Peter Weibel (1944)
Austria


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Peter Weibel (1944, Odessa) is an artist, curator and theorist. Peter Weibel's work falls into the following categories: conceptual art, performance art, experimental film, video art and computer art. Starting in 1965 from semiotic and linguistic reflections (Austin, Jakobson, Peirce, Wittgenstein), Peter Weibel developed an artistic language which led him from experimental literature to performance. In his performative actions he explored not only the language and body of "media", but also film, video, television, soundtrack and interactive electronic environments. He critically analyzed their function for the construction of reality. In addition to taking part in events with members of Vienna Actionism, from 1967 he developed (with Valie Export, Ernst Schmidt Jr. and Hans Scheugl) a "developed cinema" inspired by American cinema and reflecting the ideological and technological conditions of cinematographic representation. . Weibel developed these thoughts from 1969 onwards in his videotapes and installations. With his television action "tv und vt works", broadcast by Austrian Television (ORF) in 1972, he transcended the boundaries of the gallery and questioned video technology in its application as a mass media. In 1977, Peter Weibel presented the first international video art program at the Ganz Culture House in Budapest. A publication was produced on this occasion and included texts by László Beke, Tibor Hajas, László Najmányi and Dóra Maurer. (The texts were republished in 1988 by the Kossuth cinema entitled Video Art.)

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