Klangkanal

Locations
Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe at Rondellplatz, Karl-Friedrich-Straße 17, 76247 Karlsruhe

Time
From September 17, 2021
Monday–Sunday: 10 am–10 pm

Sound as a medium of art is the starting point of this media art work by Peter Weibel. The interactive sound installation Klangkanal [Sound channel] invites you to interact with the work through sound, for example, by clapping hands or stamping the feet. The work consists of LEDs, a screen, and microphones, and creates an aesthetic interaction that is generated by the movements and participation of people in front of the shop window. Depending on the volume of noise that you create, the sounds are visualized on the screen via an equalizer. After its presentation in the exhibitions Sound Art 2019 and respektive Peter Weibel 2019 at the ZKM | Karlsruhe, the installation now brings the visual experience of sound into the public realm.

Part of the collection of the ZKM.

Peter Weibel

Peter Weibel (*1944) is an Austrian artist, curator, and media theorist. He is the Chairman and CEO of the ZKM | Karlsruhe and also director of the Peter Weibel Research Institute for Digital Cultures (WID) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. He was Professor of Media Theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (AT) (1984–2011), Head of the Digital Arts Laboratory in the Media Department of the State University of New York at Buffalo (US) (1984–1989), and Founding Director of the Institute for New Media at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main (1989–1994). He lives and works in Karlsruhe and Vienna.