Boris Debackere
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- Transmedia
Other Affiliation(s):
- LUCA School of Arts
ISEA Bio(s) Available:
ISEA2023
Boris Debackere (NL) is Lab Manager at V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam, an instigator of artistic projects which interrogate and illuminate contemporary issues in art, science, technology, and society. He is also a researcher lecturing at the Media and Information Design department of LUCA School of Arts. As a media artist focusing on sound, his practice revolves around the materiality and performativity of media that appear as virtual environments.
ISEA2019
Boris Debackere is an artist and researcher lecturing at LUCA School of Arts, KU Leuven, Belgium. Debackere is currently serving as the head of V2_Lab in Rotterdam, Netherlands, an instigator of artistic projects that interrogate and illuminate contemporary issues in art, science, technology, and society. As a media artist, his primary interest lies in the interplay of art with the social and technological space. In the field of digital art, his practice has a multimedial character with a recurring key concept: to experience the materiality and performativity of a medium that might appear to be a virtual environment. Debackere received the Liedts-Meesen new media nomination 2010, won the Georges Delete 2014 Prize for Best Original Music and Sound Design and received the 2015 Ensor Sound Design Award.
ISEA2014
Boris Debackere, BE, LUCA School of the Arts Brussels, Head of V2_Lab, Rotterdam, NL. Artist and sound designer for film. Co‑curator of the Dutch Electronic Art Festival.
ISEA2011
Boris Debackere is manager of the V2_lab, media artist and teaching at Transmedia, a postgraduate program in Arts + Media + Design in Brussel (B). As a media artist his main interest is the possible integration of different expression forms, with an emphasis on electronic sound and image. Most recent work and research is concentrated on translating and transforming the cinema concept into other forms like Live Cinema performances and audiovisual installations. His work includes ‘vortices’ and ‘probe’ reactive installations dealing with the relationship between the viewer and the screen.
Last Known Location:
- Belgium
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Title: Protocollision
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ISEA2000
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Title: The Locus of Action: Tinted Windows
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ISEA2014
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Title: All That is Signal Distorts into Noise
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ISEA2016
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Title: Multi-viewpoint Strategies: Ambisonic Auralization and Localization through Walking and Listening as Places of Negotiation in Conditions of Hybridity and Change
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ISEA2019
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Title: The Critical AI Manifesto
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ISEA2019
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Title: Realities in Transition
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ISEA2023
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