Peter Weibel

Born: 1944-03-05

Birthplace: Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]

Biography

Peter Weibel (Austrian German: [ˈvaɪbl], German: [ˈvaɪbəl]; 5 March 1944 – 1 March 2023) was an Austrian post-conceptual artist, curator, and new media theoretician. He started out in 1964 as a visual poet, then later moved from the page to the screen within the sense of post-structuralist methodology. His work includes virtual reality and other digital art forms. From 1999 he was the director of the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe.