Peter Weibel

Observing Observation: Uncertainty, 1973

Three video cameras and monitors are arranged in a circle in the room. Facing towards the center, the cameras and monitors are switched in such a way that the spectator who enters the circle can constantly observe himself, though only from the back. As Peter Weibel writes: "Enclosed in a room, each point in that room is its own prison warder, the perspective is his deadly fate." Peter Weibel in Mediendichtung. Protokolle, Volume/set 1982, vienna and Munich, p.118
The Spectator is a prisoner of perspective and thus a prisoner of a heteronymous access to reality.

Margit Rosen

From Book : T.Y. Levin, U. Frohne, P. Weibel, 2002, [CTRL] SPACE Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother, ZKM Center for the Art and Media, Karlshruhe, Germany; and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, p.74.

Rewriter, 1964-1975