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... up in the air around them. And it was real! When they saw this, the citizens rushed them to an old market by the sea and started some serious shopping. And it was all free! And the bliss of all these bargains was so uplifting that overnight, it became...

...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). The glas canvas (=...

... worlds, that are partly controllable by the viewer. Hypothetical creatures, autonomous and life-like, live in these worlds. Artificial life becomes an aesthetic metaphor in this installation.

"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 a fourth, the dimension of time. I have endeavored to create a sculpture that evolves transforms and even regresses. An artwork that falls somewhere in between conventional notions of pictorial art and performance. “Arabesque” as its roots in Mary...

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

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,

...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 little coordinate system...

... 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 using everyday items, which...