Marc Böhlen is a trained stone mason, an art historian and a robotics engineer. Böhlen’s practice is tightly coupled to engineering research in methodology and succinctly different from it in scope and critical focus; an ongoing effort to diversify machine culture by rearranging quantitative media to qualitative events.

His contributions to electronic arts as well as robotics and ambient systems have been recognized internationally. Recent art work has been shown at the Beall Center for Art+Technology, (Irvine), Cynetart, (Dresden) and Ars Electronica (Linz). Recent publications include Robots with Bad Accents; Living with Synthetic Speech (Leonardo/MIT Press 2008), Second Order Ambient Intelligence (Amsterdam, IOS Press, 2009) and MicroPublicPlaces (Architectural League NY, 2010). See www.realtechsupport.org