Peter Weibel
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March 5, 1944 Odessa, USSR |
| Occupation | Artist, curator, theoretician |
Peter Weibel (German: [ˈvaɪbəl]; born 5 March 1944 in Odessa, USSR) is an Austrian artist, curator and theoretician.
Raised in Upper Austria he started to study French and cinematography in Paris. In 1964 he began to study medicine in Vienna, but changed soon to mathematics, with an emphasis on logic.
Peter Weibel’s oeuvre belong in the following categories: conceptual art, performance, 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 has explored not only the "media" language and body, but also film, video, audiotape and interactive electronic environments. Critically he analyzed their function for the construction of reality. Besides taking part in happenings with members of the Vienna Actionism, he developed from 1967 (together with Valie Export, Ernst Schmidt Jr. and Hans Scheugl) an "expanded cinema" inspired by the American one and reflects the ideological and technological conditions of cinematic representation. Weibel elaborated on these reflections, from 1969, in his video tapes and installations. With his television action "tv und vt works", which was broadcast by the Austrian Television (ORF) in 1972, he transcended the borders of the gallery space and queried video technology in its application as a mass medium.
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