Peter Weibel

(Odessa, Ukraine, 1944)

Conceptual artist and art theorist. He has been a professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and director of the digital arts laboratory at New York University in Buffalo. He has been artistic director of the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville and curator of the Austrian pavilions of the Venice Biennale. He is president of the ZKM (Karlsruhe Center for Media Art and Technology).

He has curated the banquet_metabolism and communication project that included exhibitions, workshops, round tables and interventions in public spaces. Metabolism was the material and metaphorical element of reflection to establish correlations between biology and information sciences.