Benjamin Bacon is an Associate Professor of Media & Arts and Major Convener of Computation & Design. He is the co-director of the Duke-DKU Presence Lab and DTRM Lab. He is a lifetime research fellow at V2_Lab for the Unstable Media (NL) and the co-lead of the Art, Media, Cybernetics working group at the American Society of Cybernetics.

His practice explores computational methods and their relationship with society. These exploratory trajectories have been manifested in scholarship, computational media, machine art, sound, body hacking, and experimental uses of materials and mediums. His creations have taken the form of mechanical sculptures, machine-learning neural networks, networked systems, experimental interfaces, body hacking, and sound. His artistic methodology is rooted in the research process and is fundamentally experimental, often relying on direct interaction with materials. His conceptual approach is at times playful, critical, interpretive, and speculative.

His work has been exhibited at venues such as the Chelsea Museum, Gallery Ho, NAMOC, Millennium Museum, Plug-In Gallery, Art Laboratory Berlin, among others. The New York Times, Rizhome, Creators Project, LEAP Magazine, The Art Newspaper, Neural Magazine, CLOT Magazine, and others have profiled his work. His music has been collected and released through local and international labels.