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With the installation Waypointing Weibel's Vienna,
Thomas Fürstner and Peter Weibel create the vision of mobile
cinematographic communication. The visitor of the exhibition takes
the position of a walker, strolling through Vienna. Their tour follows
the important movements and junctions in the biography of Peter
Weibel. The walker bears a portable communication-device that combines
several functions. The »digital street device« integrates
telephone, computer, panoramic-camera and a global positioning system
[GPS]. Via the GPS, a localization-system supported by satellite,
the walker receives historic information about the place he is standing
in at the moment. The information appears as moving and still archive-images
on his small monitor-display. The visitor sees the panoramic-images
and historic information from the perspective of the promenador
on a big screen in the exhibition space.
The installation refers to the current development of the communication
and entertainment industry: »the convergence of the media«,
meaning the integration of all kinds of information-storage and
transfer to a device. These personal experience-devices in 2003
will perhaps be used by more than 55 miollion Europeans. With this
work, Tom Fürstner and Peter Weibel bring to mind the aesthetic
and functional possibilities of new technologies.
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