  thumb|300px|peter weibel peter weibel (; born 5 march 1944 in odessa, ussr) is an austrian artist, curator and theoretician. ==biography== raised in upper austria he started to study french and cinematography in paris. in 1964 he began to study medicine in vienna, but changed soon to mathematics, with an emphasis on logic. peter weibelâs oeuvre belong to the following categories: conceptual art, performance, experimental film, video art and computer art. starting from semiotic and linguistic reflections (austin, jakobson, peirce, wittgenstein, ...) from 1965, peter weibel developed an artistic language, which led him from experimental literature to performance. in his performative actions, he has explored not only the "media" language and body, but also film, video, audiotape and interactive electronic environments. critically he analyzed their function for the construction of reality. besides taking part in happenings with members of the vienna actionism, he developed from 1967 (together with valie export, ernst schmidt jr. and hans scheugl) an "expanded cinema". it is inspired by the american expanded cinema and reflects the ideological and technological conditions of cinematic representation. peter weibel elaborated these reflections, from 1969, in his video tapes and installations. with his television action "tv und vt works", which was broadcast by the austrian television (orf) in 1972, he transcended the borders of the gallery space and queried video technology in its application as a mass medium. peter weibel followed his artistic aims using a large variety of materials, forms and techniques: text, sculpture, installation, film and video. in 1978 he turned to music. together with loys egg, he founded the band "hotel morphila orchester" (orchestra). in the mid-1980s, he explored the possibilities of computer-aided video processing. beginning of the 1990s he realized interactive computer-based installations. here again he addressed the relation between media and the construction of reality. in his lectures and articles, weibel commented on contemporary art, media history, media theory, film, video art and philosophy. as theoretician and curator, he pleaded for a form of art and art history that includes history of technology and history of science. in his function as a university professor and director of institutions like the ars electronica, linz, the institute for new media in frankfurt and the [[zentrum fÃ¼r kunst und medientechnologie|zkm &#124; center 
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