Peter Weibel

Chants of the Pluriverse

The photo shows a woman lying on a rattan couch. Above the couch is a metal frame which allows a screen to float in the air. On this runs the work Pluriversum by Peter Weibel.
Artists
Peter Weibel
Title
Chants of the Pluriverse
Year
1986 – 1988
Medium / Material / Technic
11 channel video installation; video, digitized, color, sound
Size / Duration
dimensions variable

The multi-channel video installation »Gesänge des Pluriversums« [Chants of the pluriverse] is Peter Weibel’s chief videographic work. The electronic sculpture combines the media of video, photography, film, and computer. Digital techniques and special effects assemble the different elements into an audiovisual pluriverse – or rather multiverse – of the age of technology. The impressive anthology of digital special effects that Weibel accumulated in two years of work (1986–88) visualizes the techno-transformation of the world over the last 200 years, from the wheel-based industrial revolution to the data-based post-industrial information revolution. The new experience of space and time, whose relations can be changed at will, and the many possible worlds in electronic space-time are celebrated in song.

Images

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  • The photo shows a woman lying on a rattan couch. Above the couch is a metal frame which allows a screen to float in the air. On this runs the work Pluriversum by Peter Weibel.
    Peter Weibel, »Media Lounger«, contains: »Pluriversum XI Time as Code«, 1986 and »Venus im Pelz«, 2003 / © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo: Tobias Wootton

Images

Overview
  • The photo shows a woman lying on a rattan couch. Above the couch is a metal frame which allows a screen to float in the air. On this runs the work Pluriversum by Peter Weibel.
    Peter Weibel, »Media Lounger«, contains: »Pluriversum XI Time as Code«, 1986 and »Venus im Pelz«, 2003 / © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo: Tobias Wootton