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... from which the desire for metaphor (and...

... and left words of despair on abandonned...

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.

... This alludes to an invisible human...

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

... by either its own destruction or the...

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