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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.

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 robotic mechanisms...

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...