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  • Liquid Views - video
    LIQUID VIEWS (1992) - TOUCHING THE VIRTUAL SELF Liquid Views explores the concept of self-reflection in a digital pool. Like Narcissus gazing into the water, visitors see themselves, creating ripples with their touch. But here's the twist: the
  • BERLIN-CYBER CITY - VIRTUAL WALKS THROUGH REUNITED BERLIN (1989–90) Berlin-Cyber City was created in response to the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. The work reveals the historical upheaval through virtual walks and initiates a
  • Unsorted cipher absorbed in copiousness.
  • 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).
  • netomat is a web browser that takes visitors for a ride into an unexplored internet. Unlike traditional web browsers, which retrieve only predefined web content and rely on the model of the page, netomat engages a different internet -- one that is
  • 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.
  • "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
  • 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
  • Two video projections are confronted on the same screen. The first shows the bodies of African dancers in exultant movements, gradually moving into a trance. The other presents the State’s armed forces: the worrying and repressive face of the
  • Doors -
    Two worlds that everything keeps apart are brought together on opposite sides of the same screen. In a narrow street in an Afghan village, men are drinking tea and reading texts. A door is in the centre, opening onto another door in the image on the