Event
The Role of Pictures in Society
Fri, January 20 – Sun, January 22, 2006
Media Theater
Lecture/Talk
Peter Weibel: Kunst und/als Wissenschaft
- Date created
- Duration
- 29:47
Description
Peter Weibel, Director of ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Born 1944 in Odessa. From 1984 Professor of Visual Media Design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Founded the Institute for New Media at the Städelschule in Frankfurt/M. in 1989. From 1986 to 1995 artistic advisor to the Ars Electronica, Linz, later artistic director. From 1993 to 1998 curator of the Neue Galerie Graz. Since 1999 Director of the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe.
His publications include (selection): "Kritik der Kunst, Kunst der Kritik : es says & I say", Vienna 1973; "Mediendichtung: Arbeiten in d. Medien Sprache, Schrift, Papier, Stein, Foto, Ton, Film u. Video aus 20 Jahren", Vienna 1982; "Zur Geschichte und Ästhetik der digitalen Kunst", supplement to the Ars Electronica '84 Catalogue (ed.), Linz 1984; "Die Beschleunigung der Bilder in der Chronokratie", Bern 1987; "Inszenierte Kunst Geschichte", Vienna 1988; "Vom Verschwinden der Ferne. Telekommunikation und Kunst" (ed., with E. Decker), Cologne 1990; "Inklusion: Exclusion", (Symposium, ed., with S. Zizek), Vienna 1997; Catalogue "Kunst ohne Unikat : Edition Artelier 1985-1998", (ed.), Kaiserslautern 1998; "Globale Gier" (ed.), Klagenfurt 1999; net_condition (ed., with T. Druckrey), Cambridge, Mass. 2000; "Iconoclash" (ed., with Bruno Latour), Cambridge, Mass. 2002; "Making Things Public. Atmospheres of Democracy" (ed., with Bruno Latour) Karlsruhe/Cambridge, Mass. 2005