Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges

Benjamin Bacon is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and musician. His practice and research sit at the intersections of computational media, machine and robotic art, networked systems, 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 at venues such as the Chelsea Museum (NYC), Gallery Ho (NYC), the National Art Museum of China (Beijing), Millennium Museum (Beijing), Plug-In Gallery (Switzerland), Art Laboratory Berlin (Berlin) and more. 

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.

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.

He is 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 fellow at V2_Lab for the Unstable Media since 2019 and the co-chair of the XResearch Cluster.