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Born 1944 in [[Odessa]], Ukraine. Artist, curator and theoretician.
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'''Peter Weibel''' (5 March 1944, [[Odessa]], Ukraine - 1 March 2023, [[Karlsruhe]]) was an artist, curator and theoretician. From 1999 he was the director of the [[ZKM|ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe]].  
  
Raised in Upper Austria he starts to study French and cinematography in Paris. In 1964 he begins to study medicine in Vienna, but changes soon to mathematics, with an emphasis on logic.
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Peter Weibel’s oeuvre can be described in the following categories: Conceptual Art, Performance, Experimental Film, Video art and Computer art.
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Starting from semiotic and linguistic reflections (Austin, Jakobson, Peirce, Wittgenstein, ...) as from 1965 Peter Weibel develops an artistic language, which leads him from experimental literature to performance. In his performative actions he explores not only the "media" language and body, but also film, video, audiotape and interactive electronic environments. Critically he analyzes their function for the construction of reality. Besides taking part in happenings with members of the Vienna Actionism he develops as from 1967 (together with Valie Export, Ernst Schmidt jr. and Hans Scheugl) an "expanded cinema". It is inspired by the American Expanded Cinema and reflects the ideological and technological conditions of cinematic representation. Peter Weibel elaborates these reflections as from 1969 in his video tapes and installations. With his television action "tv und vt works", which is broadcasted by the Austrian Television (ORF) in 1972 he transcends the borders of the gallery space and queries video technology in its application as a mass medium.
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Having grown up in Upper Austria, Peter Weibel first studied French and French literature in Paris for a year, then began studying medicine in Vienna in 1964 before switching to mathematics, specialising in logic.
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Peter Weibel follows his artistic aims using a large variety of materials, forms and techniques: text, sculpture, installation, film and video. In 1978 he turns to music. Together with Loys Egg he founds the band "Hotel Morphila Orchester". In the mid 1980s he explores the possibilities of computer aided video processing. Beginning of the 1990s he realizes interactive computer-based installations. Here again he addresses the relation between media and the construction of reality.
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The majority of Peter Weibel's work can be categorised as conceptual art, performance, experimental film, video art, computer art and media art in general.
  
In his lectures and articles Weibel comments on contemporary art, media history, media theory, film, Video art and philosophy. As theoretician and curator he pleads for a form of art and art history that includes history of technology and history of science. In his function as a university professor and director of institutions like the Ars Electronica, Linz, the Institute for New Media in Frankfurt and the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe he influenced the European Scene of the so called Computer art through conferences, exhibitions and publications.
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Based on semiotic and linguistic considerations (Austin, Jakobson, Peirce, Wittgenstein, etc.), Peter Weibel developed an artistic language that led him from experimental literature to performance from 1964 onwards. In his performative actions, he examined not only the "media" of language and the body, but also film, video, tape and interactive electronic environments. He critically analysed their function in the construction of reality. In addition to actions with representatives of the Wiener Gruppe and [[Viennese Actionism]] - to which he gave his name - (Oswald Wiener, Günter Brus, Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, Rudolf Schwarzkogler), from 1966 he worked (together with [[Valie Export]], Ernst Schmidt jr. and Hans Scheugl) on an [[expanded cinema|"expanded cinema"]] that deconstructed the ideological and technical conditions of cinematic representation. Weibel and his circle did not use the term "expanded cinema" until 1968: in the summer of 1968, Weibel had discovered [[George Maciunas]]' Expanded Arts Diagram, which had appeared in the magazine ''film culture'' no. 43 (winter 1966), in Sweden, where he worked in different factories for a few weeks every year.
  
As from 1976 Peter Weibel teaches at numerous universities, among others at the Universität für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada und the Gesamthochschule Kassel. In 1984 he is appointed to teach for five years as Associate Professor for Video and Digital Arts at the Center for Media Study at the State University of New York in Buffalo, New York. The same year, 1984 he becomes Professor for visual media at the Universität für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna, where he is teaching until today. In 1989 he is assigned to set up the Institute for New Media at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, which he heads until 1994.
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Peter Weibel consistently developed these ideas further in his video tapes and installations from 1969 onwards. With his television actions, the teleaktionen, which Austrian Television (ORF) broadcast in 1972 as part of the Impulse programme, he transcended the boundaries of the gallery space and investigated video technology in its application in the mass medium of television.
  
==Curatorial Activities ==
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Peter Weibel pursued his artistic problems in a wide variety of materials, forms and techniques: in texts, sculptures, installations, films and videos. In 1978, he also turned to music. Together with Loys Egg, he founded the band Hotel Morphila Orchester. In the mid-1980s, he explored the possibilities of computer-aided video editing. At the beginning of the 1990s, he realised his first interactive computer-based installations, with which he again addressed the relationship between media and the construction of reality.
Since 1986 Peter Weibel works as artistic advisor for the [[Ars Electronica]], which he then heads from 1992 until 1995 as its artistic director. From 1993 to 1999 he curates the pavilion of [[Austria]] on the Venice Biennial. In the same period, from 1993 to 1999, he works as chief curator at the ''Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum'' in [[Graz]]. Since January 1999 Peter Weibel is Chairman and CEO of the [[ZKM]].
 
  
*2005 "Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht" (with Gregor Jansen), ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
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In his numerous lectures and articles, Weibel has published on contemporary art, media history, media theory, film, video art and philosophy. As a theorist and curator, he advocated an art and art historiography that took into account the history of technology and the history of science. As a teacher at universities and long-time director of institutions such as [[Ars Electronica]] in Linz, the Institute for New Media in Frankfurt am Main and the [[ZKM|ZKM Centre for Art and Media]] in Karlsruhe, he had a particular influence on the European media art scene through conferences, exhibitions and publications. As a curator and theorist, he has always devoted himself to the classical artistic genres - painting and sculpture - and has shown and written about young artists as well as forgotten protagonists whom he has rediscovered for the art world.
*2005 "Making Things Public" (with [[Bruno Latour]]), ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
 
*2003 "M_ARS: Kunst und Krieg" (with Guenther Holler-Schuster), Neue Galerie, Graz
 
*2002 "Future Cinema" (with Jeffrey Shaw), ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
 
*2002 "Iconoclash" (with [[Bruno Latour]]), ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
 
*2000|01 "Olafur Eliasson: Surroundings surroanded", Neue Galerie,  Graz and ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
 
*2000 "Net_condition" (with Walter van der Crijusen, Johannes Goebel, Golo Foellmer, Hans-Peter Schwarz, Jeffrey Shaw, Benjamin Weill) ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
 
*1999|2000 "Der anagrammatische Körper" Kunsthaus Muerz, Muerzzuschlag | Neue Galerie, Graz and ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
 
*1999 "Open Practice", 48th [[Venice Biennale]]
 
*1998 "Jenseits von Kunst", MUHKA, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen; Neue Galerie, Graz; Ludwig-Museum, Budapest
 
*1996 "Inklusion: Exklusion", Steirischen Herbst 96, Graz
 
*1993 "Kontext Kunst", Neue Galerie, Graz
 
*1991 "Das Bild nach dem letzten Bild" (with Kaspar König), Galerie Metropol,  Vienna
 
*1990 "Vom Verschwinden der Ferne" (with Edith Decker), Postmuseum, Frankfurt on the Main
 
*1987 "Logokultur", Universitaet fuer angewandte Kunst,  Vienna
 
*1976 "Oesterreichs Avantgarde 1908-38" (with [[Oswald Oberhuber]]), Galerie naechst St. Stephan,  Vienna
 
  
==Literature==
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* Peter Weibel, ''Kritik der Kunst. Kunst der Kritik: es says & I say, Texte 1965-1973'', Vienna, Munich: Jugend & Volk, 1973.
 
* Peter Weibel, ''Zur Geschichte und Ästhetik der digitalen Kunst. Supplementband der Ars Electronica'', Linz: Linzer Verlagsgesellschaft, 1984.
 
* Peter Weibel, ''Die Beschleunigung der Bilder. In der Chronokratie'', Bern: Benteli, 1987. New edition: Basel: Benteli Verlag, 2003.
 
* Peter Weibel, ''Lebenssehnsucht und Sucht'', Berlin: Merve, 2000.
 
* Peter Weibel, Rolf Sachsse (eds.), ''Gamma und Amplitude. Medien und kunsttheoretische Schriften'', Berlin: Fundus, 2004.
 
* Peter Weibel, ''Time Slot. Geschichte und Zukunft der apparativen Wahrnehmung vom Phenakistiskop bis zum Quantenkino'', Cologne: Walther König, 2006.
 
* [http://www.peter-weibel.at/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=74&Itemid=23 Books by Weibel]
 
  
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Peter Weibel has taught at numerous universities since 1976, including the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the College of Art and Design in Halifax, Canada and the Gesamthochschule Kassel. In 1984, he was appointed Associate Professor for Video and Digital Arts at the Department for Media Study at the State University of New York in Buffalo, N.Y., where he set up the Digital Arts Laboratory. In the same year, 1984, he was appointed Professor of Visual Media Design (Vis.Med) at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, which he held until 2017. In 1989, he was commissioned to set up the "Institute for New Media" at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, which he headed as director until 1994. From January 1999, he was a member of the board of the ZKM | Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe and, since 2017, director of the Peter Weibel Research Institute for Digital Cultures at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. [https://www.peter-weibel.at/chronologie/kurzbiografie/ (2024)]
* Veruschka Bódy, Peter Weibel (eds.), ''Clip, Klapp, Bum: Von der visuellen Musik zum Musikvideo'', Cologne: Dumont Taschenbücher, 1987. [http://continuo-docs.tumblr.com/post/36339371599/veruschka-body-peter-weibl-clip-klapp-bum]
 
* [http://www.peter-weibel.at/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70&Itemid=8 Edited books]
 
* [http://www.peter-weibel.at/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=73&Itemid=24 Catalogues]
 
  
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==Publications==
* [http://www.peter-weibel.at/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=80&Itemid=9 Articles by Weibel]
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===Books===
  
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* ''Kritik der Kunst. Kunst der Kritik: es says & I say, Texte 1965-1973'', Vienna and Munich: Jugend & Volk, 1973.
* Gabriella Bartha, [http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9611/msg00003.html "Computers do what? Interview with Peter Weibel", ''Nettime'', 1996.
 
  
==External links==
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* ''Zur Geschichte und Ästhetik der digitalen Kunst. Supplementband der Ars Electronica'', Linz: Linzer Verlagsgesellschaft, 1984.
* [http://www.peter-weibel.at/ Home page]
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* editor, with Veruschka Bódy, ''Clip, Klapp, Bum: Von der visuellen Musik zum Musikvideo'', Cologne: Dumont Taschenbücher, 1987. [http://continuo-docs.tumblr.com/post/36339371599/veruschka-body-peter-weibl-clip-klapp-bum]
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* ''Die Beschleunigung der Bilder. In der Chronokratie'', Bern: Benteli, 1987; new ed., Basel: Benteli, 2003.
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* editor, with Edith Decker, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=6005 Vom Verschwinden der Ferne: Telekommunikation und Kunst]'', Cologne: DuMont, 1990, 359 pp.
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* ''Lebenssehnsucht und Sucht'', Berlin: Merve, 2000.
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* editor, with Bruno Latour, ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/59c912199ff37c0dc00072c9 Iconoclash: Beyond the Image-Wars in Science, Religion and Art]'', Karlsruhe: ZKM, and Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002, 703 pp. [http://www.iconoclash.de/ Exh.] held at ZKM, May-Sep 2002. {{en}}
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* editor, with Rolf Sachsse, ''Gamma und Amplitude. Medien und kunsttheoretische Schriften'', Berlin: Fundus, 2004.
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* editor, with Bruno Latour, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=2228 Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy]'', MIT Press, 2005, 1072 pp. [http://zkm.de/en/publication/making-things-public-0 Exh.] held at ZKM, Mar-Aug 2005. {{en}}
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* editor, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=699 Beyond Art: A Third Culture. A Comparative Study in Cultures, Art and Science in 20th Century Austria and Hungary]'', Springer, 2005, 616 pp. {{en}}
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* editor, with Georg Flachbart, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=286 Disappearing Architecture: From Real to Virtual to Quantum]'', Springer, 2005, 272 pp. {{en}}
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* ''Time Slot. Geschichte und Zukunft der apparativen Wahrnehmung vom Phenakistiskop bis zum Quantenkino'', Cologne: Walther König, 2006.
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* more: [https://www.peter-weibel.at/monografien-aufsatzsammlungen/ monographs], [https://www.peter-weibel.at/4-herausgeberschaften-1970-1999/ edited books], [https://www.peter-weibel.at/4-kataloge-kuenstler-einzelausstellungen/ catalogues]
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===Essays===
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* [https://www.peter-weibel.at/4-publikationen-artikel-1966-1979/ Articles by Weibel]
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===Interviews===
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* Gabriella Bartha, [http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9611/msg00003.html "Computers do what? Interview with Peter Weibel"], ''Nettime'', 1996. {{en}}
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==Films==
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* ''Peter Weibel – Mein Leben'', dir. Marco Wilms, 2010, 43 min. Documentary. [https://tv.orf.at/program/orf2/peterweibe100.html]
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==Links==
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* [http://www.peter-weibel.at/ Website]
 
* http://www.c3.hu/scca/butterfly/Weibel/cv.html
 
* http://www.c3.hu/scca/butterfly/Weibel/cv.html
 
* http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/stories/storyReader$975
 
* http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/stories/storyReader$975
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Weibel Weibel at Wikipedia]
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* Tributes: [https://orf.at/stories/3307288/ Gerald Heidegger] (ORF.at), [https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/peter-weibel-dead-zkm-media-art-1234659384/ Alex Greenberger] (ArtNews), [https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000144074780/kuenstler-und-medientheoretiker-peter-weibel-gestorben Ronald Pohl, Katharina Rustler] (Der Standard), [https://doi.org/10.1162/octo_a_00488 Koerner] (October).
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Weibel Wikipedia]
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Latest revision as of 09:48, 4 June 2024

Peter Weibel (5 March 1944, Odessa, Ukraine - 1 March 2023, Karlsruhe) was an artist, curator and theoretician. From 1999 he was the director of the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe.

Studies

Having grown up in Upper Austria, Peter Weibel first studied French and French literature in Paris for a year, then began studying medicine in Vienna in 1964 before switching to mathematics, specialising in logic.

Work

The majority of Peter Weibel's work can be categorised as conceptual art, performance, experimental film, video art, computer art and media art in general.

Based on semiotic and linguistic considerations (Austin, Jakobson, Peirce, Wittgenstein, etc.), Peter Weibel developed an artistic language that led him from experimental literature to performance from 1964 onwards. In his performative actions, he examined not only the "media" of language and the body, but also film, video, tape and interactive electronic environments. He critically analysed their function in the construction of reality. In addition to actions with representatives of the Wiener Gruppe and Viennese Actionism - to which he gave his name - (Oswald Wiener, Günter Brus, Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, Rudolf Schwarzkogler), from 1966 he worked (together with Valie Export, Ernst Schmidt jr. and Hans Scheugl) on an "expanded cinema" that deconstructed the ideological and technical conditions of cinematic representation. Weibel and his circle did not use the term "expanded cinema" until 1968: in the summer of 1968, Weibel had discovered George Maciunas' Expanded Arts Diagram, which had appeared in the magazine film culture no. 43 (winter 1966), in Sweden, where he worked in different factories for a few weeks every year.

Peter Weibel consistently developed these ideas further in his video tapes and installations from 1969 onwards. With his television actions, the teleaktionen, which Austrian Television (ORF) broadcast in 1972 as part of the Impulse programme, he transcended the boundaries of the gallery space and investigated video technology in its application in the mass medium of television.

Peter Weibel pursued his artistic problems in a wide variety of materials, forms and techniques: in texts, sculptures, installations, films and videos. In 1978, he also turned to music. Together with Loys Egg, he founded the band Hotel Morphila Orchester. In the mid-1980s, he explored the possibilities of computer-aided video editing. At the beginning of the 1990s, he realised his first interactive computer-based installations, with which he again addressed the relationship between media and the construction of reality.

In his numerous lectures and articles, Weibel has published on contemporary art, media history, media theory, film, video art and philosophy. As a theorist and curator, he advocated an art and art historiography that took into account the history of technology and the history of science. As a teacher at universities and long-time director of institutions such as Ars Electronica in Linz, the Institute for New Media in Frankfurt am Main and the ZKM Centre for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, he had a particular influence on the European media art scene through conferences, exhibitions and publications. As a curator and theorist, he has always devoted himself to the classical artistic genres - painting and sculpture - and has shown and written about young artists as well as forgotten protagonists whom he has rediscovered for the art world.

Research and teaching

Peter Weibel has taught at numerous universities since 1976, including the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the College of Art and Design in Halifax, Canada and the Gesamthochschule Kassel. In 1984, he was appointed Associate Professor for Video and Digital Arts at the Department for Media Study at the State University of New York in Buffalo, N.Y., where he set up the Digital Arts Laboratory. In the same year, 1984, he was appointed Professor of Visual Media Design (Vis.Med) at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, which he held until 2017. In 1989, he was commissioned to set up the "Institute for New Media" at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, which he headed as director until 1994. From January 1999, he was a member of the board of the ZKM | Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe and, since 2017, director of the Peter Weibel Research Institute for Digital Cultures at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. (2024)

Publications[edit]

Books[edit]

  • Kritik der Kunst. Kunst der Kritik: es says & I say, Texte 1965-1973, Vienna and Munich: Jugend & Volk, 1973.
  • Zur Geschichte und Ästhetik der digitalen Kunst. Supplementband der Ars Electronica, Linz: Linzer Verlagsgesellschaft, 1984.
  • editor, with Veruschka Bódy, Clip, Klapp, Bum: Von der visuellen Musik zum Musikvideo, Cologne: Dumont Taschenbücher, 1987. [1]
  • Die Beschleunigung der Bilder. In der Chronokratie, Bern: Benteli, 1987; new ed., Basel: Benteli, 2003.
  • Lebenssehnsucht und Sucht, Berlin: Merve, 2000.
  • editor, with Rolf Sachsse, Gamma und Amplitude. Medien und kunsttheoretische Schriften, Berlin: Fundus, 2004.
  • Time Slot. Geschichte und Zukunft der apparativen Wahrnehmung vom Phenakistiskop bis zum Quantenkino, Cologne: Walther König, 2006.

Essays[edit]

Interviews[edit]

Films[edit]

  • Peter Weibel – Mein Leben, dir. Marco Wilms, 2010, 43 min. Documentary. [2]

Links[edit]