Peter Weibel Knihy

Od chvíle, kdy se elektřina stala všudypřítomnou, jsou umělci fascinováni širokou škálou možností, jak ji využít ve své umělecké tvorbě. Katalog Kinetismus:100 let elektřiny v umění, který doprovází úvodní výstavu v Kunsthalle Praha, zkoumá, jak elektřina od roku 1920 do současnosti proměnila uměleckou praxi. Věnuje se kinematografii, zvuku, kinetickým mechanickým sochám, počítačovému umění i imerzivním instalacím. Historická perspektiva ještě podtrhuje skutečnost, že se elektřina se svými rozmanitými způsoby využití - od umělého osvětlení po výpočetní techniku - stala charakteristickým prvkem naší společnosti. Kinetismus: 100 let elektřiny v umění obsahuje esej Petera Weibela, autora koncepce výstavy, čtyři tematické kapitoly napsané spolu-kurátorkou Lívií Nolasco-Rózsás a také popisy a reprodukce klíčových uměleckých děl tvůrců, jako jsou Mary Ellen Bute, William Kentridge, Christina Kubish, Zdeněk Pešánek, Anna Ridler, Nicolas Schöffer, Jeffrey Shaw, Takis, Steina a Woody Vasulka. Koncepce / redakce: Peter Weibel a Christelle Havranek. Texty: Václav Hájek, Jiří Hájek, Judith Bihr, Anne-Laure Chamboissier, Dávid Fehér, George Fifield, Jeanpaul Goergen, Idis Hartmann, Christelle Havranek, Anett Holzheid, Daniel Irrgang, Toby Kamps, Paul Kenig, Clara Kim, Pelin Kivrak, Anna Kodl, Rosemary Lee, Sandra Naumann, Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás, Márton Orosz, Andres Pardey, Sylva Poláková, Adriana Prodeus, Guillaume Richard, Barbora Ropková, Clara Runge, Leila Topić, Miloš Vojtěchovský, Peter Weibel, Siegfried Zielinski

This book is the first comprehensive, indeed encyclopedic, show of artists' engagement with artificial light since the exhibition KUNSTLICHTKUNST (1966) in the Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Many artistic statements are releaved, and signal works of many creators of Light Art that have been forgotten are presented

The kinetic century, from Takis to Kentridge Artists have long been fascinated by the creative possibilities of electricity. This catalog gathers works from 1920 to the present, in video, sound, mechanical sculpture and computer-based art by Mary Ellen Bute, William Kentridge, Christina Kubisch, Zdenek Pešánek, Anna Ridler, Takis, Steina, Woody Vasulka and others.

A guide to idioms used in Spanish and English. It is filled with 4,000 idioms arranged according to Spanish keywords; 1,800 Spanish keywords and their English equivalents; 1,800 example sentences for guidance in usage; 8,000 matching English expressions; and an English-Spanish Index.

On the legacy of Xenakis’ innovations in music notation for contemporary composersTrained in mechanical engineering, Greek-French composer Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) transformed mathematical models into architectonic musical entities.In the late 1970s Xenakis developed a digital apparatus that rendered waveforms drawn on a tablet as musical compositions. The device was called UPIC, or Unité Polyagogique Informatique du CEMAMu, named for the French contemporary music research institute that Xenakis had helped found a decade earlier. The device proved to be an essential tool for the development of contemporary music―a version of the software is still used by today’s composers.Featuring archival materials, this book examines the origins of Xenakis’ UPIC. It also serves as a compositional tool: embedded QR codes allow readers to create their own sound-images from UPIC compositions.

Combining traditional film technologies and computerized military programs for tracking, identifying, and targeting, Jordan Crandall's seven-part video installation Drive depicts movement through means that go miles beyond the conventions of cinema. In Drive, as elsewhere today, bodies and physical movements are no longer objects of representation, but collated and processed computer data from thermal imaging machines and night vision optical devices. Movements are no longer depicted; they are tracked. Drive observes the new human relationships that develop through a structure otherwise associated with a hunter observing his prey. Also included in this volume are Crandall's collected projects and writings.

An investigation of the consequences of a society becoming inhabitants of information space explains how it is radically altering the public sphere, the private sphere, and the possibilities of creativity in the networked sphere. Original.

The global institutionalization of contemporary art is still in its early stages. Although there has been a rise in global art production and the number of biennials, contemporary art struggles to establish itself in museums outside the West, which may influence the future of these institutions. While migration is a significant issue for artists, public museums face the challenges posed by globalization. This book focuses on the reciprocal relationship between contemporary non-Western art and local museums worldwide. It features a collection of essays from art critics, anthropologists, and museum curators who explore the evolving identity of museums from diverse perspectives. The critical essays were developed for two international conferences, alongside selected texts that provide insightful analyses of the current landscape. PETER WEIBEL, an internationally recognized media and conceptual artist, curator, and theorist, has been influential since the 1960s, viewing artistic creativity as an open-ended endeavor. He served as the head of ZKM, Karlsruhe until 2020 and has been the director of the Peter Weibel Research Institute for Digital Culture at the Universität für angewandte Kunst in Vienna since 2017.

Throughout the history of cinema, a radical avant-garde has existed on the fringes of the film industry. A great deal of research has focused on the pre- and early history of cinema, but there has been little speculation about a future cinema incorporating new electronic media. Electronic media have not only fundamentally transformed cinema but have altered its role as a witness to reality by rendering "realities" not necessarily linked to documentation, by engineering environments that incorporate audiences as participants, and by creating event-worlds that mix realities and narratives in forms not possible in traditional cinema. This hybrid cinema melds montage, traditional cinema, experimental literature, television, video, and the net. The new cinematic forms suggest that traditional cinema no longer has the capacity to represent events that are themselves complex configurations of experience, interpretation, and interaction.This book, which accompanies an exhibition organized by the ZKM Institute for Visual Media, explores the history and significance of pre-cinema and of early experimental cinema, as well as the development of the unique theaters in which "immersion" evolved. Drawing on a broad range of scholarship, it examines the shift from monolithic Hollywood spectacles to works probing the possibilities of interactive, performative, and net-based cinemas. The post-cinematic condition, the book shows, has long roots in artistic practice and influences every channel of communication.