Diego Behncke is a Berlin-based artist whose work is realized through the frameworks of fictional systems, abstraction, and synthesis. Taking form through obfuscation operations involving installations, synthetic sound, film, and performances, his works appear as an abuse of conceptual and technical byproducts, a foregrounding of epistemic faults, and a strategic misdirection of ambiguity. He is especially interested in working through makeshift and diagonal approaches, skeptically examining standardized forms of aesthetic cognizance.
In live performances, he employs non-linear sound synthesis techniques by means of feedback and hybrid arrangements of machine listening, coupling analog electronic circuits with computational analysis arrangements in recursive manners; responding to the results, he acts as a regulator of the adaptive system and influences formal changes based on salient features of the process itself.
As part of his practice, he runs the experimental music label Prensa Manual.