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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.
  • Instant Places is a software fiction that creates a networked formed ad hoc to connect dispersed data places. These data places can stretch over multiple computers and also multiple network systems. They are not bound by geography, time and space.
  • 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
  • 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