Peter Weibel (German: [ˈvaɪbəl]; born 5 March 1944 in Odessa, USSR)
is an internationally known Austrian post-conceptual artist, curator
and new media theoretician. He started out in 1964 as a visual poet
but soon jumped from the page to the screen within the sense of
post-structuralist methodology. Thanks to this linguistic input into
his visual media works, Weibel developed a critical impulse that
turned against society and the media, while investigating virtual
reality and other digital art forms. Since 1999 he has been director
of the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe.Raised in Upper Austria
he started to study French and cinematography in Paris. In 1964 he
began to study medicine in Vienna, but changed soon to mathematics,
with an emphasis on logic.Peter Weibel’s oeuvre belong in the
following categories: conceptual art, performance, experimental film,
video art and computer art.Starting in 1965 from semiotic and
linguistic reflections (Austin, Jakobson, Peirce, Wittgenstein), Peter
Weibel developed an artistic language, which led him from experimental
literature to performance. In his performative actions, he has
explored not only the "media" language and body, but also film, video,
television, audiotape and interactive electronic environments.
Critically he analyzed their function for the construction of reality.
Besides taking part in happenings with members of the Vienna
Actionism, he developed from 1967 (together with Valie Export, Ernst
Schmidt Jr. and Hans Scheugl) an "expanded cinema" inspired by the
American one and reflects the ideological and technological conditions
of cinematic representation. Weibel elaborated on these reflections,
from 1969, in his video tapes and installations. With his television
action "tv und vt works", which was broadcast by the Austrian
Television (ORF) in 1972, he transcended the borders of the gallery
space and queried video technology in its application as a mass
medium. In 1966 he was with Gustav Metzger, Otto Muehl, Wolf Vostell,
Hermann Nitsch and others a participant of the Destruction in Art
Symposium (DIAS) in London.
is an internationally known Austrian post-conceptual artist, curator
and new media theoretician. He started out in 1964 as a visual poet
but soon jumped from the page to the screen within the sense of
post-structuralist methodology. Thanks to this linguistic input into
his visual media works, Weibel developed a critical impulse that
turned against society and the media, while investigating virtual
reality and other digital art forms. Since 1999 he has been director
of the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe.Raised in Upper Austria
he started to study French and cinematography in Paris. In 1964 he
began to study medicine in Vienna, but changed soon to mathematics,
with an emphasis on logic.Peter Weibel’s oeuvre belong in the
following categories: conceptual art, performance, experimental film,
video art and computer art.Starting in 1965 from semiotic and
linguistic reflections (Austin, Jakobson, Peirce, Wittgenstein), Peter
Weibel developed an artistic language, which led him from experimental
literature to performance. In his performative actions, he has
explored not only the "media" language and body, but also film, video,
television, audiotape and interactive electronic environments.
Critically he analyzed their function for the construction of reality.
Besides taking part in happenings with members of the Vienna
Actionism, he developed from 1967 (together with Valie Export, Ernst
Schmidt Jr. and Hans Scheugl) an "expanded cinema" inspired by the
American one and reflects the ideological and technological conditions
of cinematic representation. Weibel elaborated on these reflections,
from 1969, in his video tapes and installations. With his television
action "tv und vt works", which was broadcast by the Austrian
Television (ORF) in 1972, he transcended the borders of the gallery
space and queried video technology in its application as a mass
medium. In 1966 he was with Gustav Metzger, Otto Muehl, Wolf Vostell,
Hermann Nitsch and others a participant of the Destruction in Art
Symposium (DIAS) in London.
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