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Rewriting History
Peter Weibel
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Listen to a 63 min minute recording, or download the file
Monday, January 04, 2010
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Tel Aviv
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Slought Foundation is pleased to announce "Rewriting History," a public lecture at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Tel Aviv on Monday, January 04, 2010 by artist and Professor Peter Weibel, Chairman and CEO of the ZKM/Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany. This presentation is presented in conjunction with "Slought in Transit," an archival exploration into the activities of Slought Foundation in Philadelphia, which opens at Bezalel on Sunday, January 3, 2010. Associated events include a seminar about Slought Foundation on January 3-4 at Bezalel in Tel Aviv with the organization's curatorial staff, a seminar on January 6 in Jerusalem about the history of the Venice Biennale for architecture by Aaron Levy, followed by a conversation on the contemporary curator and the art of bureaucracy with Peter Weibel.
Click here to download the acccompanying images to Peter Weibel's Presentation (PDF; 14 mb)
For more information on these events and the Slought in Transit exhibition series, please visit http://slought.org/content/11370
Peter Weibel was born in 1944 in Odessa, and lives and works in Karlsruhe, Germany and Vienna, Austria. Since 1966, Weibel has created conceptual photo-literature as well as audio pieces, - texts, -objects and -actions. At the end of the 1960s, he worked in the field of Expanded Cinema, action art, performances and film together with his partner Valie Export. His interdisciplinary activities comprise scientific, artistic as well as literary, photographic, graphic, plastic, and digital works. As theoretician and curator, he was Chief Curator of the Neue Galerie, Graz, Professor at the Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, as well as the curator/commissioner for the Austrian pavillon of the Venice Biennale, and director of the Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt (1989–94). He has also been the artistic director of Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria. Since 1999, he has been chairman of the ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe (for more information: http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/e/). His many exhibitions curated and publications edited include "Making Things Public" (with Bruno Latour, 2005) and "Future Cinema" (with Jeffrey Shaw, 2002).
Beginning with work in the tradition of visual poetry, Weibel produced «media-based literature» in the form of paper, photographic and object poems, body texts and material poetry, text objects and video texts. Conceptual works and actions followed, together with media analyses employing the media under scrutiny, initial TV experiments on Austria's ORF, and later numerous installations deploying film and video. The publication of candid sexual representations in a black book on Viennese Actionism led to a lawsuit against its publishers Valie Export and Peter Weibel in 1970. Both artists continued to support each other's projects into the late 1970s, with Weibel writing the screenplays for Export's films «Unsichtbare Gegner» («Invisible Opponents»), 1977, and «Menschenfrauen» («Humanwomen»), 1979. His subjects are less body-oriented, however, and deliver from a media-specific and semiological viewpoint socially critical analyses of systems and machines like film, television, and the visual arts. Weibel was an early and eloquent champion of a theory of media and communication, which he repeatedly applied in investigating the inherent laws and mechanisms of the various media.
This program was made possible in part through the generous sponsorship of the Society of Friends of the Slought Foundation and Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Tel Aviv.
Media files on the Slought.org website are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.
MLA Style:
Peter Weibel. "Rewriting History." Slought Foundation Online Content. [04 January 2010;
Accessed 8 February 2012]. <http://slought.org/content/11444/>.
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