In addition to his successful work as an art and media theorist, exhibition organizer and museum director, the artistic and scientific director of the ZKM | Karlsruhe, Peter Weibel, is also one of the most important international media and conceptual artists. His extraordinary work encompasses topics such as the mechanisms of perception and thought, the intrinsic world of apparatuses, the crisis of representation, the image and the museum, the relationship between art, politics and economics and the conditions of the art operating system.
Based on his intensive engagement with linguistic theory, mathematics and logical philosophy, from 1964 he developed an artistic language that initially led him from visual poetry and experimental literature to performance and the deconstruction of filmic representation. From 1966 onwards, he applied participatory and interactive practices in his works, which led to closed-circuit video installations from 1969 and the first interactive computer installations in the 1980s, in which he addressed the relationship between media and the construction of reality.
