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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.

... body parts (incidentally casts of my own...

Turnstile II creates a virtual gateway where an endless realm of content is generated by the live culling of network objects from HTML pages, live chat and email archives. Through a familiar interface of a typewriter printing characters onto the

... in the story, suddenly something will happen...

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

... and gives precedence to one version or 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

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,