Peter Weibel
Peter Weibel ( born March 5, 1944 in Odessa, Ukraine) is an Austrian artist, curator, art and media theorist.
- 2.1 Curatorial Projects
- 2.2 Solo Exhibitions
- 2.3 Group Exhibitions
Life
Peter Weibel spent his childhood and school years in a home in a small town in Upper Austria. After school, he studied for a year in Paris French, Film and Comparative Literature, then began in Vienna in 1964 to study medicine until he moved specializing in logic to mathematics.
His work can be divided into categories of conceptual art, performance, experimental film, video art, computer art and generally the so-called media art grasp.
On the basis of semiotic and linguistic considerations (Austin, Jakobson, Peirce, Wittgenstein, and others) Peter Weibel developed an artistic language that takes him from 1965 of the experimental literature on performance. In his performative actions he examines not only the " media " Language and body, but also film, video, tape and interactive electronic environments. He critically analyzes their function for the construction of reality. In addition to actions with representatives of the Vienna activism he has worked since 1967 (together with Valie Export, Ernst Schmidt Jr. and Hans Scheugl ) on a "expanded cinema ". It is inspired by the American Expanded Cinema and reflects the ideological and technical conditions of cinematic representation. Peter Weibel developed these reflections from 1969 consistent in his videotapes and installations on. With its TV operations, the tele actions, the Austrian television (ORF ) in 1972 as part of the broadcast aired impulses, he crossed the boundaries of the gallery space and examined the video technology in their application in the mass medium of television.
On June 7, 1968 Weibel took part in the " Art and Revolution " in a lecture hall at the University of Vienna, where he gave a talk ( rant ) against the government of the day with a burning glove. The lecture was entitled What to do? , In imitation of the famous Lenin font. The action was one of the highlights of the 1968 student movement in Austria.
Peter Weibel follows his artistic problems in different materials, shapes and techniques: in texts, sculptures, installations, films and videos. So he turned to 1978, the music. He founded together with Loys Egg the band " Hotel Morphila orchestra". Mid-1980s, he explored the possibilities of computer-based editing video. In the early 1990s he realized first interactive computer based installations, with which he did address the relationship between media and reality construction.
In his numerous lectures and articles Weibel publishes on contemporary art, media history, media theory, film, video art and philosophy. As a theorist and curator, he is committed to an art and art history, taking into account the history of technology and science history. In his role as a teacher at universities and longtime head of institutions such as Ars Electronica, Linz, Institute for New Media in Frankfurt am Main, and the Center for Art and Media Technology ( ZKM) in Karlsruhe he influenced particularly the European scene of the so-called computer art by conferences, exhibitions and publications.
Peter Weibel leads since 1999, the Center for Art and Media Technology in Karlsruhe.
Research and teaching
Peter Weibel taught since 1976 at several universities, including the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the College of Art and Design in Halifax, Canada, and the University of Kassel. In 1984 he was appointed for five years as an Associate Professor for Video and Digital Arts at the Center for Media Study of the State University of New York at Buffalo, N. Y.. In 1984 he was appointed professor of visual media design ( Vismed ) at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He was charged with the establishment of the Institute for New Media at the Städel School in Frankfurt am Main in 1989, which he directed until 1994 as a director. Since 2009 he has been a visiting professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Curatorial activity
Since 1986, Peter Weibel artistic advisor of the Ars Electronica from 1992 to 1995 its artistic director. From 1993 to 1999 he curated the Pavilion of the State of Austria on the Venice Biennale. Between 1992 and 2011 he was chief curator of the Neue Galerie Graz. In 2008 he curated the International Biennial of Seville. 2011 he has been curator of the 4th Moscow Biennale. Since January 1999, Weibel is a board of the Center for Art and Media Technology in Karlsruhe.
Projects and exhibitions
Curatorial projects
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Awards
Publications
- With Valie Export: Image Compendium Vienna activism and film. Carbon art Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1970.
- Criticism of art. Art of criticism: it says & I say. Youth and Community, Vienna, Munich 1973.
- Working in the media of language, writing, paper, stone, photo, sound, film and video from twenty years. Number of protocols. Born 1982, Vol 2, Youth and Culture, Vienna, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-224-16617-7.
- With Werner DePauli - Schimanovich: Kurt Godel. A mathematical myth. Hölder - Pichler- Tempsky, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-209-00865-5.
- Life longing and addiction. Merve Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-88396-174-4.
- Gamma and amplitude. Media and art theory. Edited by Rolf Sachsse. Philo Philo & Fine Arts, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-86572-515-5.
- Peter Weibel. The open work 1964-1979. Cantz, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-7757-1539-3.