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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....
  • A sculptural homage to the helicopter attack scene from the film Apocalypse Now! Duplicate robots dangle from a metal frame, with arrays of black rods joining each of the eight Fedora hats to these machines. The Squadron is in flight formation and...
  • AutoGene initially entices viewers with a sense of familiarity, appearing as a simple commodity sculpture. However, this impression is rapidly dispelled - with the push of a button. The circular arrangement of the sculpture, paired with the dramatic...
  • "Arabesque" is a kinetic artwork with roots in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Alchemist's Laboratory. A composition of life-sized cast human body parts (incidentally casts of my own body). These translucent entities impaled upon their internal...
  • 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...