Tim Ra (aka Robert Defcon) is a Berlin-based artist, musician, author and curator working across sound, moving image and spatial practice. His work explores the transdimensional phenomenon situated between waking consciousness and dream states — a field he describes as the “Dreamspace”.
Ra develops musical works ranging from noir jazz to hip hop and contemporary electronic composition. These releases — often accompanied by video works — are presented as immersive listening and screening experiences within Lovelab Dreamspace.
Alongside his artistic practice, Tim Ra works as a journalist and book author, writing on culture, technology and contemporary artistic production, and has published numerous oral history works. In recent years, his research and public work have focused on artificial intelligence in the arts, examining its aesthetic, philosophical and ethical implications.
As founder and curator of Lovelab Dreamspace, Ra integrates artistic production, writing and curatorial framing into a coherent salon format. Each exhibition and event unfolds as a numbered Dream, part of an ongoing artistic inquiry into the Dreamspace as the realm of dreaming and its translation into shared cultural space.