Overview of Virgil Widrich's projects

The princely court of Salzburg – a centre of European musical culture 1587 – 1807
19.7.2020 to 7.3.2021, DomQuartier Salzburg
Artistic direction: Virgil Widrich, exhibition design: Hans Kudlich

Artistic director of the exhibition.

Text contribution "Images between Digital Realism and Analog Believability" by Virgil Widrich in: Expanded Animation – Mapping to Unlimited Landscape

An opera by Franz Danksagmüller for a singer, viola, live electronics, two virtual singers and a digital stage design. Stage design and film direction: Virgil Widrich. Projections and lighting design: Oleg Prodeus.

On two corresponding screens the video installation "Teleplasmatic Views of Vienna" deconstructs and reinterprets Vienna's Stephansplatz.

Exhibition on the research project on contexts of meaning through categorization and indexation.

A space time cut through cinema. 20 years after Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich used this film technique for the first time in a short film ("tx-transform", 1998), they again deal with the question of which previously unseen world arises when space and time are interchanged, aptly in a cinema and at full 360°. Winner of 21 international film awards!

A black-and-white film that lets you see colors. Winner of 12 international film awards!

Text contribution in "The Future of Museums", edided by Gerald Bast, Elias G. Carayannis and David F. J. Campbell: "Transforming Education and Labor in a Museum as a Model of the Future: Vacancies in the Future Museum".

Video installation in an endless loop in the former Sophienspital for the Vienna Design Week 2018.

The interactive installation "tx-mirror" is a magical mirror with a camera: one can look at oneself and explore the laws of a universe in which time and space have been reversed.

Exhibition in Salzburg about central stages in the life of the Trapp family, known from "The Sound of Music".

Animated film, in development for 2020+

"Be my rebel", the first collaboration of the two music legends Nena and Dave Stewart, premiered at Nenas 40^th anniversary on stage. Winner of 46 international film awards!

Live mix of pictures, accompanied by the live music performance of the Maltese artist Sonitus Eco.

The exhibition "Aesthetics of change: 150 Years of the University of Applied Arts Vienna" in two parts casts a glance back onto 150 years of the University’s history, while at the same time daring to look into the future.

The installation “Memory Palace” reflects the house from the film "Night of a 1000 Hours" which has been built using rear projections, backdrops, props, costumes and light and brought to life around the actors for the film.

Media installation as part of the exhibition "ANALOG_DIGITAL. Media (Ex)changes" at METRO Kinokulturhaus.

On the occasion of the exhibition "Analog_Digital. Media (Ex)Changes" the Filmarchiv Austria is showing a fascinating cross section of national and international analogue/digital cinema in a retrospective curated by Virgil Widrich.

Film director and multimedia artist Virgil Widrich transforms the strongroom of a former bank into a surface for projections.

Design and implementation of a faceted display window collage.

Annual exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Design and implementation of the anniversary event.

Exhibition of the classes Art & Science and Site-Specific Art  in cooperation with CERN, art@CMS and HEPHY.

Research project on contexts of meaning through categorization and indexation.

A family, a night, a murder and a forbidden passion: When the Ullich family meets and their deceased ancestors appear, the events in their Viennese palace turn over.

A promotional film for Vienna, awarded with 24 international awards or honorary mentions.

Annual exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

 Annual exhibition of Art & Science on the topic "Information through Sound".

In his "biographical fragments for the home and village", Hans Widrich (born 1936) describes his life.

The large-scale media installation "Figaro Parallelo" allows a comparison of recent productions of "The Marriage of Figaro".

Media installation for the exhibition "A Rush of Color – Masterpieces of German Expressionism" at the Leopold Museum Vienna.

Annual exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Virgil Widrich's short film is a 7-minute 3D-remix of feature films from the 1950s and 60s which were projected on glass and photographed in 3D. Winner of 13 international film awards!

The European Union (Horizon 2020) funded project AXIOM develops the first open source film camera.

The consortium of checkpointmedia Multimediaproduktionen AG / OMS Objektmanagement Service GmbH was commissioned in June 2013 as sole contractor for the design, construction and furnishing of the new museum.

The Department of Art & Science at the University of Applied Arts is conducting the research project "The Future of the Control Room".

Annual exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Exhibition and transdisciplinary pieces in 3 acts by Art & Science students at the University of Applied Arts at University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU).

An almost 3-minute animated film marks the 50th anniversary of Silhouette International Schmied AG, whisking the viewer on a rousing journey through the history of the world’s leading brand in light eyewear. The film depicts each decadal chapter in the company’s history using a unique graphic style.

An exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna during Vienna Art Week 2013.

checkpointmedia develops and installs a new music workshop with three studios for experimenta Heilbronn.

Annual exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Micro-exhibitions at 6 locations by students of Art & Science at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

"Eine kleine Haus- und Familiengeschichte" by Hans Widrich.

A stage musical for one tenor, two dancers and a baroque ensemble, based on the novella "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe.

For the reopening of the world’s largest and oldest collection of meteorites in 2012, the vast collection of extraordinary exhibits is expanded by the skilful inclusion of media stations, interactive hands-on stations and animations.

On the occasion of the 50th Viennale, ORF Kultur presents treasures of Austrian avant-garde film from five generations. The night of Austrian avant-garde film is presented by filmmaker Virgil Widrich.

Annual exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Visitor Centre "Erste Campus-Schauplatz" about the future headquarters of Erste Group on the site of the former Vienna South Railway Station.

Research project by Roman Kirschner on materials as transmitters of messages.

Mixing realities and mediating myths & methods. Editors: Valerie Deifel, Bernd Kräftner, Virgil Widrich

Exhibition of the University of Applied Arts/Art & Science at the Museum of Natural History Vienna on the occasion of the Vienna Art Week 2011.

Besides an overview of projects carried out by checkpointmedia between 2001 and 2011, the book "Presentation and New Media – 10 Years checkpointmedia: Concepts, Paths, Visions" contains essays by leading contemporary protagonists on the current discourse in the media, worlds of experience, communication and internet sectors.

Annual exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

A found footage film collage about the destructive triangle between a man, a woman, and her car.

Annual exhibition of the students of the Master course "Art & Science Visualization" at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

The history of the Salzburg Festival as a accessible spatial sculpture with different layers of mediation in the Salzburg Museum.

Annual exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

A surreal montage of science fiction films about the public image oft the robot.

The history of Linz was worked out on the basis of different, partly very personal perspectives to a house with many rooms.

Annual exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Exhibition of the Department of Digital Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna at Freiraum/quartier21 Vienna.

Catalogue for the exhibition of the department "Digital Art" at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in the Freiraum/quartier 21 Vienna.

An animated film about the past, present and future of Erste Bank.

Annual exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

The corporate museum designed by checkpointmedia presents 50 years of Krones' history and technical developments.

In the course of the redesign of the Swarovski Crystal Worlds, further attractions attracting the public were conceived and implemented in 2007.

Head of the Master course "Art & Science" at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Between 2002 and 2005 the filmmakers Elke Groen and Ina Ivanceanu carried out numerous interviews in three Chinese villages documenting everyday life – without any censorship whatsoever.

Since 27 January 2006 (Mozart's 250th birthday), this fully refurbished house containing Mozart's former apartment, the only one of his Viennese residences still in existence today, has paid homage to the life and work of the musical genius.

Five media stations equipped with high-format 30-inch screens enable visitors to call up texts, pictures, graphics, animation films and short video clips.

The media stations in the visitor centre of the Austrian Parliament serve to impart knowledge and are integrated into the architecture.

Supplemented by an interactive module, the original Sattler-Panorama is now once again open to the public at the Salzburg Museum

The exhibition Hans Moser on the popular Austrian actor and the virtual national institution was one of the most successful exhibitions ever held in the Austrian Theatre Museum.

The Crystal Worlds, designed by André Heller in Wattens, Tyrol, was opened in 1995 for Swarovski's 100th anniversary. Since then it has been continually expanded and further attractions have been added.

Extensive multimedia planning and implementation of Red Bull Hangar-7 at Salzburg Airport.

For the exhibition "Archbishop Paris Lodron (1619-1653), Statesman between War and Peace" at the Salzburg Dommuseum, checkpointmedia designed and installed a complex projection installation and an information display for the entrance hall of the Salzburg Dommuseum.

"Fast Film" is an animated homage to motion pictures, hand-made by folding 65,000 print outs of film frames into three-dimensional objects. The film won 36 international awards.

In August 2001 Amour Fou Filmproduktionen GmbH is founded, together with Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Alexander Ivanceanu and the Wiener Volksbildungsverein/Polyfilm.

The multimedia station "Historical Panorama" portrays their history using video animations and audio commentaries in four languages; the interactive "Language Atlas"offers entertaining insights into the Ladin language.

checkpointmedia was responsible for developing the majority of the media stations and the hardware and software.

Interviews with Bady Minck, Ruth Beckermann, Hans Hurch, Peter Tscherkassky, Florian Flicker, Alexander Ivanceanu, Michael Kreihsl and Wolfgang Lehner about "left" and "right" in film and politics.

As one of the most successful representatives of "Creative Industries Vienna/Austria," checkpointmedia acts as an interface between arts/culture and the business world.

The story of a man who copies himself until he fills up the entire world. The film won 39 international awards and was nominated for the Oscar 2001 (best short film).

This automat, based on the theory of relativity, allows viewers for the first time to modify their perception of the familiar relation between space and time by experiencing time in a transverse flow to their spatial movements.

A CD-ROM as a service portfolio of the multimedia network, which later became checkpointmedia.

Virgil Widrich's first feature film: A comedy about foreigners in Vienna: Italians, Romanians and people from Lower Austrian.

Cinema spot for internet TV station webfreetv.com, which was shown in November 1999 in 65 Austrian cinemas.

Large-screen projections and video loops, audio stations, interactive mini-cinemas, selectable videos, interactive terminals and Internet research stations enrich and supplement the permanent exhibition.

tx-transform is a film technique that transposes the time axis (t) and one of the space axes (x or y) with one another.

The world-famous Salzburg Festival presents itself and its work on a double CD-ROM for the first time.

The “Maths Trainer” on CD-ROM.

The children's book bestseller "Robbi – a seal pup escapes to the wild beasts" by the Tyrolean Günther Aloys on CD-ROM.

In December 1995 the Diagonale, the festival of Austrian film, takes place for the third and last time in Salzburg.

In December 1994 the Diagonale, the festival of Austrian film, takes place for the second time in Salzburg.

The Diagonale, the festival of Austrian film, takes place for the first time in Salzburg in 1993.

Exhibition by Peter Greenaway on the occasion of the 300 anniversary of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the Vienna Hofburg, the Semper Depot and in the Academy of Fine Arts.

Classic Films, a film distribution company specialising in art films, is founded in May 1987.

A genre cross-over mixing action, horror and science fiction in the past, present and future.

A gigantic insect-like monster destroys the city of Salzburg. An oedipal drama.

Animated film by the then 13-year-old Virgil Widrich about a man and a small worm fleeing environmental destruction.

Documentary about the Carinthian "mirror artist" Arnulf Komposch.

Crime story: A woman is killed in a Restaurant and served to the guests.

Documentary about the old house of the Widrich family.

Documentary about Gusti (Auguste) Kupelwieser (1907-1987), the grandmother of the director.