Prof. Dr. Peter Weibel, Director ZKM Karlsruhe
 

The director of the ZKM (Center for Art and Media) Karlsruhe will speak on the subject of “Science and/or as Art”. The renowned artist, exhibition curator, art and media theorist will outline a cultural history of the relationship between science and art: from Pythagoras to Feyerabend, from the Artes Liberales to the Artes Mechanicae, from kinetics to cybernetics, from algorithms to interactivity.

Peter Weibel, born in Odessa in 1944, studied literature, film, mathematics, medicine and philosophy in Vienna and Paris. Weibel has been a professor of visual media design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna since 1984. From 1984 to 1989 he taught at the Center for Media Study at the State University of New York at Buffalo/New York. He was artistic director of Ars Electronica Linz from 1986 to 1999. From 1989 to 1994, he headed the Institute for New Media at the Städelschule in Frankfurt/Main, which he founded. From 1993 to 1999, he curated the Austrian pavilion at the Venice Biennale. In 1993, he was appointed artistic director of the Neue Galerie at the Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz. Since January 1999, Weibel has been director of the ZKM in Karlsruhe. He is also the editor and author of numerous books and catalogs.

The Edith Russ House for Media Art is organizing the interdisciplinary discussion series Bilderwelten & Wissenswelten. Art and Science in Dialogue with the support of the Landessparkasse zu Oldenburg. The series aims to reflect on the relationship between art and science. Renowned speakers will examine how the visual worlds and knowledge worlds of art and science influence each other. The question arises as to whether the renewed interaction between media, art and science since the 1990s provides new, up-to-date insights for both science and art. After an introductory cultural history, media artists, media theorists, natural scientists and economists present their spectrum of experiences from science, art and research.

Moderation: Christian Katti, humanities scholar

Admission is free.