Ars Electronica Festival · 1993
Virtuelle Welten
by Peter Weibel
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 1993
“Virtuelle Welten” by Peter Weibel received a Honorary Mention in the Interactive Art category of the Prix Ars Electronica 1993. Peter Weibel has 2 more works in this atlas.
The visitor is received into a completely dark, acute-angled triangular space of aluminium plates on a steel-girder construction. The only light source is a 5 m by 3.75 m (16ft by 12 ft) screen which is the transparent side of a real environment which will present other, virtual worlds.
About Peter Weibel
Peter Weibel (A), born 1945, founding director of the Institute for New Media in Frankfurt/Main. Professor at the College of Applied Art in Vienna since 1985.
Programme information from Prix Ars Electronica Archive. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.