomedia, New York, 2009. . Konrad Becker and Martin Wassermair, eds. Phantom Kulturstadt. Löcker, Vienna, 2009. . Konrad Becker and Martin Wassermair, eds. Fiktion und Wirkungsmacht. Löcker, Vienna, 2016. .

Filmography