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  • The Wish - video
    "THE WISH" Narration: "Everything was falling. Then the Waves came. They wrapped houses and entire cities. And with them, came the Ears, and the Eyes. And sometimes a Nose would sit on the kid's dinner. With no homes and no cities, the citizens went...
  • Statement of the artist Peter Weibel: "I am holding a speech about the end of time. At the same time blood runs out of my arm into a glas canvas, which covers the whole tv-screen ( the camera is located behind the glas canvas and remains static)....
  • When a visitor steps on one of the 32 sensors on the floor, a screen in front of her shows one of four little digital worlds, that are partly controllable by the viewer. Hypothetical creatures, autonomous and life-like, live in these worlds....
  • "The Invisible" is presented as a sculptural performance consisting of eight duplicate custom-built robots all suspended and arranged evenly in a circular pattern from a metal frame. Fedora hats are attached via a multitude of black rods to each...
  • Giving the first impression of a simple commodity sculpture "AutoGene" lures the viewer into a false sense of security which is then at the flick of a switch rapidly dispelled. The seemingly mundane umbrellas are transformed into magical animated...
  • With "Arabesque" I have concerned myself not only with the sculpting of three dimensions but also with a fourth, the dimension of time. I have endeavored to create a sculpture that evolves transforms and even regresses. An artwork that falls...
  • Inspired by the "Industrial Revolution" and the subsequent changes in human development brought about by that revolution. A path that has and will lead humanity to both heaven and hell. I wanted to try to capture the paradox of this duality by making...
  • Old News -
    Old News (2002) is a sequence of brief interconnecting meditations/prose poems set in a context of current news headlines and photos, which are constantly being updated from various news sources. A variety of technical means are used to emphasize,...
  • Peter Weibel is considered to be one of the poineers of interactive, computerbased installations. In this work from the early nineties, the participants are being filmed upon entering a room. They see "their" film on a large screen while there is a...
  • For the opening night of the #HYPERLINK festival on 26th April 2013, Alex May debuted a 75 minute ‘Painting With Light’ live video mapping art performance in the South Tank at Tate Modern, London. Using his own custom software, Alex creates scenes...