Biography

Konrad Becker is a hyperreality researcher/developer and interdisciplinary event designer. He is chairman of the Institute for New Culture Technologies (Public Netbase, Brain.Vader), the Institut fuer Wissenschaftliche Sensation and Public Tranceport Systems. He is a founding member of Monoton and other groups, providers of fine electronic underground music and psycho-acoustics since 1979. Presentations and publications include text, video, music, installations and environments focusing on subjective science and culture synthesis.

http://netbase.t0.or.at/konrad/

Quotes

Konrad Becker
Synreal Systems. On the politics of cybernetic synformation.

"This is a time where the electronic revolution has to make way for biotechnological impulses. This quick succession of technological turnovers with its formative implications on culture and directed awareness is unique in history. But whose story is it anyway?! (...) It is a unique development of the postindustrial information society that all this leads to a strange marriage between capital and intelligence. A certain amount of chaos and self-determination promises higher flexibility, shorter reaction-times and better adaption for nonlinear systems. A targeted influence of the database itself allows for a subtle and far-reaching control over the individual. Style, tact, systems of measures, and other given rulers define the results by the measurements - the observer-defined Universe as ‘What You Measure Is What You Get’ system. (...) Very real, more real, less real? Synreal! The self-similar structure of the God & Golem Inc. scenario is growing in complexity the more levels are reached. But which secret golemgods rule the citadel of definition?"