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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.

With "Arabesque" I have concerned myself not only with the sculpting of three dimensions but also with a fourth, the dimension of time. I have endeavored to create a sculpture that evolves transforms and even regresses. An artwork that falls

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

Animal experimentation is a common practice for people. We have used the standard metaphor of a mouse in a labyrinth to study the mechanics of how reality of shaped. The mouse is rigidly influenced by its own unrealized reality. We observe how it

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

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

Continuum is a mirror that "captures" anything that moves before it. Anything that does not move is not reflected but is lost in the inky blackness of the background of the screen image. Continuum is a "mirror" that "reflects" things as both a

Beijing Accelerator was created after being inspired by a recent visit to Beijing, and the realization of how quickly the dynamics of a city could transform into such apparent modernism. Although similar to an earlier prototype, Panoramic

Agent captures people as a temporal trace. If a viewer remains stationary in the space before the screen they progressively become more solid and corporeal in their appearance. If they move they transform into a will'o'wisp like ghost or sprite,